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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ginza@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

A niche band from Asia I loved as a teenager disbanded in the early 2000s. Due to legal reasons their work is in forever limbo, no Spotify, official YouTube etc. Best you can get is 2nd hand CDs on online marketplaces for a premium.

One guy was seeding a 4GB torrent over on PirateBay from 2008 with every song, music video, numerous interviews etc. Reasons like this is why pirating needs to stay alive. Legend made me want to seed it with him longterm. Now we're 2 seeders strong.

Keep sailing pirates, and whenever possible please seed.

EDIT: For those asking the band is the Japanese band Malice Mizer. The torrent in question is https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=4158529 And I love seeing how a few of you guys know the band and getting hit by nostalgia. Enjoy

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[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

If only I had disk space but between 500 GB Skyrim VR and 500 GB msfs and few other such things my measly 5tb space is crowded.
And the problem with these big modded games is that once you uninstall it it is very time consuming to reproduce same result. Modded Skyrim VR for example modlist was long ago abandoned for something much smaller because it was impossible to maintain by the author. I need to buy some kind of oversized HDD and store such modded games maybe packing them with some kind of installer. It would be nice to rent cloud space for kind of custom steam for modded games.

I remember when 1tb was like a lot and nowadays I have like 20 of such disks around the house and still drowning in data, maybe because of around 15 tb of family photos and videos.

So with all that I feel like I have only 100gb for permanent seeding because that space goes first I guess. I am so drowning in data. Even have 4 old phones waiting perpetually for recovering data maybe it is gone already actually f knows. I think I need at some point to buy 50 tb drive for 1500 or so. Painful purchase but like I don’t see any other way

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[–] Packet@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Similar experience I had, a little over 2 people seeded castle knights, a little indie project that had dropped development a while ago. So sad for it to be gone like that, not finished. It was very cool to see a little army seeding the project still

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I should probably keep sharing Linux Isos longer than I do, but data hording has a low WAF. Instead I have prowlarr set the ratio to 3 (one for me, one for a leecher, and one to add to the pool) to keep the data churning.

[–] Findmysec@infosec.pub 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Get a seedbox with storage. About $5-$10 a month can get you quite decent boxes in torrent friendly countries

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A good general suggestion. The WAF I follow are 'reasonable' expense, reasonable form factor, and a physical investment. I floated the idea of a VPS and that's when I learned of the third criteria. It is what it is.

I just started on this 8tb HDD so it isn't very full right now, I could raise the ratio limits. But, I worry about filling the HDD and part of me worries about 100s of torrents on an n100 doing other things. So I'm keeping the habit from my pi4+1TB days of deleting media behind us and keeping the torrent count low.

I justify it as self managing though: popular Isos are on then off my harddrive fairly quickly, but the ones that need me will sit and wait until they hit the ratio of 3 however long that is. I would like to do "3 + (get that last seeder to 100%)" but I don't know how/if it's possible to automate through prowlarr.

[–] Findmysec@infosec.pub 2 points 3 months ago

I tend to seed rarer stuff till my ratio reaches 10, sometimes 15 on a case-by-case basis

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Decent but not in size. Not for those long seed times with big sizes.
500gb at best at the price.
And good luck getting seedboxes with unlimited upload

[–] Findmysec@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have seen seedboxes with 3, or maybe 4TB of storage under $10 (don't remember). And that's recent (about a month ago). Yes, unlimited uploads are definitely an issue. Such cases are best combated with buying an IPv6 slot and putting that on a VPS with a provider friendly to such things (they exist at reasonable prices)

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not if you want public trackers well.
But your point about ipv6 sounds interesting. Care to elaborate?

[–] Findmysec@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There are providers who are OK with public trackers and don't care about DMCAs.

In principle, torrenting over IPv6 is the same as doing it over IPv4, it's just that there's a lot of IPv6 addresses so you might find it cheaper to buy IPv6. Yes there are some differences in the technology but from purely an operational POV, it's not very different.

The reason I mentioned bringing your own IPs is related to the reason why providers don't like public torrents: it pollutes their IP space and puts their IP ranges on blacklists. But if you bring your own IPs, suddenly the provider (in theory) is safe and doesn't care as much. YMMV of course, send an email to your provider of choice to ask more.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

bring your own IP? Don't you need to register as someone with a node and do BGP routing protocols (forgot the specific terms for the objects)

[–] Findmysec@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago

Which is why not every provider supports BYOIP

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