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Hey all, I know a lot of people are migrating to private torrent sites, and OK, that's a choice. However there are still a lot of people on the public torrents who are just leeching and not seeding.

I have several popular (old/classic) movies in my feed that I have uploaded (literally) 1000x the original and many more in the several hundred times. That's fine, I choose to support the community, but it's pretty depressing when I look at the seeders count and those movies have 2 or 3 other seeders.

This only works if you share. Please don't cut off as soon as you've downloaded.

And on a personal note, if anyone has audio or video files for "Machine Gun Fellatio" also listed as MGF could you please start seeding in particular

"MGF Pack 1"

"MGF+Pack+2"

"MGF+Pack+3"

If I can get the download completed I'll keep them up permanently, but unfortunately as they are obscure/rare I'm getting nowhere.

Rules don't permit me showing the torrent link of course. DM if that would help

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

i seed a lot. but don’t have port forwarding so limited impact sadly

For some reason torrents I downloaded from the archive seem to get the most seeding out of?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Only one of the two sides needs a port open so I'm sure your seeding is contributing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I think also NAT Hole punching is working well for me. To the point I don’t think getting port forwarding would be needed even if I could afford it.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Really! 😅 I hate the elitism, interviews, etc of private trackers, so even though I have the knowledge and seed constanly, I only download from public trackers, in order to seed content that will remain public and accessible by everyone

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I'm on IPT and TL and getting ratio on them took fucking forever. It's basically impossible to do via seeding because everything gets flooded with seeders instantly. Occasionally they have stuff I can't find elsewhere but I mostly use public ones. If I didn't have to maintain a ratio on the private ones to download I would be seeding so much more of their shit. IMO seeding time is a much better metric to use to enforce seeding than ratio.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As a noobie, I've just downloaded a couple things I wanted that were also free leech coincidentally and then just kept seeding them. And now I have 515GB up and 87GB down. I know it's nothing excessive, but I'm really not a hard core torrent user. I just fill in gaps mostly, where I was not able to catch something in the theatre or on a stream.

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[–] atomicbocks 7 points 1 month ago

My, admittedly limited, experience with private trackers is pretty much the only time I have seen power tripping worse than Reddit mods.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also, seed to I2P trackers!! It's now possible with qBitTorrent.

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[–] akilou 26 points 1 month ago

Hey all, I know a lot of people are migrating to private torrent sites, and OK, that's a choice. However there are still a lot of people on the public torrents who are just leeching and not seeding.

Effect. Cause.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I feel you. A few weeks ago I finished a 450GB torrent that had like 5 seeders all super slow and wouldn't even connect most of the time. It took over 7 month in total.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

As another public only user, gotta emphasise this. I'm on a pretty quick fibre connection, so luckily it's not a bother for me to get really good ratios but every little helps folks!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I would love to seed but I can never seem to get my client and network setup to do it with any torrent I've tried. I've attempted everything I can find online, across different ISPs, computer builds, and OS instances. Can't ever seem to get it working between all the different configurations.

Now I'm running a pfSense firewall on a FIOS connection, with Windows 10, and qBittorrent behind Proton VPN. Still haven't been able to get even freeleech torrents to seed. I've tried a lot of clients and ports over the years. I think it may be something I'm doing wrong!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe a dumb question, but have you enabled port forwarding in your torrent client and ensured that the VPN server you are connected to allows port forwarding? Proton has decent documentation on how to do this, but it's not obvious if you didnt already know you needed port forwarding.

This had me tripped up for nearly a full year after I got back into torrenting.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I've seen some people have issues with being able to punch qBittorrent through a VPN so that may be the first place to troubleshoot. Maybe Proton gatekeeps certain traffic? Other than that I can't help, sorry.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What @[email protected] wrote: qBittorrent can pretty easily punch a hole through your router if you can enable UPnP on it. Don't forget to enable it in qBittorrent as well, although I think it's on by default.
If that's not an option, then you might have to spend a bit of time setting up port forwarding manually, which has always been a pain, but once you learn it, it's quite easy.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Issue is that most people can't/don't know how to set up a vpn and a torrent program that will give more than like a 10Kb upload. So even if they aren't trying not to seed, they still aren't by default.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Please note that many countries don't give a fuck about private-use piracy, so in many cases you don't need a VPN.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you have a guide or do you mind explaining the best way to do this?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Once I have a job I'm going to rent a seedbox for public trackers. Fuck DMCA!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

