Hey all, I know a lot of people are migrating to private torrent sites, and OK, that’s a choice. However there are still a lot of people on the public torrents who are just leeching and not seeding.
I have several popular (old/classic) movies in my feed that I have uploaded (literally) 1000x the original and many more in the several hundred times. That’s fine, I choose to support the community, but it’s pretty depressing when I look at the seeders count and those movies have 2 or 3 other seeders.
This only works if you share. Please don’t cut off as soon as you’ve downloaded.
And on a personal note, if anyone has audio or video files for “Machine Gun Fellatio” also listed as MGF could you please start seeding in particular
“MGF Pack 1”
“MGF+Pack+2”
“MGF+Pack+3”
If I can get the download completed I’ll keep them up permanently, but unfortunately as they are obscure/rare I’m getting nowhere.
Rules don’t permit me showing the torrent link of course. DM if that would help
I feel you. A few weeks ago I finished a 450GB torrent that had like 5 seeders all super slow and wouldn’t even connect most of the time. It took over 7 month in total.
i seed a lot. but don’t have port forwarding so limited impact sadly
For some reason torrents I downloaded from the archive seem to get the most seeding out of?
Only one of the two sides needs a port open so I’m sure your seeding is contributing
Just this past week I coincidentally got my torrent box back up and behind a VPN. I’m actively looking for popular torrents in need of more seeders, especially those on private trackers worth building some seed cred on. Anyone got suggestions? I’m open to books, libraries, certain genres of anime, feature length movies, various commercial software, and large FOSS software.
Transformers earthspark for one off the top of my head - my upload ratio is triple digits but there’s never more than single digit seeders
Sorry but I use a Debrid service now. No need to seed when you get direct downloads to just about any torrent you want.
I wonder who seeds those…
Bro. You are the problem OP is ranting about.
Selfish asshole
I use a Debrid service and still go out of my way to get the torrent and seed 3-4x. The only reason I don’t use the torrents directly is that Stremio is just quick and easy on the TV for now. Once I get a pi setup on my TV, I’ll be torrenting and watching via that while I seed.
Debrid is easy and convenient. That’s it. However, I’m not a fan of Debrid, nor am I a fan of private tracker sites. Making something a paid service or a closed group invite only is, by definition, the complete opposite of what piracy is supposed to stand for. Leave that shit to capitalism, imo.
Basically, private and paid anything is for the birds, man. I’m still out here torrenting on public like a real buccaneer. Do I pay for a VPN? Yes. Its a necessity, especially if I want to open a port and make sure every peer can get to me. Other than that, I don’t want to pay for shit. The only payment I condone is seeding.
My VPN doesn’t allow port forwarding so I cannot seed. If anyone has advice to safely seed then I’m all ears. I’ve paid a long time ahead for my provider so I cannot switch.
You can seed without port forwarding, it just means the other side needs to have it.
Just keep your torrent client running and people will connect
Yeah I don’t know where get this notion that they can’t seed without port forwarding.
I have seen it a lot online being mentioned you needed portforwarding. So I just did not know it wasn’t needed. I will definitely start seeding all my downloads. I’m all for sharing and keeping the content public that is the whole point. Thanks!
If you are fucking power seeder chad… Sure
If you are just trying to pitch in, just keep rare shit up. Nobody asking for nothing more
I’d like to be a power seeder chad 😂 I just don’t know how.
Also, are you sure you actually need a VPN? Most countries don’t give a fuck about piracy.
You don’t absolutely need port forwarding to seed. As long as the other side has a port open you’ll be able to upload to them.
Issue is that most people can’t/don’t know how to set up a vpn and a torrent program that will give more than like a 10Kb upload. So even if they aren’t trying not to seed, they still aren’t by default.
Please note that many countries don’t give a fuck about private-use piracy, so in many cases you don’t need a VPN.
Do you have a guide or do you mind explaining the best way to do this?
If I have had Radarr and Sonarr rename all my files and move them. Is it still possible to seed them? Do I need to package them as torrents again?
Yes its possible, you can read the trash guide how to do it
Thanks.
