cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42516399
I now seed all files I download for as long as I have them to make up for the decade I had dogshit upload speeds and couldn't seed for shit
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2026
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I hate that a ratios on the private tracker I joined are so bad. I feel dishonest.
My public torrents routinely have 10-25 times the ratio.
The worst is when you need to do a bunch of downloading, you have no upload bandwidth, and everything is already seeded 100x with no other leechers.
Seed longer and download freeleech then you can get out of the trap.
So far, everything I've wanted is freeleech, so that hasn't been an issue. I continue to seed, but the ratios are much worse for the same amount of time seeding.
Torrenting in Germany is DANGEROUS. Piracy is in general harshly prosecuted here but "one click downloads" are in a gray zone. That means while you can download everything you want, Uploading is very illegal and henceforth seeding.
This is also the reason why i didn't seed my Linux back. Nobody in the world knows if i am allowed to seed proprietary software but if i am unlucky, that means pain.
Just use a VPN and that's it. Easy and nothing happens
Unless you forget to bind your torrent client to the VPN interface. Found that out the hard way and had to pay 600 € for like 10 seconds of accidental seeding, and that was after negotiating with the law firm, else it would have been around 1k €. So yeah, the commenter above was not kidding with torrenting in Germany being dangerous, even the slightest error in your setup can be pretty expensive. Now I only use i2p torrents to be on the really safe side, and also because I want to see the network grow.
Yeah it's kind of embarrassing but in my experience the number one rule of VPN kill switch schemes is that they will fail to trigger. Sometimes twice, after you fix the discrepancy that caused it to not trigger the first time. Fucking docker being too smart for it's own good... Me being too dumb for my own...
Torrenting is legal.
Seeding actual .isos is legal.
What is illegal is torrenting movies and stuff. You know, stuff that one usually needs to pay for.
And for the 2nd part, you can rent a seedbox somewhere where they don't care for your little mishehaviour
I'm finally at a place where I can aim for a 1.0 ratio, but I've noticed that a lot of the stuff I torrent just uh...is not very popular lol. Some of them haven't had a single peer in months! It's kinda fun keeping an eye on it, sorta like a popularity contest.
Yeah I'm guessing I only watch old junk because the all the stuff I grabbed from private trackers is inching towards or barely over 1 ratio
Ehh...
For targetting ratio, you need to target the general taste of the tracker (example: BLU likes high quality remuxes. BluRay DLs arent as popular).
Other than that, try to crossseed as much as you can ;)
Im offended im in this comic.
Not my fault. My isp blocks port forwarding and I usually end up with 0 peers after reaching 100%
Use a VPN that supports port forwarding, like AirVPN.
Thanks for the tip. Right now, I can barely pay my current bills, but maybe I can try somethinglike that in the future, or maybe simply changing to a better isp
You’re better off with a seedbox or a service like put.io
Yep, I'm using qBitorrent + glutun + AirVPN. Works great.
And then private trackers punish you for no fault of your own. So, you instead start looking for the same files on sketchy ad ridden sites with no seed ratio limits.
The rules were known before joining but chose to ignore it? Well...
Or get this: don't seek external material gains from other humans. You open yourself to manipulation and exploitation through these desires, but whatever you downloaded, you will use up, and be bored again.
But now you technically owe someone.
It's ironic, as seeding is the part that the state can get you for. Ripping the original is illegal, distributing it is illegal, but taking the rip is not, at least in my country.
When you live in a country where upload speeds are abysmall even when download speeds are ok, you learn to heavily throttle torrent uploads lest you ruin the internet for your entire household.
The household is active 24/7?
And btw, the comic talks about seeding at all and not about throttled seeding.
There are ways around it, for sure, but let's say it was enough to instill bad habits in me.
I'm getting into torrenting. I still need to learn how to put torrenting in a docker container and place a VPN arround it.
I use a virtual machine with all traffic routed through a VPN as it provides far more isolation than a container.
You can bind qbittorrent to a network interface (vpn interface) so it only puts traffic through it which prevents leaking traffic.
https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn
This is what I use. Really simple to setup. It has a kill switch in case the VPN goes down.
Nyaa is normally so well seeded that it can be difficult. I'm on a fresh OS install so I lost my history but I've tried seeding popular shows for weeks and not gotten above 0.5
I'll usually seed on nyaa for a 6.0 ratio.
New episodes are fulfilled within <2-7 days.