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.
aldalire ( @aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English78•11 months agoA true pirate shares their booty 🔥🔥
Squirrel ( @Squirrel@thelemmy.club ) English61•11 months agosigh I’ll let my wife know…
vd1n ( @vd1n@lemmy.ml ) English37•11 months agoWell then I guess that makes ya mum a pirate! 🦜🏴☠️🍆💦
meseek #2982 ( @ultratiem@lemmy.ca ) English8•11 months agoBooty Sweat!
Michael ( @michael@lemmy.perthchat.org ) English5•11 months agoFirst booty on duty, no time to wait!
notepass ( @notepass@feddit.de ) English62•11 months agoNow if only torrenting wouldn’t mean an automatic 500€ invoice from a very specific law firm in my country :(
narp ( @narp@feddit.de ) English42•11 months agoAlle meine Zuhausis hassen Waldorf Frommer!
notepass ( @notepass@feddit.de ) English13•11 months agoDenen soll ne ente aus’m Arsch kriechen.
Contend6248 ( @Contend6248@feddit.de ) English41•11 months agoFor about 5€ a month you can free yourself from these risks
Mr4x3 ( @Mr4x3@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•11 months agobut who want a quite simple life :)
kernelPanic ( @kernelPanic@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months agoReally 5 EUR: https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/products/vpn/#pricing
Contend6248 ( @Contend6248@feddit.de ) English2•11 months agoThey base off Mullvad which removed the ability to forward ports, not the 1st choice for P2P, but anything else
kernelPanic ( @kernelPanic@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months agoI didn’t understand. Aren’t all ports go through the encrypted traffic once I start a vpn?
Contend6248 ( @Contend6248@feddit.de ) English2•11 months agoThey do, but if you can’t forward a port nothing can get to you from outside, which you want with P2P, per default anything from outside is blocked.
If two people with no port forwarding meet, they aren’t able to connect, one side has to have an open port, so you’re missing many peers and seeders and you can counter this by being the one with the open port so anyone is able to connect to you.
Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English12•11 months agoJust rent a seedbox.
Torrenting actively from public trackers for 14€ per month and can host the best streaming service right at home. Joe Bidet ( @JoeBidet@lemmy.ml ) English10•11 months agosounds 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 ( @notepass@feddit.de ) English31•11 months agoOh 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.
DrownedAxolotl ( @DrownedAxolotl@lemmy.ml ) English6•11 months agoHow effective are VPNs at preventing this? I’ve heard it recommended the most as a counter measure.
Chewy ( @Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ) English18•11 months agoVPN’s solve this problem completely. This law firm looks at the IP’s of seeders and if they are german they request the personal details from the respective ISP.
If it’s an IP of a (reputable) VPN they don’t achieve anything and if it’s not a german IP they can’t do anything anyway.
They mostly go for the easy targets since that’s their easy business.
Holzkohlen ( @Holzkohlen@feddit.de ) English3•11 months agoThis is the way. qBittorrent even has an interface option. You can set that to your VPN and it’s basically a killswitch. I’ve still got mullvads killswitch option enabled on top of it tho. It just cuts your internet connection, if you ever drop the connection to their servers.
Chewy ( @Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•11 months agoOh right. Binding to the VPN network interface is really important.
It gives peace of mind. One time I noticed the VPN was off and qBit still ran and I didn’t bind to the interface. Luckily it was fine.
Chewy ( @Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ) English2•11 months agoVPN’s solve this problem completely. This law firm looks at the IP’s of seeders and if they are german they request the personal details from the respective ISP.
If it’s an IP of a (reputable) VPN they don’t achieve anything and if it’s not a german IP they can’t do anything anyway.
They mostly go for the easy targets since that’s their easy business.
MaggiWuerze ( @MaggiWuerze@feddit.de ) English5•11 months agoJo, seitdem zieh ich nur noch über OCHs
holycrapwtfatheism ( @holycrapwtfatheism@kbin.social ) 4•11 months agoDoes Usenet trigger the same issue?
ErwinLottemann ( @ErwinLottemann@feddit.de ) English4•11 months agoNo, it’s just p2p that works in their favour…
Holzkohlen ( @Holzkohlen@feddit.de ) English1•11 months agoIt’s just the seeding that is illegal, not the downloading part. You can pirate, you just can’t share (legally).
ELLIOTTCABLE ( @ELLIOTTCABLE@beehaw.org ) English2•11 months agoWhat’s this in reference to, as one Not In That Country?
ErwinLottemann ( @ErwinLottemann@feddit.de ) English1•11 months ago
SeaJ ( @SeaJ@lemm.ee ) English2•11 months agoIf you want a year subscription to Speedify, let me know. I got a year in a Humble Bundle that I never used because I have a lifetime subscription to Windscribe. Speaking of which, Windscribe allows 10GB of free transfers each month. Not much but it will get you a few movies or audio books.
