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> Serious question: why does anybody use Usenet for pirating rather than torrents? No need to seed which reduces legal liability and bufferbloat issues on line

> Serious question: why does anybody use Usenet for pirating rather than torrents? No need to seed which reduces legal liability and bufferbloat issues on lines with anemic upload speeds. Most torrent clients penalize peers that don't contribute to the swarm. It's also really convenient to plug in automated downloads with a decent index and sabnzbd.

RockRobotRock 2y ago
Automating *arr with torrents isn't too bad depending on which trackers you use.
- woleium 2y ago
  especially if you use debrid/premiumize
snickerbockers 2y ago
>Most torrent clients penalize peers that don't contribute to the swarm I agree with you and I also want to add that I've had problems with trackers penalizing me because i can't get my ratios up since hardly anybody is torrenting the same outdated 1980s mecha animes i am. I don't usually have troubles finding or downloading them because there's always at least one guy who has it on a seedbox running 24/7, but my ratio is guaranteed to be stuck at 0.0 forever. I actually got autobanned from a private tracker once because i downloaded a bunch of comic books which were all miniscule in terms of size and also extremely niche. this series was being distributed as one issue per torrent instead of a big archive torrent, with each torrent being on the order of a few MB. which resulted in me having several dozen torrents with a 0.0 ratio and therefore looking like a leech.
- pwg 2y ago
  > I agree with you and I also want to add that I've had problems with trackers penalizing me because i can't get my ratios up since hardly anybody is torrenting the same outdated 1980s mecha animes i am. Small trick. Pick one, popular, item that everyone wants now, pull it down and seed it. That will add to your ratio which can then be used to grab the obscure stuff that is hard to seed.
- szundi 2y ago
  Download free popular ones and keep them forever to seed.

RockRobotRock 2y ago

Automating *arr with torrents isn't too bad depending on which trackers you use.

woleium 2y ago
especially if you use debrid/premiumize

snickerbockers 2y ago

>Most torrent clients penalize peers that don't contribute to the swarm I agree with you and I also want to add that I've had problems with trackers penalizing me because i can't get my ratios up since hardly anybody is torrenting the same outdated 1980s mecha animes i am. I don't usually have troubles finding or downloading them because there's always at least one guy who has it on a seedbox running 24/7, but my ratio is guaranteed to be stuck at 0.0 forever. I actually got autobanned from a private tracker once because i downloaded a bunch of comic books which were all miniscule in terms of size and also extremely niche. this series was being distributed as one issue per torrent instead of a big archive torrent, with each torrent being on the order of a few MB. which resulted in me having several dozen torrents with a 0.0 ratio and therefore looking like a leech.

pwg 2y ago
> I agree with you and I also want to add that I've had problems with trackers penalizing me because i can't get my ratios up since hardly anybody is torrenting the same outdated 1980s mecha animes i am. Small trick. Pick one, popular, item that everyone wants now, pull it down and seed it. That will add to your ratio which can then be used to grab the obscure stuff that is hard to seed.
szundi 2y ago
Download free popular ones and keep them forever to seed.