I have five.

    • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Same here. I normally have qbittorrent running 24/7, but typically shut it down and grab a different VPN server once or twice a week. It seems to affect uploads more than downloads though.

      Stuck torrents aren’t really a huge deal for me, because I’ve usually got at least a couple weeks worth of backlog. But it is frustrating when I pop open the client and see like 3Gb of upload activity that day, when I have hundreds of things seeding.

  • Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    I have probably 2 or 3 stuck for movies, and thousands stuck for music. Radarr and lidarr adds them automatically, and after many months, they do actually finish downloading

  • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I have like two because I chose nordvpn and they don’t have the ports open for DHT to work properly. My sub ends in November and I’ll switch to Proton is the world is still turning.

          • Like the wind...@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            4 months ago

            I’d rather… get my pirated software quicker and easier? 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 Keep sailing the high seas, I’ll be flying a plane instead.

            There are websites where you could skip the torrent process entirely. No I won’t list them. They’re sacred to me, I can’t live without them.

            I remember torrenting as a kid, never knew what seeding meant so I’d seed like 24/7. All I know is that downloading a torrent file takes ages, then extracting it takes centuries, all for there to be a rar, 7z, or zip inside.

            Who needs μtorrent when μ could just use 7Zip?

            • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              4 months ago

              uTorrent is an application, torrent is a protocol, zip is a file format. You’re comparing apples to oranges to zebras here.

              Anything that downloads slow is because there are few seeders and they have bandwidth that is either limited or saturated.

              I personally gave up on torrenting when 80%+ of them wouldn’t start downloading even when there were apparently many active seeders. I still pay for my vpn just in case, but I haven’t even had a client on my machine in over 18 months and I can’t recall when I fired it up before that.

              I just pay for streaming services. All I really miss is the blu-ray quality.

              • Like the wind...@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                4 months ago

                I’d buy Photoshop and Dreamweaver 2020 editions once.

                I’m not paying a subscription.

                I pay for Microsoft 365 as the integration on Windows is seamless. Just make a onedrive folder my default folder for an application and it’s already backed up, easy! And I can access it from any device in at least 5 minutes. Easy. I literally pay for onedrive storage, so the office applications are a awesome side benefit.

                If I wasn’t a onedrive user, I’d pirate office applications as well.

            • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              4 months ago

              Who uses uTorrent anymore lol.

              Use qbittorrent, download torrents with a good amount of seeds from reputable trackers and your speeds should be significantly faster than direct downloads. It’s not 2002, you don’t need to download NFS for the PSP split across 100 .rar files from Mediafire or turbobit (or megaupload if you were lucky).

  • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    none of mine were stuck, I seeded 5000+ movies/series/games/music. mostly use Usenet now, but my library is shared on soulseek and I do ratio at least 1-2 before I remove it. I upload 1TB a day on average.

  • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    None since I don’t have access to my self-hosted server at the moment due to personal circumstances, so I shut it down. I miss my server.

    • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachts
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      4 months ago

      Usually this is because early in the torrent’s life, there were one or two files that people didn’t want to download for various reasons and eventually, nobody was seeding them anymore. This is why a lot of private trackers prohibit partial downloads

    • aramis87@fedia.io
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      4 months ago

      Archive also usually has a direct download option, if you can’t get the content from torrents there.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 months ago

        What’s frustrating to me is that in theory none of the torrents/magnet links should get stuck, as they have archive.org set as a direct download/web source backup. But I’ve literally never seen that feature fucking work. Ever.

    • Zero22xx@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I would recommend jdownloader for archive.org. It’s very clunky software but does the job. Another problem with torrents from archive.org is that they often seen to only include a portion of the actual content. For example, if there’s 80gb of content, the torrent only has 20gb. I used to think it was just big stuff that this happens with but I’ve even come across an album that was like 150mb but the torrent only included the first two songs. And no one there seems to be interested in ever fixing it because this has been an issue for ages on that website. I’m afraid that torrents from archive.org are just too unreliable.

  • ScoopMcPoops@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Last October I pirated around 100 horror movies and only 2 of them took longer than a day.

    Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) - took a couple of days, it was stuck at 10% for a while and one day i wake up and the whole thing finished in like 6 hours. I’m guessing someone turned on a pc that had been off for a long time lol.

    Cabin Fever (2002) - this one took over a week and I was deadset on not paying for it so I just let it sit, pretty much the same thing with the previous torrent, it was stuck at a low percentage for a long time and then one day I hop on my computer and it had fully finished.

    Other than that, a lot of Japanese films or foreign films in general will take a long time if they’re not that popular. If I don’t care too much I’ll just delete it and forget about it.

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Five as well. A bunch recently cleared out for no explicable reasons (other than seeders mysteriously showed up).

    I recently turned to piracy after being a dedicated ‘churner’ keeping only on service a month. So I have a lot of catching up to do. Five miscellaneous things hanging out in the queue is no problem.

  • Teknikal@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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    4 months ago

    None if something doesn’t give me a decent speed in a minute or so I delete it and look for alternatives.

    Wild I had to fight spellcheck about 4 times just to post this one sentence, SwiftKey seems to be getting constantly worse.