Wahots ( @Wahots@pawb.social ) English23•11 months agoGod, 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 ( @gk99@beehaw.org ) English13•11 months agoLike 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.
GnuLinuxDude ( @GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ) English18•11 months agoWhen rarbg went down I immediately went and for any torrent I still had loaded in my client I quadrupled my normal ratio (3.5 -> 12.00). Then I also just increased my ratio generally.
I wish I had more disk space to keep things going even longer, but I really gotta cycle stuff out unfortunately.
Strawberry ( @Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•11 months agoWhen rarbg went down I waited a couple weeks for straghlers then stopped seeding all rarbg torrents. Is there a reason to? How will people even find these torrents?
GnuLinuxDude ( @GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ) English8•11 months agoThere are archives of all the rarbg magnet links. I still use them to successfully find stuff. As long as those links are out there it is still possible to help people out.
CmdrShepard ( @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ) English3•11 months agoCan’t people still find them from DHT and PEX or whatever they’re called?
Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•11 months agoyep
Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•11 months agoThere is a specific magnet link you can get a specific sql file from. Inside is a cool database containing a big amount of records of torrent magnets which you can input into the tracker and download.
pssk ( @Pssk@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months agorarbg.best
zephyrvs ( @zephyrvs@lemmy.ml ) English18•11 months agoLet me throw my seedbox into the ring. :)
BillionsMustSeed ( @BillionsMustSeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English18•11 months agoNot from the same source, but I’m in the middle of getting a 5GB file that took me five days so far and will take another five to complete. After that, I think I will keep sharing for as long as possible this one, since I see a lot of peers every day, even though there’s only one seeder, from which I’m currently downloading at 10Kbps (and not because of my bandwidth, I think it’s theirs that’s a bit on the slow side).
I have slow upload, but once there are two seeds things should get better for all other peers, compared to now haha
Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English23•11 months agoI always am going crazy seeing a 1mib/s upload divided by 10 peers while I am sitting here with a gig symmetric line ready to satisfy all within a minute (if their pipes allow it).
JUST GIVE ME THE DAMN BANDWIDTH and I shall satisfy everyone and their dog for a 100 ratio… ehyuman ( @ehyuman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•11 months agothat sucks
Zeroxxx ( @Zeroxxx@lemm.ee ) English16•11 months agoI seed anime OSTs, plenty enough and rare collections.
If you folks happen to download that category, chances are I am one of your sources 🤣
figaro ( @figaro@lemdro.id ) English7•11 months agoThanks friend! You’re doing the work of Kamisama
WorseDoughnut 🍩 ( @worsedoughnut@lemdro.id ) English15•11 months agoMy crowning achievement is still seeding a 2.429TB torrent up to a 1.0 ratio, took me about 7 and a half months.
renard_roux ( @renard_roux@beehaw.org ) English5•11 months agoWhat’s inside a 2.4TB torrent? 🤔
WorseDoughnut 🍩 ( @worsedoughnut@lemdro.id ) English15•11 months agoIt was a 4K porn siterip.
renard_roux ( @renard_roux@beehaw.org ) English7•11 months agoWonderful! I wish you both a happy relationship! Sounds like you’ve got your work cut out for you 😊👌
WorseDoughnut 🍩 ( @worsedoughnut@lemdro.id ) English3•11 months agoIn my defense I was really only trying to find a handful of specific videos from a certain porn site… But you know how sometimes it’s just easier to grab an entire album or an entire season / boxset of a show, than it is to find a specific song / episode in high quality? Well that same rules applies to porn, and since I had no issue with space (I have a very large NAS) I just grabbed the whole siterip since it actually had a decent number of seeds lol
renard_roux ( @renard_roux@beehaw.org ) English3•11 months agoI know exactly what you mean. No defence need my friend, but maybe some lotion 😊💦 #staysafe
ari ( @ari@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English15•11 months agoFun fact: This movie is on the 4k movies google drive
vd1n ( @vd1n@lemmy.ml ) English13•11 months agoIs quality worth the 50gb?
I don’t have any fancy speakers or monitor…
acedelgado ( @acedelgado@kbin.social ) 19•11 months agoAt 80+Gb that means it’s a straight blu-ray rip without being recompressed at all, which is perfect if you have a nice home theater system. You definitely notice the difference then. But if you’re just watching on an average monitor with headphones or such, then you’re honestly better off finding a smaller version that someone properly compressed down a bit.
Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English10•11 months agoMy very fancy sweet spot is somewhere between 10-20gb 1080p
My alright sweet spot is around 7-10gb 1080p.Higher is too much in disk space for me.
paris ( @paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English1•11 months ago7–20gb for a 1080p movie? Only my 4k movies are allowed to burn that much space. Most of my 1080p movies are under 5gb (usually under 3). I think the only 1080p movie I have at that size is Jiang Ziya: Legend of Deification (2020) at ~11gb, and that’s only because I haven’t found a dual audio version in HEVC/AV1.
Edit: For context, I watch on a 1440p monitor with headphones that simulate 7.1 surround sound (Logitech G Pro X Wireless). A LOT of my 1080p movies are RARBG’s 2gb 5.1 releases. Incredible quality for how tiny the files are. Actual magic.
Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•11 months agoLike I said those are the movies I really enjoy (like Interstellar etc.)
Most get the usual treatment of sub 10gb. paris ( @paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English1•11 months agoI didn’t read fancy as meaning “good movies I like” my bad. I thought it was just a modifier to sweet spot meant to spice up the sentence oops
Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•11 months agoActually both. Might be actually my bad ;)
If it’s a movie I enjoy or is often talked about as being visually stunning, it gets the good treatment.
If it’s just another run of the mill, it get’s the usual treatment.
Contend6248 ( @Contend6248@feddit.de ) English6•11 months agoTry it out and see for yourself if it’s worth it to you.
Even with fancy gear some people don’t appreciate higher quality, i’m somewhat jealous, because that would save me so much money.
ELLIOTTCABLE ( @ELLIOTTCABLE@beehaw.org ) English8•11 months agoTry getting older!
A decade ago, I was extremely into hi-fi — most of my disposable income went to it. (Martin Logan electrostatic speakers and McIntosh amps, stereo JL Fathom 13.5” subs, sound treatment and reference mic for balancing and analysis …)
Now? I’m perfectly and completely pleased with my AirPods Max. My hearing just ain’t what it used to be, and I genuinely don’t hear the slightest difference. (… obviously modulo feeling the bass, hah.)
(Yes. I listen to music over Bluetooth. Not even APT-X. WHO HAVE I BECOME? 😭)
Contend6248 ( @Contend6248@feddit.de ) English2•11 months agoThe process already started, i’ve bought myself some Anker bluetooth buds for 24€ recently just for podcasts and sounds for sleeping. I have to say, you can make out a difference for sure, but why the fuck have i spent 3k on headphone and DAC, i’m starting to question myself if that noticeable but not immense improvement was worth that kind of money.
I still don’t regret it and enjoy it while it lasts, but i don’t know if i will do that again.
Maybe we just made inner peace with the knowledge that we experienced higher-end and can settle for less.
LeFantome ( @LeFantome@programming.dev ) English1•11 months agoMartin Logan. Very nice indeed.
DaGeek247 ( @DaGeek247@kbin.social ) 2•11 months agoWith prices being about 14$/tb on sale for the cheapest 8-16tb drives, yeah, it really is. And if the cheap drive breaks, no problem, you only had public torrents on it anyways.
It looks great on my TV! The HD version also looks very good but flipping between them this version is noticably higher quality.
🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English12•11 months agoThe only time I seed, really. If there’s only like 2 or 3 seeders and they have shit connections, I’ll seed for a while. Not that my upload speed is any good…
But on a thing with thousands of seeders and maybe 20 leeches? Why? 🤷🏻♂️
B3_CHAD ( @B3_CHAD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English9•11 months agoThank you sailor.
transistor ( @transistor@lemdro.id ) English7•11 months agoExcellent work!
JustEnoughDucks ( @JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ) English6•11 months agoI did this with the That 70s show FGT torrents. Nobody seeds older media anymore, so each one had/has a >30 ratio on the 5GB-per-season BDrips
I wish for low-risk older media people would just keep the seed open forever. Very little bandwidth will be taken up but people will have it there if they want to go back and watch it.
nickiam2 ( @nickiam2@aussie.zone ) English6•11 months agoAnd this is why I backup all the torrents I download. If I lose the drive, they might not be seeded anymore and I won’t be able to re-download everything. There’s stuff in my collection that was hard to find 5 years ago.
Scrollone ( @Scrollone@feddit.it ) English1•11 months agoIs there a specific way you backup torrents? Or do you just drop them in a folder?
Holzkohlen ( @Holzkohlen@feddit.de ) English2•11 months agoThe only sane way to have a backup would be a NAS with raid 1. Other than that? Yeah, just drop them in a folder. The other dude probably just has them on an external drive, if that fails they are gone.
nickiam2 ( @nickiam2@aussie.zone ) English2•11 months agoI put it on S3 Glacier. It’s really really cheap to store. $1/TB. But I also have multiple copies locally
Scrollone ( @Scrollone@feddit.it ) English1•11 months agoNice! But how do you organize them? Like putting them in subfolders, etc.
My fear is that I would end up with an infite list of files that I cannot organise easily