• Dessalines@lemmy.mlM
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      9 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.

    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      Lots of people don't have the storage space to keep every piece of media that they download. Once it's been watched or listened to, it's deleted.

      Depending on the torrent, it's faster to consume it than to seed it.

  • PoliticalCustard@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Yep, I set 2 for public trackers. I'm not very good at holding onto stuff for long periods of time, but I just got my first seedbox on Saturday so that may change. I am also kicking myself for not getting a seedbox years ago, it's so good... and holy hell the speeds are amazing.