Hey all, I know a lot of people are migrating to private torrent sites, and OK, that's a choice. However there are still a lot of people on the public torrents who are just leeching and not seeding.

I have several popular (old/classic) movies in my feed that I have uploaded (literally) 1000x the original and many more in the several hundred times. That's fine, I choose to support the community, but it's pretty depressing when I look at the seeders count and those movies have 2 or 3 other seeders.

This only works if you share. Please don't cut off as soon as you've downloaded.

And on a personal note, if anyone has audio or video files for "Machine Gun Fellatio" also listed as MGF could you please start seeding in particular

"MGF Pack 1"

"MGF+Pack+2"

"MGF+Pack+3"

If I can get the download completed I'll keep them up permanently, but unfortunately as they are obscure/rare I'm getting nowhere.

Rules don't permit me showing the torrent link of course. DM if that would help

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[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've never noticed the lack of port forwarding actually impacting the ability to seed (I'm sure it's slower and harder for peers to find you but if you're actively downloading new things you're constantly announcing on trackers and DHT and if you leave something reasonably popular to seed you'll seed) but I am not a Proton user, I suppose they could be doing some kind of no seed crap like when Facebook was pirating to train its AI.

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

With paid sub, I believe, you can use Proton VPN with their torrent servers including ports they forward. It changes every time, however. I think it's just me and Windows. I think I'm nearing the time to switch my daily driver to Linux and, if successful, I'll move my server to a Linux distro soon after, as well!

[–] ccdfa@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ProtonVPN forwarded port is random on a new connection, it's not that you're using windows that this is the case.

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the comment. They have information on their site about how to set up various clients, including qBittorrent, to update the Proton VPN port. The issue is, it doesn't work, so every time I reboot (seldom as this is a server machine with services running), I just have to update the connection port for qBt. I don't doubt the port for both the VPN and qBt are the issue, but I also know that's usually the first thing that gets pointed out when specifying trouble with some network-based, port-opening software.

[–] ccdfa@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm looking at a different guide than you, but I'm not seeing any way for qbittorrent to auto update the forwarded port from Proton. Everytime your VPN connection resets (either from reboot or just a dropped connection), you have to manually update the port in qbittorrent. Of course there are some scripts that can do this for you.

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, you're right. I just looked for the same article and I guess I was misremembering the content of the Proton VPN KB article.

[–] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

curl -s --data 'json={"listen_port": "'"$port"'"}' https:/
/[your-instance-here]/api/v2/app/setPreferences

[–] chad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What this do? Does it set the port number for qBitTorrent?

[–] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago

Yep