Do you help keep torrents alive?

If there are a billion seeds/peers then no, if it is very rare with single digits, then usually up til my ratio is 5.
 
wez130 said:
I believe you are right dmpoole, it's usually those who share that are caught / fined. Maybe it's easier to prove?
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Not easier to prove

The law states that the act of sharing copyrighted material is illegal. apparently downloading is not by what I was led to believe.

Which means the seeders are breaking the law if it is copyrighted but the downloaders are not hence they don't get prosecuted.
 
No. You're at a much higher risk of getting in trouble if you are actively distributing the copyrighted material than if you are just downloading it.

I never have and I never will. Not that it matters, I have Usenet anyway. :)
 
Private tracker I use, I seed to 3:1. On Public's 1:1 mostly via a 30mb/3mb cable connection. Not used Usenet since about 2001 iirc.
 
I seed private torrents until I have enough "credits" to buy back what I've downloaded, so I can keep my ratio at 1:1 since it's virtually impossible to actually keep a ratio of 1:1 or above without a decent upload/seedbox.

On public trackers I just download and remove the torrent.

uTorrent shows my Download:Upload as 2.25TB:790GB.

I've used usenet (VMs free service) and I don't really see any advantage over torrents, I'm not going to be prosecuted for uploading via torrent so I see no reason to actually pay money to pirate stuff.

As for rapidshare etc. well, they're just a bit crap compared to torrents/usenet imo, and there's no way I'd actually pay to use it.
 
I downloaded from private trackers 99% of the time and always keep the torrents on there for days as it is very hard to maintain ratio when you download at 2mb p/s and upload at 220kb p/s :p

However, on the odd occasion I do download from a public tracker I hit and run, and worse still I always limit that torrents upload whilst its downloading lol sorry guys :D
 
Robbo said:
No. You're at a much higher risk of getting in trouble if you are actively distributing the copyrighted material than if you are just downloading it.
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I'm at no risk either way... where do people get this idea that all torrenting is wrong and illegal? It's just a clever way of getting around the 'speed limit' of HTML, and a way of making large files available without expensive server running or bandwidth costs. Downloading copyrighted material via torrents is illegal, but so is downloading copyrighted material via HTML.
 
Newsgroups are either pay or limited to crappy download speeds like 500 kb/sec or so, torrents at least you can download at normal 2011 speeds rather than 2001 speeds without paying:

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Okay, public torrents usually limit at about 3-4mb/sec for the healthiest ones, but I have reached 14 mb/s on private torrent sites, no free news server can beat that kind of speed.

If I want to max out my 120 mbit download I'd have to pay, and why if it can be done for free with torrents ?


Anyhow, ontopic, public is easy to upload so usually stop em over 1.0, on my main private site I'm : '' Ratio: 1.165 '', harder to reach full upload speeds due to ratio requirements and everyone uploading. Not saying the numbers in TB :p :o.
 
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i tend to only seed until my downloads are finished, but sometimes i leave them downloading whilst im away so i probably seed for a few hours afterwards and dont even realise it.
 
iviv said:
For private trackers you shouldn't actually overseed. Get to a 1:1 ratio, perhaps 1:2 at most before you stop seeding. Otherwise you actually hurt the community. Because if you're seeding then other guys who need the ratio more can't seed, though this only really applies to highly populated torrents.
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That's your point of view. A SysOp would want you to seed as much as possible so the very people who can't a forced to pay or 'donate' for upload credit. Failing that they'll be banished to make way for people who will.

It by no means hurts the community though.
 
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