• Priyathium@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    I did that.

    And rightfully so, I was a 15 year old in a third world country with a beat up compaq computer to download movies overnight. I couldn’t seed cuz my father would find out I wasted the internet.

    Today, I can seed and have a 26TB hard drive, I preserve old movies in my native language (Telugu) and seed them.

    Do we need people to learn about seeding and ratios? Definitely. But I believe in

    Today’s leechers are tomorrow’s seeders.

    And don’t blame them.

    • kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 minutes ago

      Sounds like you grew up and your hardware did too!

      Not everyone is able to seed unfortunately. Here the downloading aspect although not allowed seeding is when you can receive fines.

      Hence I cross seed everything to I2P.

      Of course only Linux ISOs 😉

    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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      15 hours ago

      I leech because i have a 1mbps upload speed and if i’m uploading using that then my download speeds tank rendering my connection useless.

      I’m moving in the next year and when i get a place with more than ADSL you bet i’m setting up a seedbox