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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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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How do you find seeders of rare content?

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Well, occasionally I’ll just be lucky enough I’ll try a result on a tracker that says 0 seeds. I try those all the time if I really can’t find a torrent with seeds. Lots of the ones that are seemingly dead, will kick up again at some point. I’ve had a lot of luck with even dead seeds from results on magnetdl.com and bitsearch.to but the latter you really want to have adblocks because they load a dozen of those shitty vpn ads every minute and they’re new window pop ups. Without Adblock I’d never even visit that site. But they have an excellent catalogue so I do use them. Magnetdl used to be my goto but lately they’ve had all kinds of weird cloudflare errors. Cloudflare sucks.

But aside from that and if someone seeds something upon request it’s just blind luck. But my main point I guess would be don’t shy away from links with 0 seeds indicated.

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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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No need to feel any better lol none of what I said was troubling. But it’s nice that the torrenting community in general is not just a bunch of leeches. I suspect that is because of the lack of widespread popularity which is good. This should continue to remain a subculture to a certain extent.

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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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https://tubitv.com/movies/100004335/under-an-arctic-sky?start=true&tracking=google-feed&utm_source=google-feed

use video downloaderhelper or internet download manager and rip it. this one is 720p, but if you find it on another site, should be able to rip it in 1080p at least.

here it is in 1080p - https://www.redbull.com/us-en/films/under-an-arctic-sky

i’m also adding this link to my seeds once it finishes - magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4e578d0794506d804554b409c5c71db8e3cb48ee

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