A few months ago I grabbed this torrent from rarbg, and it took weeks to download. Often going days with no seeders.
I finally got it, and decided I’d seed beyond my usual 2x to help others get this. Then rarbg went under, and now I think I’ll just keep this one going.
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God, back in uni with free electricity and internet in the dorms, we managed to seed over a terabyte of data before IT got suspicious and turned off that port. Then we seeded over slower wifi until they turned the port back on next semester, haha. Good times.
That was where we learned that the pirated copies of stuff were easier to find, higher quality, and worked on hardware that websites declared “too old” to stream their content. It all started when we had a bunch of people over to watch a movie, and Amazon refused to play it on older hardware. It instantly converted half a dozen people to piracy, lol.
Like Gabe Newell once said, piracy is a service problem.
The last two things I pirated were No One Lives Forever, a game that’s completely delisted on all storefronts, and Ratchet & Clank, because Sony can’t figure out how to add the PS2 versions of games to the PS5 and I refuse to stream it (data cap) or lug around my PS3.
Both I would’ve purchased legally had they not made it a pain in the ass.
Funny how that works
Fun fact: This movie is on the 4k movies google drive
A true pirate shares their booty 🔥🔥
sigh I’ll let my wife know…
why squirrel though?
Why not squirrel?
Yes?
!squirrel
Well then I guess that makes ya mum a pirate! 🦜🏴☠️🍆💦
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I did this with the That 70s show FGT torrents. Nobody seeds older media anymore, so each one had/has a >30 ratio on the 5GB-per-season BDrips
I wish for low-risk older media people would just keep the seed open forever. Very little bandwidth will be taken up but people will have it there if they want to go back and watch it.
My crowning achievement is still seeding a 2.429TB torrent up to a 1.0 ratio, took me about 7 and a half months.
What’s inside a 2.4TB torrent? 🤔
It was a 4K porn siterip.
Man of culture I see
Wonderful! I wish you both a happy relationship! Sounds like you’ve got your work cut out for you 😊👌
In my defense I was really only trying to find a handful of specific videos from a certain porn site… But you know how sometimes it’s just easier to grab an entire album or an entire season / boxset of a show, than it is to find a specific song / episode in high quality? Well that same rules applies to porn, and since I had no issue with space (I have a very large NAS) I just grabbed the whole siterip since it actually had a decent number of seeds lol
I know exactly what you mean. No defence need my friend, but maybe some lotion 😊💦 #staysafe
What was the torrent? That’s huge.
The entire run of Good Housekeeping magazine
Now if only torrenting wouldn’t mean an automatic 500€ invoice from a very specific law firm in my country :(
For about 5€ a month you can free yourself from these risks
Alle meine Zuhausis hassen Waldorf Frommer!
can you come back and tag this post with the correct language? would be neat
I’m trying but the save button just loops endlessly…
What difference does it make? Aren’t you able to see the comment?
It’s not so huge a concern right now, but it lets people that write userscripts write, say, a userscript to automatically translate a post into your preferred language from the post’s language.
Such a thing would be easier if the userscript could trust that a post is set to the language it’s written in.
This load circle thing is it implicitly failing due to you not having selected Deutsch as one of your languages in your profile (most likely).
There are other things it could be as well.
Interesting! I tried it a bit more:
- I had “Undetermined”, “Deutsch” and “English” selected in my profile.
- I was able to set the comment to “Undetermined”, but then still not able to set it to “Deutsch” (back to “English”, worked though)
- Changing the word “homie” didn’t make a difference
- Other comments set to “Undetermined” were able to switch to “Deutsch”
- Other comments set to “English” (that were actually written in english) were able to switch to “Deutsch”
Seems like it’s a problem with this comment in particular, but I can’t figure out why!
Edit: I found another comment set to “Deutsch”, written in german, that can’t be changed no matter what.
I only really write in one language so I don’t have this problem, I just default to English.
But it’s interesting that some posts are hard to change.
If you want a year subscription to Speedify, let me know. I got a year in a Humble Bundle that I never used because I have a lifetime subscription to Windscribe. Speaking of which, Windscribe allows 10GB of free transfers each month. Not much but it will get you a few movies or audio books.
sounds like pure intimidation to me.
1/ one could have “never received this letter”
2/ one could decide not to pay, and then what? will they go to court? based on what evidence?
3/ if it ever goes to court, “i don’t know, i wasnt even home that day” should always work no?
i don’t understand while in some countries (actually only one that i know of, Germany) people seem to be terrified by this lawyer’s spam…
Oh no it isn’t. Walldorf Frommer is well known to send “Unterlassungerklärungen” which you have to answer. It will go to court if you do not work against this. You normally need your own lawyer to defuse what they send you.
