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I'm also using Mullvad VPN, so these are just the people with their ports forwarded since mine is not.

Hi all. I’m not tech-savvy at all, and I use a Macbook. The README files for the torrent apps I’m trying to use say I need to turn off my firewall to install the software. Is that a good idea? Also, I used pirate bay first and my computer warned me about it being a malware (this is not the one with the readme file). what should I use?

Anyone know?

I torrented the multistream Wikipedia .bz2 file with all the text. How would I use the multistream functionality for it so that I do not have to decompress it all at once? I'm on MacOS and I have downloaded the index.

Is BitTorrent the best or are there others I haven't heard of in the past few years? Require something lightweight and comparatively safe.

So today I was downloading BF3 and on qBittorrent the ETA was 53 min while on Tixati who I thought to be faster, had 1.50 hours. So do the ETAs really matter and if so, does that mean I should use qBittorrent instead?

Basically the title. I’m from the US and want to know if I need to pirate out of the states in order to not get caught

Do you have any recommendations for app which can provide notifications from torrent clients and arr apps?

So, I have a few downloads that have reached a reasonable %age, but have simply stopped - they were piling in at the start, full download speeds, etc, but now, after a few days, have just stopped.

Is there any way to kick start them again to get them finished?

So I'm new to all this. One item I'm not clear on is how deluge decides which sites it seeds to. It's downloading a good bit from one site but doesn't appear to be seeding back to that same site. I'd like to see back to the sites I'm leeching from

This has been asked before, obviously, but I haven't really seen it in the specific context for my situation.

I pay for a seedbox and have used up more than half of the space with files I've downloaded and have continued to seed. A mix of public trackers and private ones. I usually only delete something I'm seeding if it's been a few months and there's a lot of people contributing to it, mostly to keep space for the things I like.

The problem: I'm running very low on space and it looks like I'm the only one seeding some things (there's a 0 under seeds, so that's just my assumption). There's also some big files (20+gb) that don't have a lot of other people seeding them. My ratio for some of these things is really good, but some it's basically nonexistent because no one else is downloading it.

Obviously, I'm going to have to give up some of these at some point because paying for more storage isn't an option (I'm actually trying to downgrade if I can) and if no one wants these things, there are other things I could devote that space to instead right?

So basically, for perspective, when do you personally decide that it's time to let a torrent go?

For more context, the most seeds one of my files has is 16 and my highest ratio is ~60.9. These are two different files.

I download torrents on my Samung Galaxy Note20 but it's odd in that when I have downloads running in the background they tend to download alot slower than if I have the app open on my screen.

Like I could be downloading at 1mbps but as soon as I put the app front and centre it'll gradually (over the course of about 10 seconds) go up to 6mpbs and stay there so it's significant.

I know download speeds can change drastically but I've noticed this for months and 'tested' it as much as I can.

Does anyone know if there's any truth to it? I'm thinking maybe android has some sort of restrictions maybe if an app is running in the background it'll throttle it but not sure.

Thanks

So I have these fully downloaded files sourced from a torrent, and I wanna seed it. I found its magnet link from a DHT crawler. The problem is I cannot even retrieve its metadata to start seeding it, possibly because it has no seeders/peers left. Is there still any chance reviving a torrent when I have the complete files? I downloaded the files through DDL a long time ago.

To my understanding, I can initiate connection to and download from people who have their ports open without any issues even when my ports are not open. But can I also seed to those people?

In other words, when I have 100% of the file, will my torrent client (qBittorrent) actively initiate connection to people with open ports who want to download from me, but couldn't otherwise connect to me, because my ports are not open? This way, when I initiate the connection, the two way data transfer should work and the person should be able to download from me.

Sorry to be a bother, however for some reason, when we try and open Bigly, it instead opens Vuze.
this change happened on its own, and we're unsure how to reverse it.

does anyone know what can be done to fix it?

Bigly was set to be the default one, and its what is pinned to the taskbar so it can't be a misclick.

I'm not a fan of having scroll bars only appear when my cursor is hovering near/on the area - how do I change the theme/appearance/whatever to have the scroll bar always there?

I'm aging, my brain and eyes aren't going to get better, and the classic windows-ish interface is much easier on me :(

is there any, preferably free, file hosts out there that are dmca ignored?? meaning if i upload say a movie, it wouldn't be taken down at all.. and also preferably without legal issues. ive been searching for awhile.

I’ve been using zbigz.com for years to download torr magnets onto my devices. Now it looks like it’s down or possibly gone forever.

What other similar sites are out there?

Thanks

So I'm using proton vpn p2p server and I get 100mpbs download speeds (which is the same as without a vpn on all my devices) but as soon as I start downloading a torrent it slows down to 5mpbs download. Does anyone know how to fix this?

So basically this specific thing was hard for me to find and there arent that many seeders, if i like move this on to a drive, can i just put it back into the same folder and it would start seeding again like normal? like if i dont change the name or anything. like will it just always recognize that file name and content on my computer?

I have been working on a project that will allow secure and anonymous torrenting without the use of a VPN, TOR, Proxy, or I2P. This is a completely new protocol, utilizing an onion based approach for peers connecting to each other.

I'm currently looking for people who are interested in this open source project, I have already completed:
DHT, Bootstrap, Bencode, UPnP libraries along with partial completion of the Rust, Java, and Android applications.

- I will be hosting 3 BootStrap nodes via my 3 blade servers.
- I will be hosting some trackers
- No libraries used within any of the code except for LibC

If you are interested DM me.
- Languages: Rust and Java
- Websites: EJS
https://github.com/octorrent

https://github.com/octorrent/octorrent.org/blob/main/www/eps/octorrent/oep_0002.md

I am trying to use winget to download and install Qbittorrent. Everytime I try, it gets flagged as a virus. I usually use Winget to easily keep my software updated. Any workaround?

I see that Transmission 4.0.6 is banned from a lot of private trackers, does anyone what kind of bug is there to make it banned?

That. 50000 files with sizes between 300Kb and 15Mb.
I have a Ubuntu 22.04 machine with 16GB ram and qbittorrent ready to start :-)

Is this feasible? There is a recommended maximum of files to share?

I've googled around and found that you can use RSS feeds and then use qBittorrent to automatically add new uploads on the site to your download list.

I've also heard about sonar and jacket.

What's your go to method for this, automating torrent downloads (old /new)?

Particularly I'm looking for a solution which will allow me to automatically download my favorite show without manual intervention for each and every season.

Also, it would be nice If I could get the old shows like this as well.

Ex: Suits

In the following context:

...S01D02 COMPLETE BLURAY-OPTiCAL

so im basically new to torrenting. i have already torrented the file for a relativly large game i want, but it wont do shit because i use protonvpn free plan wich doesnt allow torrenting. i can't really get a monthly subscription paid vpn as my bank account is linked to my parents (they can see what i do with my money) who probably wont like it.

i understand that free vpns are in most cases shitty and sell your data, the only 2 i have seen accepted are proton vpn, wich doesnt allow p2p, and windscribe wich has a very narrow limit. so, can i download without one? i can't see why not but i dont know shit about vpns, torrents as i am new.

edit i am sorry i didnt know it was important, i am from the netherlands.

I set the interface on mullvad vpn, and despite being connected, it wont download at all. Is there something i can do about this?

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