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Was recovering an old virtual machine onto a new box and was shocked to see 9,999, I presume thats an upper limit in the UI. Dune (2021) for those curious

Now wheres my crossbones flag?

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[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 99 points 1 year ago

Sir, are you the Pirate Bay? I feel like you're single-handedly keeping a tracker alive.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] myster0n@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago
[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this must be something I'm too usenet to understand

kidding of course, well done and thank you for your service

[–] bbuez@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Actually if you would be so kind, what is the rundown of Usenet? I've searched a bit but been busy to really sit down on it, should I consider it being just a side thing (for now)?

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Usenet is here to stay, it is similar as if you pay for vip in order to be able to leech without seeding. This makes automated pirating legal in some countries (like mine) since only doing direct downloads from your usenet provider. The usenet provider have servers which exchange bits of data with IDs similar like we do with torrenting. As a user, you now go to a indexer, who gives you a map, with which bits of data you can construct your file. So you then download each bit directly and put everything together and are rewarded with a normal file. Until now I have found every release which is also in predb using the private indexers I have.

[–] BackwardMonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I signed up for usenet recently but couldn't really find anything worthwhile. How do you find good stuff?

[–] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Beside a Usenet provider, you also need to sign up with an "indexer".

To compare a Usenet download with a download on the regular internet:

  • Usenet = your internet provider (which enables you to connect to stuff)
  • Indexer = search engine (helps you find the stuff)

NZBGeek is a good indexer.

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[–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Its pay to pirate.

[–] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Fight club rules. Yeah, I'm old school

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[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 30 points 1 year ago

There's honor amoung thieves and you have most of it.

[–] squeakycat@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago

Nice!

My highest isn't nearly that large - Dark souls remastered at 1143 ratio.

Kudos ☠️☠️☠️

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago

I think you're doing my part too

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I can't get over 0.00 most of the time because no one's leeching 😭

Idk how I'm even supposed to get a good ratio

[–] zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Download a popular movie and keep your computer on for a while 🤷‍♂️

Although, seeding stuff that isn't popular is also important. I don't know what you're seeding but if no one is leeching maybe there aren't a whole lot of other people seeding either. When someone does leech, they might be very happy that you're there keeping that one torrent alive.

[–] bbuez@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was suddenly nostalgic for MythBusters again, and in my acquisition I found a couple seasons that have pretty low seeders. Will gladly be a forever seeder even if one person a year leaches

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a fanedit out there of the complete series Mythbusters with all of the flashbacks and filler removed. No more 5-minute long "before the break" segments.

[–] CurbsTickle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know the name of the fanedit? I'd like to check it out

[–] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago

Good trackers reward seeding old torrents

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I have a Raspberry Pi with the *arr stuff and Jellyfin that's seeding 24/7. I tried looking for popular stuff on the private trackers I'm on but they always have so many seeders in comparison to leechers that I don't know if it would actually help or worsen my ratio.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

But when they do leach you'll be thanked.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Same, but it's because I am not connectable (CG-NAT).

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

I have one tracker I am twice as long active with versus another one and I almst catched up the uploaded data with less torrents active. Sometimes I wonder if I am just not the primary target for that tracker or I just don't like the popular stuff.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Autobrr set to download freeleech

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[–] deranger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I build ratio on private trackers by getting as much freeleech stuff as I can, even though I might not be into it. Timing is key also, I’ll snatch anything I think will blow up. If you get in early you can get lots of upload. This worked great to get my initial ratio built up on what.cd and redacted.

[–] bbuez@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I would imagine, and namely the reason I raise the sails again, content thats being migrated across different subscriptions will become a real hot token item

[–] Damage@feddit.it 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Must be from a public tracker

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[–] androidul@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you store all that in the Homework folder?

[–] bbuez@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahem thats a Proxmox powered homework folder to you

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

It's the bare minimum if you care about your homework and Linux ISOs

[–] TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

please excuse my stupidity but what does this mean? i know it's something with torrenting but i don't know what exactly

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have really high seeding ratios.

0.5 would mean they uploaded half the filesize. 1 means whole filesize. 2 means twice. You get the idea.

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[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Yo ho ho and two bottles of rum for you 🏴‍☠️

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's your upload amount? Ratio isn't vs the total size of the torrent, so this can happen if you remove a readd a torrent to the client for a file that's already in the hard drive. Say you download 1kb of a 1gb file, but then upload 10mb you can get some insane ratios.

[–] bbuez@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most unfortunately overall statistics aren't exported, the VM had been sitting active on a PC for a while before I turned it off for a few months and wiped it recently

I can say those top ratios were movies I had first acquired, and never had set a seed limit so I'm certain I've been seeding the entire file

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I was able to seed relentlessly, I aimed for 3.0. Typically, popular things got into the tens or twenties, while rare stuff would get lucky to cross the 1.0 threshold.

Thieves and beggars, never shall we die and all that.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

When I downloaded The Last Of Us it would shoot to 4-5 and get stuck there. Meanwhile, I downloaded Madagascar on a random Monday and a week or so later that thing is at 36.0.

It's totally random.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

It's over nine thousand!

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Well done.

I generally drop torrents out of seeding if there are >100 seeders so I have nothing as high as your top 10

[–] Sabakodgo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Insane, my highest is around 100 ratio.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's almost certainly a partial cross seed, but if it isn't, that's one hell of an accomplishment.

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