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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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[–] AtomicPurple@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

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.

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

Plenty of seeders on private trackers

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

And Usenet!

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 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? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] Phrodo_00@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The oldest active torrent I know of is the fanimatrix. I'm still seeding it just in case.

[–] trimmerfrost@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I want to seed too, but I can't get anyone to receive it

[–] Moohamin12@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yay.

Sometimes certain debried like Alldebried might be able to get you the torrent without any seeding p2p.

But they might be a paid service so that's up to you.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

That chance is so low that you might even safe money just buying what you're looking for

[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Only if it’s still cached on their servers. If the torrent has zero seeders and it’s not cached even the debrid sites can’t complete the download on their side.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 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.

[–] gk99@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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