I have five.

  • Ricky Rigatoni 🇺🇸@lemm.ee
    3·
    21 days 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.

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    4·
    23 days 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
    3·
    23 days 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.

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      23 days 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.

  • ScoopMcPoops@lemmy.world
    22·
    23 days 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.

  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
    7·
    23 days ago

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

  • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    23 days 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.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    4·
    23 days ago

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

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      11·
      23 days ago

      Out of curiosity, were you using a private tracker? VPN? Just interested in the circumstances. Obviously something anyone who downloads has in the back of their minds. I remember getting a letter 20+ years ago, addressed to my dad from Verizon, to cut it out. I got smarter after that, or so I think.

      • psychOdelic@discuss.tchncs.de
        91·
        23 days ago

        no, I was 15… well I still am, it wasn’t that long ago, and I had been torrenting for 3 years, I believe, nothing ever happened. I also didnt know anything about private trackers, I tried getting into it once, but practically anything that costs money I would have to ask my parents for, and I’m too shy for that. Anyways, I was always saying “yeah I’m gonna get a VPN…” never did. Now my parents had to pay the price for that. I might get a VPN when I get my own bank account and stuff… in 3 years, so I’m responsible for it.

        • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
          9·
          23 days ago

          Well sorry to hear that dude, I was also probably fifteen when I got my letter from Verizon, maybe 16 or 17. Don’t let the passion for sticking out to the man fade, but not doing it on Mom and Dad’s Internet is commendable.

      • psychOdelic@discuss.tchncs.de
        9·
        23 days ago

        yes, I now have to use shitty streaming sites that are slow, unreliable and have absolutely no “rare” content. Also I won’t be able to build a collection, which leaves me feeling incomplete and miserable. I don’t know why this bothers me so much, but it does.

    • aramis87@fedia.io
      7·
      23 days ago

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

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        23 days 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
      5·
      23 days 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.

    • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachts
      10·
      23 days 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