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Please seed !! Public torrents need your help

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

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  • As another public only user, gotta emphasise this. I'm on a pretty quick fibre connection, so luckily it's not a bother for me to get really good ratios but every little helps folks!

  • 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 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!

    • 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!

  • After I've gotten 1gbit fiber I tend to try and hit ratio 1000:1 on anything I seed. Back when I was on xDSL connections before fiber, I tried to hit 1.1:1 because my thinking was if everyone tried to do that, there'd literally never be data loss.
    I recently tried getting "The Sinking of the Laconia" miniseries and it took 8 days to get it. But I'm not member of a private tracker where it was available anyway, so sometimes public is better as long as one is patient.

    • I've been seeding for over 3 years. I only have a torrent that got up to 980 of ratio, if I remember correctly

      • EDIT: I am pretty happy about the one at 755 ratio. 78GB * 755 = 57TB. That alone is 35% of everything I've uploaded since I installed qBittorrent in February.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 download location and media library location must be on the same storage device, and the Sonarr user must have write access to the downloaded file. For me, group write access didn't help. 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. My area's authority and ISP don'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.

  • magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2e9aa7e3b949238ed2db6cfc6f0f45a743a3bf54&dn=Machine%20Gun%20Fellatio%20[3%20Albums]

    • Really appreciate the response, thank you. I do actually have those 3 albums (bought the CDs), I'm more chasing the rarer stuff. But that link will get added and seeded now

  • 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

      EDIT

      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

  • Unfortunately, I am behind CG-NAT, so it always barely uploads anything.

    I wish it could work like WebRTC or Tailscale. There could just be servers like the trackers, but to help establish this direct connection between peers.

    • Airvpn supports port forwarding. Well, other do too, but im only familiar with that one. I suggest you look into it; even just for privacy

  • I have a seedbox and have been using private trackers for well over a decade. I seed forever, or until I need space.

    When I cannot find something on one of my private trackers I do look on public trackers. I find the experience lacking.

    My issues with public trackers:

    1. Search sites are sketchy af. Between pop up ads and fake direct download links, it can be challenging to find whatever you are looking for.
    2. Files can be poorly tagged or completely named wrong. The number of times I have downloaded not porn only to find porn can be counted on one hand, mostly because the other hand is busy.

    Anyway, I will gladly seed until the end of time if a public torrent search site exists that can get me the content I want without making me need a shower after.

    • Try rutracker, genuinely a excellent public tracker. Entirely in Russian but Google translate deals with that easily.

    • Search sites are sketchy af

      Jackett solves that issue

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