the second it says "Seeding"
Don't worry, it will stall at 99.9% forever
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I don’t know about you guys, but I set mine to stop seeding at a 2.0 ratio. Give more than you get. That’s the way I think it should be.
Used to do this but now feel like it's a net positive to just let it go and be a bigger cog in the antimachine.
A better way is to just limit connections and upload speed and seed forever. If your total connections is like 25 and your max upload is like 100 KB/ps, it doesn't affect your internet or anything although you should use a VPN and stuff, and it helps to keep those files out there with a complete source for a long time.
Highest I've seeded before stopping was 2000x, on about 30 or so titles. And everything from my home connection lol
Depends on the torrent tbh, if it has loads of seeders already i don't really care.
True, unless you're the only one seeding a particular thing. It's good to keep media alive and available, especially obscure stuff.
The more seeders, the likelier I'll probably give 2.0.
But I'll keep everything seeded as long as I have storage available.
Valid, although I prefer the 24/7 seed to infinity method.
Why would you do that? We should all keep on seeding as long as possible.
god i even hate pausing seeding for even an hour cause i'm like BUT WHAT IF SOMEONE WANTS IT???
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Isn't that what streamio effectively does?
Question: does a debrid server avoid that? Do debrid providers seed?
My understanding is that debrid servers do not seed, which is the primary reason I've been turned off to the idea of using one
Hmm. Good to know. Though at least they only download once for multiple people
Yep. And that's why I hate those users. Damn leeches
I do think this is the real issue, these programs like Kodi and stremio do exactly that.
Maybe one day ProtonVPN will fix their port-forwarding for their configuration files, I haven’t seen anyone else complain about this and their support is oblivious that this function even exists.
For people wondering the Learn More link just tells you what port forwarding does.
Try taking a look at the way glueten implements port forwarding with protonvpn. Hopefully it helps you piece together a script that works for your setup.
https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun/discussions/2686
https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/advanced/vpn-port-forwarding.md
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Back when I had VDSL and even ADSL, I'd try to hit 1.1 ratio because if everyone did that the risk of information being lost would be close to 0%. Nowadays with gigabit internet, all that prevents me from seeding is hard drive space, and 8 TB doesn't fill up quickly with how few good movies and series there are these days. I guess that's one way to stop piracy, just make fewer and worse series/movies.Trying to keep a public torrent alive is hard work, but someone has to do it.
"Good" is in the eye of the beholder. Have you considered that the quality hasn't changed much, but instead you've become more discerning as you age? I certainly have far less tolerance for the stupid shit I used to think was funny long ago.
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Personally I enjoy seeing the numbers go up. Looking at the current top ten by ratio according to my torrent client most of them are obscure things that I'm probably the only one seeding — but the number one spot, at a ratio of 565, goes to "Shrek (2001) [1080p]".
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just had a silly idea: stopping your torrent right as it starts to seed (to avoid ISP letters) is like pulling out as a form of birth control
Yeah, but you still seed while you download
Meta's legal defense was that they limited seeding to a minimal value as a precaution when they pirated terabytes of books. Of course, I don't expect the same ruling would be granted to an individual... Shit is fucked.
So they downloaded it all to train their models and didn't even seed back!?
Yes, beacuse that would be distribution of copyrighted materials...
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I would seed if people ever used me. I only have so much space, and everytime I try to seed, there's either nobody downloading, or theirs a hundred other seeders.
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No one wants my seed.
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