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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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Last time I tried NNTP, it was an endless maze of piecing back together hundreds of binary messages, never finding the things I wanted.

What does your workflow look like ?

Because as far as the downloading, deluge running on a seedbox works great, it even automatically uploads to my real server and put the stuff in the right place automatically and piratebay does have nearly everything I ever search for.

I tried IPFS and didn't find a single file to download, I'm not against trying something else, I just don't want another time sucking hobby of sorting files and writing scripts again.

And I don't want to use any proprietary software.

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 22 hours ago

I don't use it anymore myself, but a small cost nntp service and the Arr stacks automate away the piece hunting for the most part.

I'd recommend looking over things at this link for an idea on the tools. They are great and take most of the pain out of all this. It's all open source as well.

https://wiki.servarr.com/

You would still want to find an indexer (like a tracker but for Usenet information on what files to grab) and a Usenet service, but I've been away from that side long enough I'd suggest getting suggestions on those from someone else.