10 years ago I went to private trackers that had extensive collections, everything with dozens of seeds. And you coukd seed whatever you download and it just wouldn’t get downloaded. It would use up your hdd space on the seedbox whipe nobody could download them either as tgat would wreck their ratios and get tgem banned.

I was so disgusted I never even tried join otger private trackers, time wasters the lot of them.

Also I’ve seen some disgusting thieves SELL ratio fixing at outrageous prices.

Of course intellectual property is stupid garbage idea. But pirates selling shit is so much worse. Even worse than the continued demonic existance of Disney.

Another strategy was to downloaded whatever just got posted and seed that before there were too many seeds.

A kind of ratio pump and dump rugpull.

Such shitty behaviour enabled by the pretense that space and bandwidth are limited ressources and then waste both of them to create an invisible paywall.!

  • stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    You said in another comment that you have a 100gb hd and a 4tb monthly bandwidth cap?

    Torrents probably aren’t the solution for you. Spend some time learning about newsgroups. It costs money but you aren’t expected to keep files after you download them or upload for everyone else.

    I think realdebrid also does this but it also costs money.

    You’re excluded from the informal economy because of your situation so you gotta participate in the formal economy. You could always buy a hard drive and set a bandwidth limit in your client too. I expect that would be cheaper over a year than either usenet or debrid.

      • stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        I’m not sneezing at it. It’s more than my use in a month, but I’m not trying to maximize my bandwidth use with 100gb of space.

        Just as a thought experiment let’s assume you’re able to use the maximum amount of total bandwidth in a month with your 100gb storage. That’s 40 complete write cycles a month on your ssd.

        Now there’s nuance to the idea of minimizing write cycles, the specific technology plays a big role and ssds that stay constantly powered on can avoid the worst degradation for a long time but:

        That’s 480 write cycles a year.

        No problem if you’re keeping the ssd always powered on, but you may end up with data loss if it’s in a laptop that gets turned off for a little bit.

        That’s why I said a hard drive may be cheaper than Usenet or debrid over the course of a year. Because it’s a solution that kills a lot of birds with one stone.