If I sign up for a torrenting site like torrent galaxy or something, and leave my computer running then will other people get seeded? Or do I have to upload a file or can I just have it finished?

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• owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Different torrent clients have options for that. Most will seed indefinitely by default, but some you can set to seed just for a specific amount of time or until you upload a certain percentage of what you download.

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  • original_charles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is that why so many of my downloads stop at 99%?

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    • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nope, that’s a different thing.

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• BurgerBaron@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If I sign up for a torrenting site like torrent galaxy or something

  That’s a public tracker/index. You don’t need to sign up at all to connect to a public tracker swarm.

  and leave my computer running then will other people get seeded?

  Yep. You can set bandwidth limits if your upload and/or download internet package is bad so it doesn’t interfere too much.

  Or do I have to upload a file or can I just have it finished?

  Hit and Run is considered bad manners and selfish behaviour. You can get away with it on public trackers, but private ones typically ban you for that. It’s called leeching. It’ll be based on your total upload/download stats, or your ratio in other words.

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  • BurgerBaron@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    Pic related, fuck. Started with 5 seeds, now there’s just one. Unconnectable.

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    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Started with 5 seeds, now there’s just one. Unconnectable.

      You can thank all the people claiming that you don’t need a VPN with port forwarding for that.

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• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The account doesn’t matter. What you need to do is leave the torrent program on your computer running. And the files you want to seed need to be in the list of that program.

  Also make sure you know what you’re doing. You might be pirating and that might come with legal consequences. So read about the law and use protection.

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• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are you asking about the basics of how tormenting works and how torrents are distributed? Nothing wrong with that, I just want to make sure I don’t write a wall of text, explaining something you already know.

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• TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Be safe. Use a good VPN for pirated content and don’t trust that what you download is what you expect it to be.

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well I am stationed where we got a T3 connection. But I am a serial abuser of laptops. I always or have recently used Nord. I am here for another month. I just figured spread the wealth. Figured i could use the shit out of the connection and make young people get stuff they wanted like college books and stuff for free.

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• SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you are in the US, or any other country that has strong copyright enforcement, using a VPN is an absolute necessity. ISP’s usually have some form of 3 strikes policy for being caught downloading copyrighted material. As in, 3 strikes and your disconnected.

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