10 years ago I went to private trackers that had extensive collections, everything with dozens of seeds. And you coukd seed whatever you download and it just wouldn't get downloaded. It would use up your hdd space on the seedbox whipe nobody could download them either as tgat would wreck their ratios and get tgem banned.

I was so disgusted I never even tried join otger private trackers, time wasters the lot of them.

Also I've seen some disgusting thieves SELL ratio fixing at outrageous prices.

Of course intellectual property is stupid garbage idea. But pirates selling shit is so much worse. Even worse than the continued demonic existance of Disney.

Another strategy was to downloaded whatever just got posted and seed that before there were too many seeds.

A kind of ratio pump and dump rugpull.

Such shitty behaviour enabled by the pretense that space and bandwidth are limited ressources and then waste both of them to create an invisible paywall.!

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[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's just books, but MaM has a seed time to points which let's you buy radio. No money involved, they just want things seeded for longer, and it works for that community. I might have 100 things seeding right now with no bandwidth used, racking up points.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is this a time per torrent or time per GB system ?

How does it work ? What's the return on investment for leaving this hardware and bandwidth sit idle ?

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

MAM has, effectively, no ratio requirements at all since it's so easy to get points. There's some system to reward seeding low-seed torrents and large-file-size torrents, and to stay in good standing you only need to seed for 72h. Hell, they give out freeleech tokens like candy, too.

If you start by downloading some low-seed books to keep the swarm alive, you'll have enough points to buy VIP status indefinitely. And because of that system, basically everything on the site is available and downloads in seconds. It takes me longer to transfer audiobook files to a phone than it takes to download.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks I'll check that one out. Last time I tried private trackers, it was like trying to get into a club, jumping hoops, wasting time and then getting in and figuring "wow, I'm never going to log-in here again"

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

They are for books only, so keep that in mind before jumping through their hoops. (Books, audiobooks, and related).