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which trackers don't waste your hdd space while bandwidth goes unused? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I never understood why people prefer private trackers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Because they think it's fairer and less wasteful of the resources End result, fulled up hard drives with copies of things nobody downloads while the bandwidth goes unused

Meanwhile on public trackers I push out terabytes per months of data....

It's just a mismatch between how they imagine a system should work and how it actually works. They cannot believe someone would do the right thing without coercion, enforcement and manipulative economic compensation(ratio and rules)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just one reason better retainability and wider content selection. Idk what tracker OP is talking about but most good trackers nowadays have a Bonus Points system that benefits long term seeders. Yeah the problem of people downloading new freeleech torrents and deleting thing right after they are clear of HnR is still a thing is most if not all trackers but the good ones don't get affected much by it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hmmm I never had a problem finding what I want with public sources. Maybe my tastes in media are not refined enough.

There is no incentive but I also seed everything I download until at least ratio 2 but mostly without a cap especially obscure stuff.

I also like to not even use public trackers instead relying solely on the mighty distributed hash table (DHT) to find peers.