Comment on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding

• 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Seeding shouldn’t be done on ratios - being the only one seeding 10 seasons of a tv show and getting it to 0.4:1 is way more helpful than seeding the same movie as everyone else and getting to 20:1

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  • Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’d you are the only one seeding it and get to 0.4, you just left others hanging with incomplete downloads.

    However I do agree in general

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    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s what I’m saying

      It’s better to not even half-way seed a torrent with low availability than it is to seed one that everyone else is seeding, regardless of how high your ratio goes - it’s a point on how pointless it really is to waste your resources seeding something like that

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The lazy approach is the best approach IMO. Seed everything, and if the ratio gets high, drop it. That way you get rid of useless popular torrents and keep the less popular ones. If everyone does that, things will work better.

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  • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Seeding to ratios is self correcting, in my inexperienced opinion as I only share ISOs.

    Unpopular thing sits on someone’s computer (not mine) for ages just happily waiting until it’s useful. Popular thing is in and out. Purely for files intended to be churned; try a distro (in facebooks case a book) use it, and delete it.

    1:3 could be said to be a minimum (1 for to pay back, 1 to pay forward, and 1 to pay for a leecher)

    Things that are going to be archived can be set as limitless as long as strain on hardware can be tolerated.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What hardware strain are you concerned about? Seeding is just a read, which is pretty gentle on hardware, especially if it’s an SSD.

      The bigger concern IMO is saturating your bandwidth, making other things perform poorly, but then you can just cap bandwidth.

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      • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Me? None. But I left room for someone who might.

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• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Hey now some of us just have wildly shit upload speeds and couldn’t hope to reach 1:1 without spending an entire year seeding a single movie.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s a big part of why I stick with my ISP. My download speeds aren’t super competitive for the price, but my upload is half my download, which is nice.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah, I always went for 2:1. It doesn’t really cost me anything, so why not?

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