I'm finally at a place where I can aim for a 1.0 ratio, but I've noticed that a lot of the stuff I torrent just uh...is not very popular lol. Some of them haven't had a single peer in months! It's kinda fun keeping an eye on it, sorta like a popularity contest.

It's ironic, as seeding is the part that the state can get you for. Ripping the original is illegal, distributing it is illegal, but taking the rip is not, at least in my country.

Not my fault. My isp blocks port forwarding and I usually end up with 0 peers after reaching 100%

I hate that a ratios on the private tracker I joined are so bad. I feel dishonest.

My public torrents routinely have 10-25 times the ratio.

I now seed all files I download for as long as I have them to make up for the decade I had dogshit upload speeds and couldn't seed for shit

Torrenting in Germany is DANGEROUS. Piracy is in general harshly prosecuted here but "one click downloads" are in a gray zone. That means while you can download everything you want, Uploading is very illegal and henceforth seeding.

This is also the reason why i didn't seed my Linux back. Nobody in the world knows if i am allowed to seed proprietary software but if i am unlucky, that means pain.

I'm getting into torrenting. I still need to learn how to put torrenting in a docker container and place a VPN arround it.

Im offended im in this comic.

Or get this: don't seek external material gains from other humans. You open yourself to manipulation and exploitation through these desires, but whatever you downloaded, you will use up, and be bored again.

But now you technically owe someone.

When you live in a country where upload speeds are abysmall even when download speeds are ok, you learn to heavily throttle torrent uploads lest you ruin the internet for your entire household.

New to piracy, what is seeding a torrent?