Keep searching , never ever give up .
I usually give up or find a free alternative. Typically, if something is available at a good price I won’t bother trying to get it free to begin with.
It is very infrequent that I find myself needing a form of entertainment. Generally, when I am unable to find it on the high seas, it is entirely unobtainable through legal channels.
It is far more frequent that I find myself purchasing a thing I have previously pirated.
The latter, because I don’t have money
Depends on how expensive it is, what kind of license the paid version has, how willing I am to support the creator. Music I’ll try and get from bandcamp or failing that an actual cd from their site of I really must. TV I’ll usually just look harder and settle for a worse quality than I’d prefer.
If something is worth paying for I just do that up-front. (Outside of some exceptions where I actively don’t want to support the creator or license holder)
During college, I got all my books online Zlib or LibGen and the small amount of times i couldn’t find any I’d pay someone who had a PDF copy as my last ditch effort.
I give up on having that thing. I’m unemployed, I don’t have any income at all. When I have a well paying job though I’d rather just pay, there are a lot of people I would like to support.
You either die a leecher or live long enough to become the seeder
Take it as a challenge and waste inordinate amounts of time finding it ‘free’!
Torrent stuck at 99.9% :/
The only seed has 99.9% availability, I am doubting anyone actually has 100%.
have you tried staring at the torrent? if it doesnt work try staring longer
I stared at it as if it were scp-173, nothing happened.
Maybe I need stare at SCP-96 and use it as the fuel for my modem instead.
There’s also a chance that the seeder finished the download but their software didn’t actually finished processing the files. Sometimes just copying the content to another location (to be safe) and renaming the “part” files to its intended file extension is all you need to do.
I have a funny storry:
there is a book I really wanted to read. It is an old af psychology science book. There is no pirated version of it anywhere.
I found one copy of it on the used market and bought it because the price was ok.
At home, I open it up and see that THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTER WAS CUT OUT!!! Literally there were the ends of the pages still bound with strings and you can see a wavy scalpel cut where the rest of the page would be.
Thats the physical equivalent of an incomplete torrent. Felt so bad.
Who would do this 😭
Before it was sold, it was at a university library. The uni I went to had an open library, so anybody could come in. So either a student or somebody from the public, I guess.
A madman.
Are you on audibookbay?
Yes. Only one seed, its 99.9% availability.
I can technically still listen to most of it, but the missing 0.01% triggers me for some reason.
How long has it been on 99.9%? Still a chance you just need to wait for someone to turn on their computer?
If I can’t get an audiobook specifically I usually mark it as a request in the Libby app and hope the library will purchase some licenses. Does your library offer similar services?
To answer your original question though I don’t generally buy stuff I’ve failed to torrent. I intermittently search for it again unless I forget about it though.
Ive had decent luck watching things stuck at 99.9% and having it work fine. Sometimes it’s just an .nfo file or the like thats missing.
Omg I might have done that to some people! Never realised!
Previously I skipped downloadning the “unneccesary” files like .nfo og random .txt, or subtitles for other languages.
Never considered that would result in incomplete downloads for others.
That’s a special kind of pain.
“What do you mean ‘force start’ isn’t doing anything?!?!”
It honestly depends. If it’s something I was on the fence about AND it’s not absurdly overpriced, probably just buy. Or put on a Steam wishlist for some future sale while I keep trying to find elsewhere.
Which torrent is it
Some obscure audiobook. Highly doubt you’d have it.
Like its not one track, its separate files for each chapter, so I can still listen to most of it. only like two chapters have missing bits and is kinda semi-corrupted due to the missing bits.
Kinda feel like getting Audible because then its kinda unlimited access and I’ll binge through a a few books, then cancel when I’m out of content (that I’m interested in) lol. I don’t think I’ll have use for the audio files after listening through it once.
Some obscure audiobook. Highly doubt you’d have it.
I don’t know; I’ve seen the internet pull some weird shit out of its back pocket
Fuck that, don’t use audible! What is the title / author?
Libraries are generally pretty good for books and audiobooks. Get stuff through libby or hoopla.
libro.fm has a nice drm free audio bookshop if you change your mind and do want to keep the audio files afterwards
I have spent 3 hours once to find this with a reasonable resolution, bitrate and subtitles (the subs were the hard part):
Same issue with “FUTURE WAR 198X年”.
In the end I got a copy from archive.org with hardsubbed english subsThat’s how we do it! Take no prisoners and don’t accept substandard booty.
Yarrrr!
Same. For me it’s not about the money but the service and experience. I wouldn’t mind buying a blu-ray and ripping it but I’m not going to subscribe to some service, log in, and use their app to watch a single show or movie because I find that whole process to be a chore.
A chore, frequently an obnoxious experience and lastly a trap.
I don’t want a promise of ‘maybe we will let you view this until we capriciously remove it from our service’. Either I own what I pay for or no deal. I try to heavily prioritize GOG over Steam and while I have some streaming services in my orbit (not my choices) I always have ‘backup’ copies of my own.
I end up sometimes giving up on having the thing. Because sometimes it’s an effect of just feeling personal greed.
But I will almost never give in and pay for the thing. Some things out there, aren’t worth the price and even if the price was right, it’s not worth the support.
Like Microsoft, I’ve not paid for a single Windows OS in my entire life. I’ve always gotten Windows second hand or buying machines off from people who happen to have the latest Windows on it.
Adobe, haven’t paid a single penny for their Photoshop program, kept pirating.
Part of pirating is just wheeling and patience. You will eventually, one day, get what you seek.
Windows can be activated via the command line
It’s never really about the price, it’s about the convenience.
Yeah, sometimes I go so far to buy a game on Steam that got given away for free by Epic. EGS has the tendency to log me out all the time (maybe too many login across a bunch of devices) which annoys the heck out of me.
I agree, I choose the option that gives me the best experience. That is normally an unofficial option. For instance, I want to choose the tv shows accessible for my daughter. I want her to have access to tv shows from all over the world. There is no official service that offers that.
When I was in college, often yes, as the “free” thing was typically a textbook I needed to actually pass a class.
Nowadays? Meh, I probably don’t need that random movie that bad.
Give up. I never buy something I can’t try out. There have been several games that caught my eye but were not available, and so I simply moved on
Give up, it’s all just entertainment for me, so i can just go and be entertained by something else.
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