I have five.

  • TehBamski@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I haven’t torrented in many years. But I wanted to give a shoutout to all of the seeders that come back online, so I we could finish. There were many movies I had qued. Most were fine and finished up in three days or less, some started then stopped before they even reached the 15% mark, and several would make it to 98% then stop. Thankfully, there were some people out there who finally came back online and seeded enough for me to finish the dls. I made sure to seed enough peers to where there would be 10 seeders before I would consider removing it.

    And a huge fucking thank you to whoever the hell came back online to let me get some obscure TV show called The Legend Of Mick Dodge. I started to dl when there were only 2 seeders. Then it soon became 0 seeders. I held out because I wasn’t able to find a trusted torrent for the show. So I ended up sitting on that for a bit over a month. Then one morning, I checked my list and found to my surprise that both season 1 and season 2 were complete. I was shocked when I found out that there were now 7 seeders including me. And because of the annoying wait I had to endure, I made sure to seed the MFer for 2+ months before transferring it.

    ((Turns out, the TV show is on archive.org https://archive.org/details/the-legend-of-mick-dodge/))

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Those were some entertaining movies (as I recall—I don’t know if I’ve seen them since I was barely into double-digit age). Worthwhile, even if they are based on beliefs I don’t share.

    • aramis87@fedia.io
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      3 months ago

      Archive also usually has a direct download option, if you can’t get the content from torrents there.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 months ago

        What’s frustrating to me is that in theory none of the torrents/magnet links should get stuck, as they have archive.org set as a direct download/web source backup. But I’ve literally never seen that feature fucking work. Ever.

    • Zero22xx@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I would recommend jdownloader for archive.org. It’s very clunky software but does the job. Another problem with torrents from archive.org is that they often seen to only include a portion of the actual content. For example, if there’s 80gb of content, the torrent only has 20gb. I used to think it was just big stuff that this happens with but I’ve even come across an album that was like 150mb but the torrent only included the first two songs. And no one there seems to be interested in ever fixing it because this has been an issue for ages on that website. I’m afraid that torrents from archive.org are just too unreliable.

    • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachts
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      3 months ago

      Usually this is because early in the torrent’s life, there were one or two files that people didn’t want to download for various reasons and eventually, nobody was seeding them anymore. This is why a lot of private trackers prohibit partial downloads

          • Like the wind...@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            3 months ago

            I’d rather… get my pirated software quicker and easier? 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 Keep sailing the high seas, I’ll be flying a plane instead.

            There are websites where you could skip the torrent process entirely. No I won’t list them. They’re sacred to me, I can’t live without them.

            I remember torrenting as a kid, never knew what seeding meant so I’d seed like 24/7. All I know is that downloading a torrent file takes ages, then extracting it takes centuries, all for there to be a rar, 7z, or zip inside.

            Who needs μtorrent when μ could just use 7Zip?

            • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              3 months ago

              Who uses uTorrent anymore lol.

              Use qbittorrent, download torrents with a good amount of seeds from reputable trackers and your speeds should be significantly faster than direct downloads. It’s not 2002, you don’t need to download NFS for the PSP split across 100 .rar files from Mediafire or turbobit (or megaupload if you were lucky).

            • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              3 months ago

              uTorrent is an application, torrent is a protocol, zip is a file format. You’re comparing apples to oranges to zebras here.

              Anything that downloads slow is because there are few seeders and they have bandwidth that is either limited or saturated.

              I personally gave up on torrenting when 80%+ of them wouldn’t start downloading even when there were apparently many active seeders. I still pay for my vpn just in case, but I haven’t even had a client on my machine in over 18 months and I can’t recall when I fired it up before that.

              I just pay for streaming services. All I really miss is the blu-ray quality.

              • Like the wind...@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                3 months ago

                I’d buy Photoshop and Dreamweaver 2020 editions once.

                I’m not paying a subscription.

                I pay for Microsoft 365 as the integration on Windows is seamless. Just make a onedrive folder my default folder for an application and it’s already backed up, easy! And I can access it from any device in at least 5 minutes. Easy. I literally pay for onedrive storage, so the office applications are a awesome side benefit.

                If I wasn’t a onedrive user, I’d pirate office applications as well.

  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’m not cool enough or interesting enough for this problem. Most of my shit is pirate bay top 100 at some point

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Five as well. A bunch recently cleared out for no explicable reasons (other than seeders mysteriously showed up).

    I recently turned to piracy after being a dedicated ‘churner’ keeping only on service a month. So I have a lot of catching up to do. Five miscellaneous things hanging out in the queue is no problem.

  • Zier@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    I had 2 for over 1.5 years. I gave up. They are rare and the seeds died.

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    None? Huh maybe I’m lucky. I use Rutracker, therarbg, nyaa and occasionally in a pinch a 1337x mirror (I know I know).

  • metaStatic@kbin.earth
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    3 months ago

    I’m a 1 at a time kinda guy, so nothing really gets stuck in a queue. but I haven’t had to give up on anything so far this year.

  • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    No longer stuck but Iron Monkey took about 2 months on/off until I got the whole thing. I try to seed where I can but internet isn’t the best and sometimes there just isn’t a lot of demand. That one’s at 0.07 right now because not a lot of people downloading

  • Zanathos@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    About 3 years ago I got tired of stuck torrent queues and spent a few hours learning what Usenet is and it’s various components. A little learning curve compared to torrents, but very comparable in the end. The only major difference is having to pay for a Usenet provider VPN and potentially subscribing to Usenet boards for membership.

    I bought a yearly sub to a provider and lifetime sub to a very well know board. I justify the cost as money that would be wasted on a subscription service, except half the yearly cost. Usenet is now the primary download in my arr stack with torrent as a backup.

    In my experience Usenet performs much faster than torrent, and there’s no seeding requirement at all. Just grab and go. And it seems to have about 90% of what I’m looking for, from anime to old shows\movies (1950s to 20XX).

    • Jayb151@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Is Usenet something that’s available for free? I’ve sailed the high seas for decades, but never gotten into Usenet

      • Zanathos@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        It may have been at one time but you now need to pay for a VPN or “Usenet provider” to connect to them. I pay yearly $70 for my Usenet provider and another $70 for my private VPN for torrents. There was a one time cost to my board of $100, but it’s a lifetime pass I got on 50% sale during the holidays. Both would equate to roughly one year of a single subscription service if you wanted to dock your boat on a single island.

    • BigPotato@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I’ve tried a few times to really wrap my head around Usenet and I’ve got a couple of bookmarked tabs but… Man, I even had trouble setting up the arrs. My brain might be a bit too smooth these days.

      • Zanathos@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        The arr setup is confusing at first, but once you get one the rest are lock-step. I suggest checking out prowlarr which will simplify your indexer setup on the arrs. I’m sure there’s a YouTube around that you can follow along too. Don’t give up!

    • hogmomma@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I was introduced to Block News a number of years ago, myself. I have since switched to an unlimited account. Usenet has absolutely transformed how I pirate. Once it’s set up, it’s so much easier, quicker, and safer.

      • Zanathos@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Agree. I’ll need to check out Block News and see if they have any lifetime sales around the holidays. I bought a lifetime for my current board a few years ago for half price. Well worth it!