Also, if you are in court, there is the concept of “Störerhaftung” which is a wet dream for everyone suing you for copyright infringement. They will have your IP and the time, thus your address. Now you either have to name someone who did do it, or if you can’t you will automatically be liable.
This isn’t any intimidation, it is one company using the laws in place here to fuck you majorly over. There are a lot of stories about this and if you seed on any public tracker you WILL get a letter.
How effective are VPNs at preventing this? I’ve heard it recommended the most as a counter measure.
VPN’s solve this problem completely. This law firm looks at the IP’s of seeders and if they are german they request the personal details from the respective ISP.
If it’s an IP of a (reputable) VPN they don’t achieve anything and if it’s not a german IP they can’t do anything anyway.
They mostly go for the easy targets since that’s their easy business.
Real debrid. Torrent to the cloud. Everything becomes available to other users.
The only torrent I ever removed my seed cap for was a set of DVD-audio ISOs. I had it downloading for months, but it never got above 5%. Eventually I found the same disc images on another site, so I dropped them in the download folder and rechecked the torrent, which came back 97% complete. The only files missing were box art scans and NFOs. I let that thing seed for about five months.
Thank you sailor.
The only time I seed, really. If there’s only like 2 or 3 seeders and they have shit connections, I’ll seed for a while. Not that my upload speed is any good…
But on a thing with thousands of seeders and maybe 20 leeches? Why? 🤷🏻♂️
When rarbg went down I immediately went and for any torrent I still had loaded in my client I quadrupled my normal ratio (3.5 -> 12.00). Then I also just increased my ratio generally.
I wish I had more disk space to keep things going even longer, but I really gotta cycle stuff out unfortunately.
When rarbg went down I waited a couple weeks for straghlers then stopped seeding all rarbg torrents. Is there a reason to? How will people even find these torrents?
rarbg.best
Had that with a few movies recently which took about a week to download. I removed my limits for those, I’m only at a ratio of 5 or smth on those tho. Still, it’s honest work
Is quality worth the 50gb?
I don’t have any fancy speakers or monitor…
My very fancy sweet spot is somewhere between 10-20gb 1080p
My alright sweet spot is around 7-10gb 1080p.Higher is too much in disk space for me.
At 80+Gb that means it’s a straight blu-ray rip without being recompressed at all, which is perfect if you have a nice home theater system. You definitely notice the difference then. But if you’re just watching on an average monitor with headphones or such, then you’re honestly better off finding a smaller version that someone properly compressed down a bit.
Why limit the time?
Keeping niche torrents alive for possible years if you’re not deleting it might safe someones day.
I don’t have unlimited storage…
Yeah, that’s why i wrote until you delete it?
I rather just stick to Real-Debrid, and never worry about seeds nor seeding ever again. Cached torrents are the future!
Since Real-Debrid has a copy of the torrent’s data, does it do any seeding?
Not as far as I’m aware, but the way I justify it is that the more people who are using a Debrid service, the less strain it puts on torrents because of fewer leechers. Real-Debrid only needs to download the file once, and then every subscriber has immediate access to it.
You can always just use a seedbox instead. The main reason why I use Debrid is because it allows me to stream any show or movie I want instantly to my TV, without having to wait, the instant downloads for games & software is just an added bonus. So for me it’s worth the tradeoff of not being able to do my rightful duty and seed.
Paying for piracy is stupid
Disagree. I use a paid streaming service that’s every bit as convenient as Netflix, but has a library consisting of almost anything you could possibly think of. No need to hope somebody’s seeding it, or go searching through dozens of different sites. It’s one super easy go-to source that not only has the content, but remembers where you left off, allows user profiles, etc. That convenience is worth paying for.
Unless it was something really obscure I never had problems finding seeders.
I use the search engine function inside qBitTorrent and I sort the results descending by the number of seeders. To enable it go to View > Search Engine (iirc) and follow these simple instructions.
qBitTorrent also has a feature that lets you download a torrent in order of their pieces, and also download the first and last piece first, which is basically streaming. No need to wait for the download to finish first.
If needed, VLC has a built-in plugin called VLsub which lets you find and automatically load subtitles for almost anything. To enable it go to View > VLSub.
qBitTorrent + VLC is my Netflix. Never asked me a cent, but to me they are priceless and more convenient than any subscription service.
On Android I use LibreTorrent + VLC.
Seems pretty on-brand to me, considering what the general consensus of pirates has always been: it’s not about unwillingness to pay, it’s about unwillingness to deal with bullshit.
