I have five.
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.
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just one ‘oh god (1977)’
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.
Its been 48 years, it’s time to give up /s
I don’t pirate anymore since I had to pay 1000€
my life sucks now.
Did it actually affect your life more than having to pay a fine?
yes, I now have to use shitty streaming sites that are slow, unreliable and have absolutely no “rare” content. Also I won’t be able to build a collection, which leaves me feeling incomplete and miserable. I don’t know why this bothers me so much, but it does.
i2p
Ouch, where?
Bet it’s Germany lol
yup! Germany. Warner Bros came for me.
100% Germany, my sister got hit with almost 3k€ for torrenting Young Sheldon 🤦
The real crime here is pirating Young Sheldon.
Out of curiosity, were you using a private tracker? VPN? Just interested in the circumstances. Obviously something anyone who downloads has in the back of their minds. I remember getting a letter 20+ years ago, addressed to my dad from Verizon, to cut it out. I got smarter after that, or so I think.
no, I was 15… well I still am, it wasn’t that long ago, and I had been torrenting for 3 years, I believe, nothing ever happened. I also didnt know anything about private trackers, I tried getting into it once, but practically anything that costs money I would have to ask my parents for, and I’m too shy for that. Anyways, I was always saying “yeah I’m gonna get a VPN…” never did. Now my parents had to pay the price for that. I might get a VPN when I get my own bank account and stuff… in 3 years, so I’m responsible for it.
Well sorry to hear that dude, I was also probably fifteen when I got my letter from Verizon, maybe 16 or 17. Don’t let the passion for sticking out to the man fade, but not doing it on Mom and Dad’s Internet is commendable.
I have found that, if you restart your bittorrent client, or if you switch up your VPN connection, it can get things moving again. Not sure why.
Same here. I normally have qbittorrent running 24/7, but typically shut it down and grab a different VPN server once or twice a week. It seems to affect uploads more than downloads though.
Stuck torrents aren’t really a huge deal for me, because I’ve usually got at least a couple weeks worth of backlog. But it is frustrating when I pop open the client and see like 3Gb of upload activity that day, when I have hundreds of things seeding.
I have probably 2 or 3 stuck for movies, and thousands stuck for music. Radarr and lidarr adds them automatically, and after many months, they do actually finish downloading
You might check out aoulseek for music. There is a surprising amount of content available there.
I use soulseek too.
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
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I would recommend at least giving it a day or two. Sometimes the last seeder is someone who only seeds at night to avoid congestion on their LAN or save power or whatever
I’m a night seeded. My VPN has, rarely, dropped me off zoom calls, and it has a deleterious effect on my work. So nighttime it is.
You can use split tunneling so only your torrent client gets routed through the VPN
I have like two because I chose nordvpn and they don’t have the ports open for DHT to work properly. My sub ends in November and I’ll switch to Proton is the world is still turning.
I had 2 for over 1.5 years. I gave up. They are rare and the seeds died.
If I didn’t delete them like 16
None since I don’t have access to my self-hosted server at the moment due to personal circumstances, so I shut it down. I miss my server.
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.
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).
Is Usenet something that’s available for free? I’ve sailed the high seas for decades, but never gotten into Usenet
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.
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.
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!
I’ve seen indexers offer lifetime deals, but not Usenet providers. Best of luck!
Doh, that’s what I meant. I have an indexer lifetime, not provider.
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.
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!
I’m on Usenet too mostly. sometimes easier to get a torrent for a whole series.
I thought usenet was a message board from the '90s.
Technically still is the same usenet, now with more content!
How does one go about entering the exciting world of usenet?
