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[–] tenchiken@anarchist.nexus 3 points 1 hour ago

Feels a bit off the mark... The private tracker communities I frequent seem pretty lively.

Public torrents were never something I understood for anything not open source.

Leeching is just a minimal issue to be dealt with by community blocking. Most communities are flexible in the rules to allow for providing in other ways if constant uploading isn't an option.

I suspect the joke here is that there's always someone trying to bitch about leeching. The Internet has always been trash, blah about the good ol days etc.

Maybe people just idolized the way they initially learned and now blame others when changes happen.

Remember kids, advertising is evil and copyright infringement is the only ethical solution.

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Dude holding the horseshoe magnet is a chef's kiss detail

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

I have never been good about seeding because my old laptop sucked and I rarely torrent stuff and dont really underestand what the ettiquite is or what seeding actually entails. I always kinda worried it'd keep my computer awake all the time and like use battery, or consume computational resources while I'm trying to use it

Anyone wanna give me the lowdown on seeding, etiquette, and what to expect? I'd like to be better about it, but I don't have anyone to really learn this stuff from 😅

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Posting generational memes from 2016? That's a bold choice.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Tbf, torrenting without seeding is currently relevant, given the Facebook AI lawsuit in progress..

As for making it a generational thing, that's a decision by the artist that I personally don't agree with 🤷

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

Don't younger people prefer streaming and direct download pirate sites to torrenting anyway

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 52 minutes ago

Oh yeah. All my coworkers talk/ask about "sites" which are just streaming sites filled to the absolute brim with ads and all the videos are low bitrate. Kinda sad ngl