I have five.

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Those were some entertaining movies (as I recall—I don’t know if I’ve seen them since I was barely into double-digit age). Worthwhile, even if they are based on beliefs I don’t share.

  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    I’m not cool enough or interesting enough for this problem. Most of my shit is pirate bay top 100 at some point

    • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachts
      5·
      2 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
      4·
      2 months ago

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

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    2 months ago

    None? Huh maybe I’m lucky. I use Rutracker, therarbg, nyaa and occasionally in a pinch a 1337x mirror (I know I know).

  • TehBamski@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    I haven’t torrented in many years. But I wanted to give a shoutout to all of the seeders that come back online, so I we could finish. There were many movies I had qued. Most were fine and finished up in three days or less, some started then stopped before they even reached the 15% mark, and several would make it to 98% then stop. Thankfully, there were some people out there who finally came back online and seeded enough for me to finish the dls. I made sure to seed enough peers to where there would be 10 seeders before I would consider removing it.

    And a huge fucking thank you to whoever the hell came back online to let me get some obscure TV show called The Legend Of Mick Dodge. I started to dl when there were only 2 seeders. Then it soon became 0 seeders. I held out because I wasn’t able to find a trusted torrent for the show. So I ended up sitting on that for a bit over a month. Then one morning, I checked my list and found to my surprise that both season 1 and season 2 were complete. I was shocked when I found out that there were now 7 seeders including me. And because of the annoying wait I had to endure, I made sure to seed the MFer for 2+ months before transferring it.

    ((Turns out, the TV show is on archive.org https://archive.org/details/the-legend-of-mick-dodge/))

  • Zier@fedia.io
    3·
    2 months ago

    I had 2 for over 1.5 years. I gave up. They are rare and the seeds died.

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 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.

  • metaStatic@kbin.earth
    2·
    2 months ago

    I’m a 1 at a time kinda guy, so nothing really gets stuck in a queue. but I haven’t had to give up on anything so far this year.

  • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    I have found that, if you restart your bittorrent client, or if you switch up your VPN connection, it can get things moving again. Not sure why.

  • Zanathos@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    About 3 years ago I got tired of stuck torrent queues and spent a few hours learning what Usenet is and it’s various components. A little learning curve compared to torrents, but very comparable in the end. The only major difference is having to pay for a Usenet provider VPN and potentially subscribing to Usenet boards for membership.

    I bought a yearly sub to a provider and lifetime sub to a very well know board. I justify the cost as money that would be wasted on a subscription service, except half the yearly cost. Usenet is now the primary download in my arr stack with torrent as a backup.

    In my experience Usenet performs much faster than torrent, and there’s no seeding requirement at all. Just grab and go. And it seems to have about 90% of what I’m looking for, from anime to old shows\movies (1950s to 20XX).