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Can I seed on torrents I have not downloaded but have the files to? (vlemmy.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thing is, I have the batman series from the 60s that I downloaded a long time ago. I deleted the torrent but I want to seed again because I remember it having like 1 or 2 people seeding and I have better internet nowadays, I have two questions on this:

Is there a way to find the torrent directly from metadata on the files or some other way instead of having to search on sites until I find it?
If I were to find a different upload of the same files, can I just verify the files I have and start uploading directly without having to download them first?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I would recommend considering Fopnu, Soulseek, ed2k, and DC++ as alternatives for sharing. It's only opening the program, choosing the folders to seed and that's it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What reasons are there to change into those? I have been torrenting for such a long time it would be lowkey weird to vhange for no reason.

What are the advantages presented by those?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I haven't been able to share much on torrent because I run into memory issues but on those programs I've been able to share a lot, specially in nicotine+ I've been able to share all 160 TB with it being as lightweight as ever. And of course I feel safer sharing without a VPN on there since I've never heard anyone complain about legal issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For me the best is ed2k without locking files (soulseek) or good hubs hard to find (DC++).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

man, I remember downloading a movie for a week on ed2k in the 90s on dialup only to discover it was scat porn lol