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
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.
How do I do that? It is extremely recently that I started using torrents.
To keep things simple, they must be left in the same location as wherever the download client puts them, and the client stays open. I use an organiser and very useful tool called Radarr, it monitors your downloads and it lets you hardlink the video files once they’ve completed, which both allows the download client to keep seeding, and the media server you may use to keep using it.
A hardlink involves some intimate knowledge of how storage works, it can be done manually but the best option is to let a program handle it for you. Note: To hardlink, the Sonarr user must have write access to the downloaded file. This way it will not duplicate storage.
Generally, some areas and Internet Service Providers might crack down on torrenting of any sort, so using a VPN is a smart way to not get your IP noticed. I’m in an area that doesn’t care, so I’m not too sure.
Just after you downloaded it. Keep the program open so you are seeing automatically… Meaning others can download the content from your computer. Assuming you correctly configured your firewall/router to open up the right ports.
I would love to seed but I can never seem to get my client and network setup to do it with any torrent I’ve tried. I’ve attempted everything I can find online, across different ISPs, computer builds, and OS instances. Can’t ever seem to get it working between all the different configurations.
Now I’m running a pfSense firewall on a FIOS connection, with Windows 10, and qBittorrent behind Proton VPN. Still haven’t been able to get even freeleech torrents to seed. I’ve tried a lot of clients and ports over the years. I think it may be something I’m doing wrong!
Maybe a dumb question, but have you enabled port forwarding in your torrent client and ensured that the VPN server you are connected to allows port forwarding? Proton has decent documentation on how to do this, but it’s not obvious if you didnt already know you needed port forwarding.
This had me tripped up for nearly a full year after I got back into torrenting.
I appreciate the suggestion. I have followed their guides, set up Proton VPN with their torrent servers involving ports to forward. I updated that port in the client and it still just sits there, staring at me with a 0.3 seed rate. I keep them up for at least 30-days (to appease my private tracker’s 2:1 seeds or 14-day offering) to no avail. I keep trying different things and just kind of accept it, for now. Maybe when I move to Linux as my daily driver I’ll have better luck in that field!
I’ve never noticed the lack of port forwarding actually impacting the ability to seed (I’m sure it’s slower and harder for peers to find you but if you’re actively downloading new things you’re constantly announcing on trackers and DHT and if you leave something reasonably popular to seed you’ll seed) but I am not a Proton user, I suppose they could be doing some kind of no seed crap like when Facebook was pirating to train its AI.
With paid sub, I believe, you can use Proton VPN with their torrent servers including ports they forward. It changes every time, however. I think it’s just me and Windows. I think I’m nearing the time to switch my daily driver to Linux and, if successful, I’ll move my server to a Linux distro soon after, as well!
ProtonVPN forwarded port is random on a new connection, it’s not that you’re using windows that this is the case.
Thanks for the comment. They have information on their site about how to set up various clients, including qBittorrent, to update the Proton VPN port. The issue is, it doesn’t work, so every time I reboot (seldom as this is a server machine with services running), I just have to update the connection port for qBt. I don’t doubt the port for both the VPN and qBt are the issue, but I also know that’s usually the first thing that gets pointed out when specifying trouble with some network-based, port-opening software.
Maybe I’m looking at a different guide than you, but I’m not seeing any way for qbittorrent to auto update the forwarded port from Proton. Everytime your VPN connection resets (either from reboot or just a dropped connection), you have to manually update the port in qbittorrent. Of course there are some scripts that can do this for you.
Hmm, you’re right. I just looked for the same article and I guess I was misremembering the content of the Proton VPN KB article.
curl -s --data 'json={"listen_port": "'"$port"'"}' https:/ /[your-instance-here]/api/v2/app/setPreferences
What @dmention7@lemm.ee wrote: qBittorrent can pretty easily punch a hole through your router if you can enable UPnP on it. Don’t forget to enable it in qBittorrent as well, although I think it’s on by default.
