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A few months ago I grabbed this torrent from rarbg, and it took weeks to download. Often going days with no seeders.
I finally got it, and decided I'd seed beyond my usual 2x to help others get this. Then rarbg went under, and now I think I'll just keep this one going.
What client is that you're using here? UI seems nice
And this is why I backup all the torrents I download. If I lose the drive, they might not be seeded anymore and I won't be able to re-download everything. There's stuff in my collection that was hard to find 5 years ago.
Is there a specific way you backup torrents? Or do you just drop them in a folder?
The only sane way to have a backup would be a NAS with raid 1. Other than that? Yeah, just drop them in a folder. The other dude probably just has them on an external drive, if that fails they are gone.
Had that with a few movies recently which took about a week to download. I removed my limits for those, I'm only at a ratio of 5 or smth on those tho. Still, it's honest work
Now if only torrenting wouldn't mean an automatic 500€ invoice from a very specific law firm in my country :(
sounds like pure intimidation to me.
1/ one could have "never received this letter"
2/ one could decide not to pay, and then what? will they go to court? based on what evidence?
3/ if it ever goes to court, "i don't know, i wasnt even home that day" should always work no?
i don't understand while in some countries (actually only one that i know of, Germany) people seem to be terrified by this lawyer's spam...
Oh no it isn't. Walldorf Frommer is well known to send "Unterlassungerklärungen" which you have to answer. It will go to court if you do not work against this. You normally need your own lawyer to defuse what they send you.
Also, if you are in court, there is the concept of "Störerhaftung" which is a wet dream for everyone suing you for copyright infringement. They will have your IP and the time, thus your address. Now you either have to name someone who did do it, or if you can't you will automatically be liable.
This isn't any intimidation, it is one company using the laws in place here to fuck you majorly over. There are a lot of stories about this and if you seed on any public tracker you WILL get a letter.
How effective are VPNs at preventing this? I've heard it recommended the most as a counter measure.
VPN's solve this problem completely. This law firm looks at the IP's of seeders and if they are german they request the personal details from the respective ISP.
If it's an IP of a (reputable) VPN they don't achieve anything and if it's not a german IP they can't do anything anyway.
They mostly go for the easy targets since that's their easy business.
This is the way. qBittorrent even has an interface option. You can set that to your VPN and it's basically a killswitch. I've still got mullvads killswitch option enabled on top of it tho. It just cuts your internet connection, if you ever drop the connection to their servers.
For about 5€ a month you can free yourself from these risks
Really 5 EUR: https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/products/vpn/#pricing
They base off Mullvad which removed the ability to forward ports, not the 1st choice for P2P, but anything else
I didn't understand. Aren't all ports go through the encrypted traffic once I start a vpn?
They do, but if you can't forward a port nothing can get to you from outside, which you want with P2P, per default anything from outside is blocked.
If two people with no port forwarding meet, they aren't able to connect, one side has to have an open port, so you're missing many peers and seeders and you can counter this by being the one with the open port so anyone is able to connect to you.
Alle meine Zuhausis hassen Waldorf Frommer!
Denen soll ne ente aus'm Arsch kriechen.
can you come back and tag this post with the correct language? would be neat
I'm trying but the save button just loops endlessly..
What difference does it make? Aren't you able to see the comment?
It's not so huge a concern right now, but it lets people that write userscripts write, say, a userscript to automatically translate a post into your preferred language from the post's language.
Such a thing would be easier if the userscript could trust that a post is set to the language it's written in.
This load circle thing is it implicitly failing due to you not having selected Deutsch as one of your languages in your profile (most likely).
There are other things it could be as well.
Interesting! I tried it a bit more:
Seems like it's a problem with this comment in particular, but I can't figure out why!
Edit: I found another comment set to "Deutsch", written in german, that can't be changed no matter what.
If you are going throught feddit.de there might be limitations on the languages you can select for comments. I think only German and undetermined are possible there.
Jo, seitdem zieh ich nur noch über OCHs
Is quality worth the 50gb?
I don't have any fancy speakers or monitor...
Try it out and see for yourself if it's worth it to you.
Even with fancy gear some people don't appreciate higher quality, i'm somewhat jealous, because that would save me so much money.
Yay.
Sometimes certain debried like Alldebried might be able to get you the torrent without any seeding p2p.
But they might be a paid service so that's up to you.
That chance is so low that you might even safe money just buying what you're looking for
God, back in uni with free electricity and internet in the dorms, we managed to seed over a terabyte of data before IT got suspicious and turned off that port. Then we seeded over slower wifi until they turned the port back on next semester, haha. Good times.
That was where we learned that the pirated copies of stuff were easier to find, higher quality, and worked on hardware that websites declared "too old" to stream their content. It all started when we had a bunch of people over to watch a movie, and Amazon refused to play it on older hardware. It instantly converted half a dozen people to piracy, lol.
Like Gabe Newell once said, piracy is a service problem.
The last two things I pirated were No One Lives Forever, a game that's completely delisted on all storefronts, and Ratchet & Clank, because Sony can't figure out how to add the PS2 versions of games to the PS5 and I refuse to stream it (data cap) or lug around my PS3.
Both I would've purchased legally had they not made it a pain in the ass.
Fun fact: This movie is on the 4k movies google drive
What Google drive are you talking about
I'd love to find a good alternative to Rarbg, truly the end of an era
TorrentGalaxy is the closest I've found so far.
and it getting where rarbg was, i can find similiar release, imdb links, there is a tab with lates releases etc.