this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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100%, as well as DMCA take down requests, and needing to often pay for indexer and provider.
That being said I still think it's far superior to torrents, though I do maintain a good ratio on a large private tracker for those odds and ends I can't get on Usenet.
I dont have the willpower to maintain good ratios. I'm an unapologetic leecher.
A lot of that has to do with my setup though. I only have a very small SSD to use for downloads, then the files get moved to spinning disks for storage. I tried to seed from HDD but it trashed my system.