Anon doesn't seed | TheaterFire

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LordVaderVader@reddit

When movie finishes downloading I delete torrent immediately, can't risk police on my back any second more.

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they either live in a regressive western nanny state (some US states, some Canadian states, UK, Australia) or China (IE are committing a crime by connecting to the 'free' internet, could be exposed by seeding long term)

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landartheconqueror@reddit

Canadian here, I've gotten emails from "pirate hunters" before for seeding torrents of game of throne (this is before VPNs were easily accessible)

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tyler111762@reddit

those are unenforceable in canada BTW.

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Terroractly@reddit

Australia truly does not give a fuck about torrenting. I don't even use a VPN across three different ISPs with no issues. The closest I saw was that TPG had blocked nyaa.si so you couldn't access it directly but had to go through one of its mirrors

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TheSunIsOurEnemy@reddit

It's always people from western countries who love to proclaim that they're civilized and free that are so deathly afraid of cops coming after them for the silliest things.

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fradddd@reddit

ya i basically have one option for internet in my home, not gonna risk losing that

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6spd993@reddit

There's only hell for the likes of Anon.

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WasteOfTimeAndEffort@reddit

Truly asking is not seeding a bad thing?

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tyler111762@reddit

seed until your downloaded/uploaded ratio is positive. then by all means disconnect from the torrent.

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BBtheboy@reddit

There is no reason not to, so yes

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SgtKwan@reddit

I mean it does use up your upload speed which kind of matters if you have low upload speed

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ckpwrson@reddit

idk i’m just paranoid that if i seed my torrents and then turn off my VPN my ISP is immediately going to assfuck me to oblivion

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YWNBAW12345@reddit

ISP does not care about torrenting. They're the ones who receive the "complaint" from Le Poor Innocent Labels, and Movie/Game equivalents.

But you're fine anyway. Seed when connected to VPN. Pause seeds when disconnecting. Or split tunnel. Or just get a raspberry pi.

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Male_Lead@reddit

does seeding ever stop? Or you just let it run? I dont know much about torrent

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windowpuncher@reddit

Those parameters are set in your program settings.

Often times seeding is stopped after you hit an upload to download ratio of 2:1 by default.

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fucccboii@reddit

you should seed the same as the torrent size

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casualbrowser321@reddit

From the seeder's perspective, seeding is just having the torrent app open after having finished downloading a file. When you download a torrent, you're able to download it because there are other people out there with that file who are also seeding it. The more available seeders, the easier it is for other people to download. So seeding is just passing it along to the next people that want to download it. In theory you could seed forever, and I think in practice it's considered good etiquette to at least keep seeding until your ratio hits 1.0, that is, if the torrent you downloaded was 1GB, you've seeded a total of 1GB to other users.

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_Mode7_@reddit

Or better: on qbittorrent you can bind it in the settings to the vpn. this stops any leaking, because it only can seed over the network interface of the vpn and stops when you disconnect/resumes when you reconnect.

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windowpuncher@reddit

deluge my beloved

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ShortTheseNuts@reddit

Don't make sweeping statements like this on an intentional forum. It's outright dangerous and can have very serious consequences for people. In a lot of countries they either care a lot or have to care a lot by law. My ISP is constantly hyper vigilant about torrenting and not only will it immediately cancel my internet forever, it has to and will forward it and all evidence to the police. Torrenting carries up to 2 years in prison if you're over 15. Even if they get a fine and probation they won't ever have a security clearance job for the rest of their lives.

So before you make sweeping statements that can ruin other people's lives, consider the audience.

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HayashiAkira_ch@reddit

Unfortunately they do care these days, especially if you’re using something like the ACA to get more affordable internet. They’ll take away your ACA benefits and you’ll have to pay a fuckton. I know this because it almost happened to me before I got a VPN.

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univrsll@reddit

They’ve always cared about seeding. Not sure what regard juice OC has in his gas station vape, but seeding will absolutely get you fucked and kicked off of an ISP.

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etheran123@reddit

It will, but in my experience and research, only after the ISP has sent you a million letters warning you to not be an idiot. They dont really care, but they do have to follow the law.

