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.

  • notepass@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Now if only torrenting wouldn’t mean an automatic 500€ invoice from a very specific law firm in my country :(

    • Joe Bidet@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      sounds like pure intimidation to me.

      1/ one could have “never received this letter”

      2/ one could decide not to pay, and then what? will they go to court? based on what evidence?

      3/ if it ever goes to court, “i don’t know, i wasnt even home that day” should always work no?

      i don’t understand while in some countries (actually only one that i know of, Germany) people seem to be terrified by this lawyer’s spam…

      • notepass@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Oh no it isn’t. Walldorf Frommer is well known to send “Unterlassungerklärungen” which you have to answer. It will go to court if you do not work against this. You normally need your own lawyer to defuse what they send you.

        Also, if you are in court, there is the concept of “Störerhaftung” which is a wet dream for everyone suing you for copyright infringement. They will have your IP and the time, thus your address. Now you either have to name someone who did do it, or if you can’t you will automatically be liable.

        This isn’t any intimidation, it is one company using the laws in place here to fuck you majorly over. There are a lot of stories about this and if you seed on any public tracker you WILL get a letter.

  • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.orgEnglish
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      1 year 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.

  • Psythik@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I rather just stick to Real-Debrid, and never worry about seeds nor seeding ever again. Cached torrents are the future!

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Disagree. I use a paid streaming service that’s every bit as convenient as Netflix, but has a library consisting of almost anything you could possibly think of. No need to hope somebody’s seeding it, or go searching through dozens of different sites. It’s one super easy go-to source that not only has the content, but remembers where you left off, allows user profiles, etc. That convenience is worth paying for.

        • DavyJones@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Unless it was something really obscure I never had problems finding seeders.

          I use the search engine function inside qBitTorrent and I sort the results descending by the number of seeders. To enable it go to View > Search Engine (iirc) and follow these simple instructions.

          qBitTorrent also has a feature that lets you download a torrent in order of their pieces, and also download the first and last piece first, which is basically streaming. No need to wait for the download to finish first.

          If needed, VLC has a built-in plugin called VLsub which lets you find and automatically load subtitles for almost anything. To enable it go to View > VLSub.

          qBitTorrent + VLC is my Netflix. Never asked me a cent, but to me they are priceless and more convenient than any subscription service.

          On Android I use LibreTorrent + VLC.