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Are most of you using Torrents or Usenet? (lemmy.ca)

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I'm a bit surprised to see so many torrent posts. Are most people still using Torrents? Are most piracy users aware of programs like sonarr or radarr?

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[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

My experience (and I'll admit that I've only used a private tracker since rarbg went down) is that you can only get some seeding done within the first few hours of a new torrent going up, after that there's just so much competition and so few people downloading, you might get a gigabyte of upload a week on a 50 GB freeleech torrent. It might just be specific to TL.

I do have a ratio nearing 10, but my upload buffer is still small enough that I don't want to download anything non-freeleech lol

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