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It is getting bad though. Less piracy means it’s much harder to find long tail films. The number of seedless torrents on private trackers is much higher now tha
by krrrh 8y ago
It is getting bad though. Less piracy means it’s much harder to find long tail films. The number of seedless torrents on private trackers is much higher now than it used to be.
- petra 8y agoLong tail is a failure point of the torrent system. And it feels it's possible to solve, by someone with good programming skills , and some cooperation from a popular bittorent software.
- ghaff 8y agoHow is it a programming issue? The content needs to be hosted (in a decentralized way). And, as a given title becomes less less popular--because it's older or people are just generally not torrenting as much--the odds that someone will have it available for downloading decreases. Essentially torrenting depends on people randomly making content available as sort of a quid pro quo and and streaming makes using torrents generally less interesting for a lot of people.
- petra 8y agoYou're right. But: The basic idea is this: Let's say i once downloaded long-tail file X. Me sharing it for years and years isn't the default. But what if it was ? what if this was built into one of the popular torrent clients , and i would have to opt-out to change it ?
- ghaff 8y agoWell, in addition to using your bandwidth, it's exposing you to potential copyright claims through your ISP if the sharing is discovered. So there are good reasons why people don't necessarily want share files willy-nilly. I'd very leery of a torrent client that defaulted to potentially unsafe--for me--behavior.
- petra 8y agoRe Copyright claims: it's a good point. Some countries have tough ISP's and laws. But in other places, this isn't a big issue. But to share a file, usually you have to keep it in your file list - and that takes up visual space, attention, and bandwidth/storage, so you just delete it. But what if the software limited bandwidth/storage for such files to 5% of your total, and managed that in a way that wouldn't clutter or take any attention ? Maybe in a different tab - so you'd still have full control, if needed ?
- Ruthalas 8y agoTo my understanding, some torrent sites have methods to incentivize downloading (and seeding) torrents whose seed-count is getting low. For example, one offers a multiplier on seed credit for low seed-count torrents, and another does the same but also prominently features a small selection of them in the front page (programmatically) to motivate users to preserve them. The underlying issue persists, but there are some methods to address it, and perhaps more could be devised.
- crtasm 8y agoOne factor may be people making space for UHD discs, but unless you try requesting reseeds on the unseeded files I'm not sure you can read that much into it.