Just a small way to help people get their FOSS. What are some other projects that have torrents that would be good to seed?

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I’d rather have a 16kb/s seeder than a dead torrent

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For real. I’m slowly downloading a documentary from one person right now, it’s been a few weeks and it’ll be a few more, but I thank them for it

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I have had torrents that ran at extremely low speeds and also intermittently were offline because the seeder ran a colossal seedbox but rotated “inventory” to be able to seed more than just what they could handle at once. So it was rotating content. I downloaded something for almost three months I think. But eventually I got it all. Funny thing was I seeded it for the next like 6 months to help, but literally nobody ever connected, so I felt very fortunate that being apparently the only person who seemed to want the thing, I had found a seeder.

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If it makes you feel any better, I had a torrent that took about a week to download. 12 months later my ratio is 139 or something. I like to think I resurrected it with the help of that one lone seeder.

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How do you find seeders of rare content?

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same boat, what documentary?

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Under an Arctic Sky. It’s about surfers going to Iceland to… surf, I assume

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The torrents include the normal http download URLs and fetch from them too. Official torrents never die.

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