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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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[–] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 117 points 2 years ago (4 children)

A true pirate shares their booty 🔥🔥

[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 83 points 2 years ago (5 children)

sigh I'll let my wife know...

[–] deathbysnusnu@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago
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[–] vd1n@lemmy.ml 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Well then I guess that makes ya mum a pirate! 🦜🏴‍☠️🍆💦

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

Booty Sweat!

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[–] notepass@feddit.de 90 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

Now if only torrenting wouldn't mean an automatic 500€ invoice from a very specific law firm in my country :(

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 64 points 2 years ago (5 children)

For about 5€ a month you can free yourself from these risks

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[–] narp@feddit.de 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

Alle meine Zuhausis hassen Waldorf Frommer!

[–] notepass@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago

Denen soll ne ente aus'm Arsch kriechen.

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 years ago

Just rent a seedbox.
Torrenting actively from public trackers for 14€ per month and can host the best streaming service right at home.

[–] ImFresh3x 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Real debrid. Torrent to the cloud. Everything becomes available to other users.

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 5redie8 8 points 2 years ago

Funny how that works

[–] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd love to find a good alternative to Rarbg, truly the end of an era

[–] jayandp 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

TorrentGalaxy is the closest I've found so far.

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[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

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.

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[–] worsedoughnut@lemdro.id 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

My crowning achievement is still seeding a 2.429TB torrent up to a 1.0 ratio, took me about 7 and a half months.

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[–] BillionsMustSeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not from the same source, but I'm in the middle of getting a 5GB file that took me five days so far and will take another five to complete. After that, I think I will keep sharing for as long as possible this one, since I see a lot of peers every day, even though there's only one seeder, from which I'm currently downloading at 10Kbps (and not because of my bandwidth, I think it's theirs that's a bit on the slow side).

I have slow upload, but once there are two seeds things should get better for all other peers, compared to now haha

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I always am going crazy seeing a 1mib/s upload divided by 10 peers while I am sitting here with a gig symmetric line ready to satisfy all within a minute (if their pipes allow it).
JUST GIVE ME THE DAMN BANDWIDTH and I shall satisfy everyone and their dog for a 100 ratio...

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[–] Yoz@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not all heros wear capes

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago

Let me throw my seedbox into the ring. :)

[–] ari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fun fact: This movie is on the 4k movies google drive

[–] oneshibbyguy@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (6 children)

What Google drive are you talking about

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[–] vd1n@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Is quality worth the 50gb?

I don't have any fancy speakers or monitor...

[–] acedelgado@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] JasSmith@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

They look amazing on a big TV with a nice sound system. If it’s just for watching on your computer I would recommend the 2GB RARBG releases.

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[–] Zeroxxx@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I seed anime OSTs, plenty enough and rare collections.

If you folks happen to download that category, chances are I am one of your sources 🤣

[–] figaro@lemdro.id 7 points 2 years ago

Thanks friend! You're doing the work of Kamisama

[–] B3_CHAD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 years ago

Thank you sailor.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] transistor@lemdro.id 10 points 2 years ago

Excellent work!

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 9 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] nickiam2@aussie.zone 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

And this is why I backup all the torrents I download. If I lose the drive, they might not be seeded anymore and I won't be able to re-download everything. There's stuff in my collection that was hard to find 5 years ago.

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[–] skadden@ctrlaltelite.xyz 9 points 2 years ago

I pretty much always leave stuff seeding once I get it these days. Ever since I bumped the disk space on my NAS it made it a lot easier to leave stuff instead of jockeying for space on disk.

My higher ratio items are all old shits like You Got Served lmao

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

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

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