I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ve seen massive lists of trackers floating around that you can add to your torrents, in case the same torrent is indexed on other trackers, but the torrent file you downloaded doesn’t know to search them.
Yes absolutely, keeping your trackers up to date is important, they do expire
for example
will give you an up to date list of live trackers to replace the dead ones with
Thank you so much for sharing this link - and for the post! I appreciate you :)
I seed, but I’m behind a NAT I don’t control without port forwarding, so I’m not a good seed.
Maybe I will do the seedbox VPS thing… after I get employed again.
I found an mgf torrent but it’s all mp3. Were you looking for flac?
MP3 is fine thank you
I already have the well known albums (On Ice, Paging Mr Strike, Bring it on, Second Page for Mr Strike)
Cheers. That’s their song with someone else’s video, I’ll grab it and stick it in the “adaptions” folder
I see. Are you missing any of these?
this is what’s in the stuff I’m trying to chase down - video footage, early singles that sort of thing (hopefully the pic works)
Yeah that didnt work, maybe this link
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I’m an idiot those are most of the albums/EPs and I don’t have “for the ladies” and “rollercoaster” thank you
Where do you find the torrent with no seeders?
Unfortunately, I am behind CG-NAT, so it always barely uploads anything.
I wish it could work like WebRTC or Tailscale. There could just be servers like the trackers, but to help establish this direct connection between peers.
I download an iso image via torrent, that a way to “seed”?
You’ve had a good answer by letstakealook, but just to expand on one point, you need to leave your torrent application (qbittorrent or whatever) running in the background for an extended period. If you close the app and don’t load it again after you’ve got the download then you’re not seeding - seeding means to share it to others after you’ve finished downloading
I’m not sure why people downvoted instead of educating. To answer your question: no, it isn’t. It has been awhile since I’ve used torrents, so this may be a little out of date, but typically, within your P2P client you’ll have active “seeds,” including while you’re downloading. Some people immediately delete files from “active” after their download is complete. It is generally considered proper ediccate to leave the torrent active (at least) until it you have uploaded approximately 2x what you have downloaded. This helps keep torrents active and relatively quick, while not placing the bulk of the bandwidth burden on a few seeders.
Also… Low seeder torrents. That’d a spot to shine if you got to prioritize. Main stream shit has a lot of turn over.
My problem is that the file I download is not in the right format, doesn’t have any metadata embedded, doesn’t have subs embedded, and doesn’t match my file naming convention. In fact the way media is packaged, I don’t know how anyone that cares about these things is able to seed.
i’ll keep seeding the new normal even though nobody wants it to get to my 1.0 ratio even if it takes me a million years
Given it looks like you’re the only seed (and a quick check on lime torrents only has 1 seed for the new normal s01 ep 1-22 (I assume that’s the above ?) then yeah, you’re the only one fighting the good fight ! Don’t stop :-D
EDIT
Bollocks to bad search techniques - it seems there’s about 4000 seeders for multiple different copies of it (the above version does indeed only have one though). I just thought “sod it, if there’s only 1 seeder I’ll help out”. Went and looked again <sigh> Help not needed.
yeah its “The.New.Normal.S01” i got it from a website that was a magnet link that’s been around for 7 years with 44 files but i got it SUPER fast like less than an hour so i want to make it available for anyone else cause i loved the show and want others to have it too :3
I have a seedbox and have been using private trackers for well over a decade. I seed forever, or until I need space.
When I cannot find something on one of my private trackers I do look on public trackers. I find the experience lacking.
My issues with public trackers:
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Search sites are sketchy af. Between pop up ads and fake direct download links, it can be challenging to find whatever you are looking for.
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Files can be poorly tagged or completely named wrong. The number of times I have downloaded not porn only to find porn can be counted on hand, mostly because the other hand is busy.
Anyway, I will gladly seed until the end of time if a public torrent search site exists that can get me the content I want without making me need a shower after.
Search sites are sketchy af
Jackett solves that issue
Try rutracker, genuinely a excellent public tracker. Entirely in Russian but Google translate deals with that easily.
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