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616659@reddit

Yeah same, as much as I want to seed i can't risk myself getting caught because I don't want to stay on vpn all day long

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butteryasstreflip@reddit

data caps

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RedditPersonNo1987@reddit

there is literally a reason not to

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BackseatCowwatcher@reddit

depends on where you are in the world-

there are places where your ISP will unilaterally cancel your internet if you're caught

there are places where your ISP is going to tell you to knock it off or be shut off first

there's places where your ISP isn't going to give a fuck so long as you aren't downloading blatantly criminal crap (IE CP)

figure out where your ISP stands, before you consider seeding for any amount of time.

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knyexar@reddit

The only reason you were able to torrent the thing is because someone else seeded it. Downloading and not seeding is known as "leeching" and ge really considered poor manners

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Tone-Serious@reddit

If there's less than a dozen seeders then I'll leave it up but no point if there's like 50 of them

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bittercripple6969@reddit

Yes

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DMofTheTomb@reddit

I don't get it

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GoatRocketeer@reddit

Downloading pirated shit is dependent not only on your download speed, but also the upload speed on the other side.

Pirated shit is sometimes hosted by a big, well equipped, single individual but that makes it easy to shutdown. Torrenting is where pirated shit is hosted by other users, which is basically impossible to stop because you have to go after each hoster individually and ultimately the punishment will be a slap on the wrist. However, because these are just normal dudes on normal residential internet plans, the upload speed is gonna be slow as shit unless there are a lot of users hosting that resource.

Hosting pirated shit is known as seeding.

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casualbrowser321@reddit

It should be noted that torrenting/seeding doesn't have to be piracy. I've sometimes seem apps where the official website offers both a direct exe download as well as an option to torrent it

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Epikgamer332@reddit

I see this often with Linux distros, for whatever reason.

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LennySMeme@reddit

Typically the org/people behind them don't want to waste bandwidth on you downloading an iso because it costs money. It also isn't reliant on a third party hosting site like google or mega which is appealing to open source enthusiasts, which linux enjoyers are more likely to be.

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Walter_Padick@reddit

Person who pirates media does not care to share

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Scarab_Kisser@reddit

I'm gonna seed double the amount, so anon decision is irrelevant

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SpooderJockey@reddit

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Dqueezy@reddit

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JakeVonFurth@reddit

I see tower defense, I upvote.

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ed_xyz@reddit

Probably because weebs are bad, mkay.

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Deathgripsugar@reddit

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EliGon666@reddit

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JoshTheTrucker@reddit

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WintersbaneGDX@reddit

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home_rolled@reddit

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Bowman_van_Oort@reddit

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Absolutemehguy@reddit

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MetallGecko@reddit

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bigcig@reddit

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blackwhale420@reddit

Average Manitoban

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Soldierhero1@reddit

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TomSaylek@reddit

There's something perfect about Eddys (the fuck did you say) look

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zw1ck@reddit

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Mallixx@reddit

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mordecai14@reddit

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real_picklejuice@reddit

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Holy_Sword_of_Cum@reddit

The goverment itself uses piracy where i live and even in schools its literally common sense to just pirate something from the internet instead of paying for it

So i will never have a problem where someone will threaten me with a finr or something for pirating. I dont even use vpn while pirating most of the time

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SuchTesla@reddit

Russia?

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Holy_Sword_of_Cum@reddit

Good guess, but its turkey. The land of döner and goverment corruption.

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SuchTesla@reddit

Well at least you have döner, we just have corruption here with no döner

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notpornaccount_@reddit

Ok, you guys. The reason behind your issues is that you're getting your stuff from public sites. What you need is a private tracker. These are safe and actually require seeding for an amount of time/ratio.

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Parsa79@reddit

A true internet chad would leech from a public torrent, stops seeding as soon as they get the file and delete the torrent, then create and upload a safe torrent to private trackers and seeds them for as long as possible to help pirate homies safely get the file as well

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notpornaccount_@reddit

That is true. Quite a Chad.

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ncopp@reddit

Be 16 year old me

What's seeding?

Oh well, I guess I'll let it run.

Parent's get a cease and desist letter from comcast

Freak out and make me delete everything

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CirrusVision20@reddit

This legit happened to me once. It scared me enough to have my delete all my torrents and I never pirated another game since (besides emulation).

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shroomigator@reddit

If you have a fast wired connection you should be seeding

If you connect your laptop to the wifi in walmarts parking lot, you don't need to seed

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