"Good" is in the eye of the beholder. Have you considered that the quality hasn't changed much, but instead you've become more discerning as you age? I certainly have far less tolerance for the stupid shit I used to think was funny long ago.

That was fun back in the day when movie studios blamed piracy for their movie performing badly, so someone checked and their movie was barely present or downloaded on the high seas.

Unfortunately BitTorrent clients are kinda messy and don't make it easy to maintain a long term seeding library. I've moved to qbittorrent which is a bit better than Deluge on that regard, but it's still not great.

Eh, mine's linuxmint-20-cinnamon-64bit

Damn, I am only at a ratio of like 10 from some season packs of Chuck and The Mentalist. 565 is crazy!

you're the hero we don't deserve

True, unless you're the only one seeding a particular thing. It's good to keep media alive and available, especially obscure stuff.

Valid, although I prefer the 24/7 seed to infinity method.

Depends on the torrent tbh, if it has loads of seeders already i don't really care.

A better way is to just limit connections and upload speed and seed forever. If your total connections is like 25 and your max upload is like 100 KB/ps, it doesn't affect your internet or anything although you should use a VPN and stuff, and it helps to keep those files out there with a complete source for a long time.

Why would you do that? We should all keep on seeding as long as possible.

The more seeders, the likelier I'll probably give 2.0.
But I'll keep everything seeded as long as I have storage available.

Highest I've seeded before stopping was 2000x, on about 30 or so titles. And everything from my home connection lol

Used to do this but now feel like it's a net positive to just let it go and be a bigger cog in the antimachine.

I leech because i have a 1mbps upload speed and if i'm uploading using that then my download speeds tank rendering my connection useless.

I'm moving in the next year and when i get a place with more than ADSL you bet i'm setting up a seedbox

Sounds like you grew up and your hardware did too!

Not everyone is able to seed unfortunately. Here the downloading aspect although not allowed seeding is when you can receive fines.

Hence I cross seed everything to I2P.

Of course only Linux ISOs 😉

We could call it breeding instead

There’s microplastics in my magnet link.

It's more like trees.

Yeah, but you still seed while you download

JFC people, use protection

96% effective when done perfectly but 80% effective on average?

Has the law in any jurisdiction determined that sharing some small fraction of bits is equivalent to sharing an entire series of bits? And how do they determine that? Like I’m sending 1s and 0s right now. Is that a violation?

Coitus interruptus

One of the few latin expression I memorized, because that's how the Catholic Church calls it since that's their recommended "contraception" method, all of which I find hilarious.

That’s… not how it works. A law firm rep (usually) just has to connect to the swarm and see what IPs are there. It matters not if you share, being in the swarm is enough for them to send your ISP a notice of infringement. So as others said, use protection.

I mostly seed stuff that's on the verge of being lost media and my ratio is often insane because there just aren't other seeds. Ironically for many old/unpopular films the Internet Archive is a lot better than any torrents.

The comment on this internet archive review in particular had me laughing.

Have you checked if you have the port used by your torrent software forwarded?

Ones with pp are peak