• Dessalines@lemmy.mlM
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      7 months ago

      Thank you for your service.

      Some people including OP are completely missing the point of torrenting, which is to share, not leech. If everyone removed their torrents like the OP, everything would quickly become unavailable and die.

      IMO a better strategy is to just limit your global upload speed. Then at least you’re still making everything healthy and available, even if its distributed slowly.

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        5 months ago

        Noobie question: Is keeping my PC running to seed torrents taxing on the HDD or would it shorten its lifespan?

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        7 months ago

        If everyone torrented like OP, then no torrent would ever become unavailable and die.

        Since they keep seeding until 2 users have the torrent.

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    6 months ago

    my ratio limit is 250… just because at that point i want to seed something else that is in queue.

    but i have upload capped at 30mbps, this way i do ~1TB upload per day.

    i can’t leave it uncapped or my ips will come knock on my door. but that’s on me for torrenting from a public ipv4 without any vpn

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    7 months ago

    if you snatch a popular torrent that is fine but with dying torrents that is quite harmful

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    7 months ago

    I’ve made it my mission to use as much data as possible since my ISP forced me to pay more when they implemented some arbitrary data cap. Gots keep seeding until I run out of space to store content!

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        7 months ago

        Seeding doesn’t take up more space, unless you were planning to delete the thing, which doesn’t make much sense.