Sir, are you the Pirate Bay? I feel like you're single-handedly keeping a tracker alive.
I think you're doing my part too
What a guy!
Makes you cry...
Und I did.
this must be something I'm too usenet to understand
kidding of course, well done and thank you for your service
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)?
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.
I signed up for usenet recently but couldn't really find anything worthwhile. How do you find good stuff?
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.
Thank you very much, until I start getting thin on content from public trackers I think I'll stick to torrents, especially if the bar of entry is lower, I'm in a good situation to seed so I might as well bring that to others
I am curious over the legality, is it in a way that the provider is storing the whole file just obfuscated? My (rather poor) understanding is that torrents work because the file pieces are distributed
In some countries, like Switzerland for example, it is legal to download, but illegal to upload content that is copyright protected. So if you want pirate legally, you ether only leech public torrents, buy vip leech pass on private tracker or simply turn to usenet.
I think it is that way, so that a consumer getting something from someone (free or paid) can not get in trouble for accepting, since how should the consumer know it is a pirated copy (I think the law was written prior digital age). But the one offering can get in trouble, since that person is more likely to know that it is a pirated copy. There is even an exception, which allows you to share your pirated copy with close friends. You can not even get in trouble if you rent stuff, copy it and give the original back after.
Laws written before the digital age regulating digital age things are the best.
Feels like a good part of the reason for Usenet to begin, I would like to try but I feel some bit obliged to provide for as long as I'm able. Thanks for your rundown, internationally differing laws are confusing
Any Usenet providers and indexers you'd recommend? I tried it a few months ago but couldn't quite wrap my head around how to use it. (I'm technically literate, but Usenet was completely foreign to me until a few months ago.)
Its pay to pirate.
Nice!
My highest isn't nearly that large - Dark souls remastered at 1143 ratio.
Kudos ☠️☠️☠️
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
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.
Same, but it's because I am not connectable (CG-NAT).
But when they do leach you'll be thanked.
It's over nine thousand!
Must be from a public tracker
Yessir, and frankly I'm caring a lot more for the torrents that are barely breathing on public trackers, its made me a little sad seeing how inaccessible some content can tend to get, but to be fair I haven't sailed the deep end with private trackers or anything yet
Unfortunately with public trackers you're mostly helping leechers and debrid users who don't contribute back anything at all
And lets be honest, a lot of us were once in the boat of at least not being able to seed back. With the content I seed I see it more as a preservation service...
Family and friends requesting even couple years old shows that just arent available in this region or what be it like come on, its the digital age, I can message someone halfway around the world but I can't watch some movie because someone wants the most nickel and dime. /rant
I don't expect any of them to know what bittorrent is, if it brings them joy when there may be no other option, that is what this is for afterall
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.
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
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.
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.
you store all that in the Homework folder?
Ahem thats a Proxmox powered homework folder to you
It's the bare minimum if you care about your homework and Linux ISOs
I2P would love to have you
Insane, my highest is around 100 ratio.
That's almost certainly a partial cross seed, but if it isn't, that's one hell of an accomplishment.
Yo ho ho and two bottles of rum for you 🏴☠️
Hahaha such funny memes on the pirate group funny memes post the picture I want to see the picture posted please I want to see it again look at it I want to hear the phrase and see the picture together at once
edit: please someone has the gif from the movie where this phrase comes from I need to see it because I love memes and I need to see it again I haven't seen it in a long time and it needs to be posted right now I need to look at it I love it I think it's really good and funny every time I see it it gets funnier please help me out just post it right here post it again and again and again
edit edit: hahaha
what
what are you smoking cause i want some
ball hairs rolled up in bible papers
Thank you ❤️
please excuse my stupidity but what does this mean? i know it's something with torrenting but i don't know what exactly
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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