If that’s not an option, then you might have to spend a bit of time setting up port forwarding manually, which has always been a pain, but once you learn it, it’s quite easy.Appreciate the comment. I’ll confirm my uPnP settings in the firewall and client when I get home from work. I think they’re both enabled and Proton VPN has the port forward so that isn’t the hangup. This issue goes all the way back to my Limewire days, when torrents were just getting big and being targeted heavily by the RIAA and MPAA. I use IRC for most of my searches and only use torrents for hard to find things. I’d love to see stuff like Linux distros, the internet archives, and other seemingly important (legal) causes, if I can get them to work consistently.
And I gotta say, I love the attempted support by you and others. Peace, love, and humptiness, forever!
And I gotta say, I love the attempted support by you and others. Peace, love, and humptiness, forever!
Unfortunately not more I can do regarding the router, each one is different after all.
I use IRC for most of my searches and only use torrents for hard to find things. I’d love to see stuff like Linux distros, the internet archives, and other seemingly important (legal) causes, if I can get them to work consistently.
I don’t know which IRC/XDCC service you use, but I only recently heard of https://www.xdcc.eu/ which is pretty nice. Back when I watched anime in the early 00s I used to do most things via IRC, just so convenient to look up groups on like anidb.net (of course still possible, example: subsplease -> XDCC) and get it straight from the source.
I agree with Linux distros. I’d prefer that all of them used torrents besides their regular mirrors. Distrowatch has a tracker, and then there’s FOSStorrents, but there’s no guarantee ones distro of choice ends up there.
I’ve seen some people have issues with being able to punch qBittorrent through a VPN so that may be the first place to troubleshoot. Maybe Proton gatekeeps certain traffic? Other than that I can’t help, sorry.
Not a problem. I use IRC and Usenet (in the past) for most of my searches, but some things are too old to be on those and in any condition to work after download. Proton VPN provides specific servers for port forwards (maybe only on paid subs), but that makes no difference when I provide it to the client. The search for a fix continues!
One thing to check is whether you are receiving “Incoming” connections on other torrents (the I flag in Qbittorrent peer status). If you are, port forwarding is probably working, its just that maybe nobody in those torrents’ trackers and DHT are requesting it
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?
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
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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
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.
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 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.
Selfish asshole
I wonder who seeds those…
Bro. You are the problem OP is ranting about.
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.
Effect. Cause.
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
I download an iso image via torrent, that a way to “seed”?
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.
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
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.
Do you have a guide or do you mind explaining the best way to do this?
Please note that many countries don’t give a fuck about private-use piracy, so in many cases you don’t need a VPN.
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.
You see, the problem is that radar and sonarr move my files into designated folders. That is a good thing, but it also makes it so that my download client can’t find it again to continue uploading.
I have now set it up so that I keep a copy in my downloads folder for a week, but I don’t have the space to permanently keep two copies of all my downloads.
It would be great if radarr could tell my download client where the file has moved to so that it can keep on seeding indefinitely.
You can configure radarr and sonarr to use hard linking instead of moving the.
Yes, but hardlinking doesn’t work if the files aren’t on the same petition.
My downloads folder is on the main harddisk.
The files are moved to an external ssd.Have you looked into Remote Path mappings? I have not had to employ this myself, but my understanding is this allows you to avoid file duplication when your *arr and torrent client are using different filesystems.
Maybe I’m mis-remembering though…
I haven’t gotten around to finishing my stack but i could’ve sworn that’s the default behavior
I believe it is, but I don’t think it always has been. I’m not sure if they automatically enabled it for existing installs when it was added.
That only works if they’re on the same drive or petition.
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.
Once I have a job I’m going to rent a seedbox for public trackers. Fuck DMCA!
Why not build a seedbox for yourself?
Bandwidth & speed, mostly
I have fast internet for my area and they match my UL to my dl (a rarity) but my seedbox in the Netherlands had the capacity for 5x that bandwidth, meaning basically all of my torrents download lickety split and I’m usually high in the favored seeder list due to my connection, allowing me to quickly earn my ratio back
Not a bad idea, all things considered. The only issue is that I would need collo space and a VPS in non-DMCA land. The hardware behind a seedbox shouldn’t be that crazy anyways, just a lot of bandwidth and a lot of storage
