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Good thing you have all those "data hoarders" to leech off of when you wanna download something tho...

• pyhtel 4y ago
  He's using usenet, I highly doubt he's seeding the data he holds
• omnimus 4y ago
  Great that they are so obsessive. I think its fair if you seed enough and then get off and delete.
• Mo3 4y ago
  He's on usenet, not torrenting. No need to keep or seed anything. OP is hoarding and attributing negative consequences of his own decision to a concept itself.
  • Cyph0n 4y ago
    And who do you think reuploads stuff after DMCA/NTD takedowns?
    • Mo3 4y ago
      Im aware some people are busy hoarding data and providing it back to the ecosystem in these cases, but I fail to understand why or how the cost of this personal decision is in any way related to the cost of piracy, or why someone with this hobby would feel the need to complain about it, or publicly associate these costs with piracy itself. That’s illogical. It’s like mirroring Wikipedia on S3 and then publicly stating or even complaining that using Wikipedia costs hundreds of dollars.
      • pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
        My copy of wikipedia is less than 100GB at the moment.
        • Mo3 4y ago
          Okay? And how is that relevant to the core issue at hand... hoarding all of this data is your own personal decision and has nothing to do with piracy in itself. That's the issue. You are obviously free to do whatever you want, but hoarding data and then associating the cost of the hoarding with the source of the data is totally illogical. Trying to one-up me on some stupid explanatory comparison makes me wonder if you are not simply deflecting responsibility off yourself and actually do hoard pathologically
          • pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
            I'm not complaining about the costs associated with this. I'm living well within my means. If I was concerned about the money I could probably spend more of my time to find the content on sketchy streaming sites like putlocker. I'm not sure why so many of the replies in this article are trying to interpret my post as some kind of call for help. My point was that piracy is a service problem.
            • Mo3 4y ago
              Again.. You are obviously free to do whatever you want, but hoarding data and then associating the source of the data with the cost of your data hoarding is totally illogical. Your personal expenses for hoarding data, or the practice of hoarding data, have nil correlation to piracy itself. To add to this at this point, > Streaming services still have significant service problems that need to be addressed. This connection is irrational as well - the name "streaming services" already implies that content is being streamed for viewing and not downloaded for storage. If you are under a different assumption, or concerning other issues with streaming services, yes, piracy might be a service problem, but on the other hand, there are options available to actually buy and download content that you can also store. Really, these associations you are seeing are incredibly irrational and this might be a contributing factor to people assuming this would be a call for help. I do not assume it is, data hoarding is not necessarily a problem in itself, but that doesn't make your invalid associations any more valid.
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• bcrosby95 4y ago
  I don't use BitTorrent anymore, but when I did my rule of thumb was to have at least a ratio of 1.0, or continue seeding it for a month, whichever happened first. After which I would feel fine deleting it.
• philistine 4y ago
  My seeding ratio is in the positive! I keep the downloaded file and seed until I hit 2.00, then it's gone. I have to convert and move the original file for my TV anyway, so sometimes the file will be gone from my library, but I'm still seeding the original for a while afterwards.
  • heikrana 4y ago
    Just reached 5.0, more than 12 TB up. Feels great :D.
• vmception 4y ago
  Exactly, my favorite thing about torrents (and usenet) is the community of making requests for obscure content