After I've gotten 1gbit fiber I tend to try and hit ratio 1000:1 on anything I seed. Back when I was on xDSL connections before fiber, I tried to hit 1.1:1 because my thinking was if everyone tried to do that, there'd literally never be data loss.
I recently tried getting "The Sinking of the Laconia" miniseries and it took 8 days to get it. But I'm not member of a private tracker where it was available anyway, so sometimes public is better as long as one is patient.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I've been seeding for over 3 years. I only have a torrent that got up to 980 of ratio, if I remember correctly

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I download an iso image via torrent, that a way to "seed"?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure why people downvoted instead of educating. To answer your question: no, it isn't. It has been awhile since I've used torrents, so this may be a little out of date, but typically, within your P2P client you'll have active "seeds," including while you're downloading. Some people immediately delete files from "active" after their download is complete. It is generally considered proper etiquette to leave the torrent active (at least) until it you have uploaded approximately 2x what you have downloaded. This helps keep torrents active and relatively quick, while not placing the bulk of the bandwidth burden on a few seeders.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I seed, but I'm behind a NAT I don't control without port forwarding, so I'm not a good seed.

Maybe I will do the seedbox VPS thing... after I get employed again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't tried it yet, but I've seen massive lists of trackers floating around that you can add to your torrents, in case the same torrent is indexed on other trackers, but the torrent file you downloaded doesn't know to search them.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Ah fuck, forgot to turn on my vpn last night. Gotta pump this ratio numbers up!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2e9aa7e3b949238ed2db6cfc6f0f45a743a3bf54&dn=Machine%20Gun%20Fellatio%20[3%20Albums]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Really appreciate the response, thank you. I do actually have those 3 albums (bought the CDs), I'm more chasing the rarer stuff. But that link will get added and seeded now

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How do I do that? It is extremely recently that I started using torrents.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To keep things simple, they must be left in the same location as wherever the download client puts them, and the client stays open. I use an organiser and very useful tool called Radarr, it monitors your downloads and it lets you hardlink the video files once they've completed, which both allows the download client to keep seeding, and the media server you may use to keep using it.

A hardlink involves some intimate knowledge of how storage works, it can be done manually but the best option is to let a program handle it for you. Note: To hardlink, the download location and media library location must be on the same storage device, and the Sonarr user must have write access to the downloaded file. For me, group write access didn't help. This way it will not duplicate storage.

Generally, some areas and Internet Service Providers might crack down on torrenting of any sort, so using a VPN is a smart way to not get your IP noticed. My area's authority and ISP don't care, so I'm not too sure.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Just after you downloaded it. Keep the program open so you are seeing automatically.. Meaning others can download the content from your computer. Assuming you correctly configured your firewall/router to open up the right ports.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Just this past week I coincidentally got my torrent box back up and behind a VPN. I'm actively looking for popular torrents in need of more seeders, especially those on private trackers worth building some seed cred on. Anyone got suggestions? I'm open to books, libraries, certain genres of anime, feature length movies, various commercial software, and large FOSS software.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Transformers earthspark for one off the top of my head - my upload ratio is triple digits but there's never more than single digit seeders

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My VPN doesn't allow port forwarding so I cannot seed. If anyone has advice to safely seed then I'm all ears. I've paid a long time ahead for my provider so I cannot switch.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can seed without port forwarding, it just means the other side needs to have it.

Just keep your torrent client running and people will connect

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah I don't know where get this notion that they can't seed without port forwarding.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

You don't absolutely need port forwarding to seed. As long as the other side has a port open you'll be able to upload to them.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"me being the only seed on this torrent with no peers"

i'll keep seeding the new normal even though nobody wants it to get to my 1.0 ratio even if it takes me a million years

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You see, the problem is that radar and sonarr move my files into designated folders. That is a good thing, but it also makes it so that my download client can't find it again to continue uploading.

I have now set it up so that I keep a copy in my downloads folder for a week, but I don't have the space to permanently keep two copies of all my downloads.

It would be great if radarr could tell my download client where the file has moved to so that it can keep on seeding indefinitely.

[–] priapus 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

You can configure radarr and sonarr to use hard linking instead of moving the.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yes, but hardlinking doesn't work if the files aren't on the same petition.

My downloads folder is on the main harddisk.
The files are moved to an external ssd.

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