Piracy General

[Dante Alighieri]

Does anyone else have trouble getting IPT torrents to seed?
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The three with ratios <1 are all from IPT. One of them, Undertone, has been seeding for over a week. That's longer than any other title. Aside from Big Boobs Buster, the three from IPT are the only ones that have been seeding for more than 24 hours.

People have to download from you. If nobody is downloading then your ratio won't increase.

 

[My cravat doesn't flutter]

People have to download from you. If nobody is downloading then your ratio won't increase.

I know that. Using IPT almost isn't worth it at this point because absolutely nothing from them seeds, regardless the title. The only way to keep up my ratio on that site is to spend money and donate. Maybe I just have shitty luck, but IPT is the only source that I have trouble seeding with when it comes to new releases.

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

I know that. Using IPT almost isn't worth it at this point because absolutely nothing from them seeds, regardless the title. The only way to keep up my ratio on that site is to spend money and donate. Maybe I just have shitty luck, but IPT is the only source that I have trouble seeding with when it comes to new releases.

Grab the 15 smallest torrents you can find on IPT (ebooks or something like that) and just leave them permaseeding. That way you’ll be maximising point generation which you can trade for upload credit.

Another approach would be to get a seedbox from somewhere since that is guaranteed to have ports forwarded correctly. Then what you can do to get fast ratio is to grab freeleech torrents that have just been posted. If your current setup has port forwarding sorted you could also do that, but its the fast upload from a seedbox that really makes it work.

 

[Gilgamesh]

Does anyone else have trouble getting IPT torrents to seed?
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The three with ratios <1 are all from IPT. One of them, Undertone, has been seeding for over a week. That's longer than any other title. Aside from Big Boobs Buster, the three from IPT are the only ones that have been seeding for more than 24 hours.

Was about to rag on you for posting your coomer torrent list but Big Boobs Buster has an IMDB page

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2848044/

 

[Hard R]

I know that. Using IPT almost isn't worth it at this point because absolutely nothing from them seeds, regardless the title. The only way to keep up my ratio on that site is to spend money and donate. Maybe I just have shitty luck, but IPT is the only source that I have trouble seeding with when it comes to new releases.

has it now occurred to you to do what everyone else does and download 20 sub 1MB torrents and abuse bonus points? its how these trackers work. you'll never get any upload unless you use a seedbox. you could literally upload a 4gb torrent and all the upload youll get is the initial 4gb thta you HAVE to get

 

[GreenTips]

Does anyone else have trouble getting IPT torrents to seed?
View attachment 8897787
The three with ratios <1 are all from IPT. One of them, Undertone, has been seeding for over a week. That's longer than any other title. Aside from Big Boobs Buster, the three from IPT are the only ones that have been seeding for more than 24 hours.

You have to download stuff people actually want and be seeding 24/7. Download freeleech popular things like new games and movies and TV shows even if you don't play or watch them and build your ratio so you have buffer to download what you actually want. Delete them after you meet the hit & run requirements. I've had stuff seeding for almost a year on my seedbox with a 0.01 ratio.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

I hate them all. Literally entire panels, offices, conference rooms, etc. filled with people whose entire job is "how do we make this harder to repair so we can make more money?"

First off, we are fortunate to have @larossmann and Ross Scott trying to fight for whatever consumer rights we have left.

Second off, every company more than likely has teams who look at a device and asks, “How do we make this to be as consumer hostile but look as pretty as possible”. Because we know normies like shiney things. I hate it and despise these people. Anyone who sits there and tries to make the world a worse place to maximize returns need to be thrown out of a helicopter.

Just sick and tired of the hyperfixation of profits that you need to make as much money as possible,

 

[My cravat doesn't flutter]

has it now occurred to you to do what everyone else does and download 20 sub 1MB torrents and abuse bonus points?

I didn't even know that was a thing everyone did. The <1mb thing, that is. I know you should something seeding 24/7, but not something that small.

Was about to rag on you for posting your coomer torrent list but Big Boobs Buster has an IMDB page

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2848044/

I don't think I've ever seen a porn torrent with a title that short and nondescriptive.

You have to download stuff people actually want and be seeding 24/7.

Believe me, I've tried. I've used trending titles before, but they just don't seed.

 

[Civillian 18]

I didn't even know that was a thing everyone did. The <1mb thing, that is. I know you should something seeding 24/7, but not something that small.


I don't think I've ever seen a porn torrent with a title that short and nondescriptive.


Believe me, I've tried. I've used trending titles before, but they just don't seed.

Unless you are 'racing' and using something like qui or autobrr and grabbing things as soon as they hit the tracker, you will only get upload on 'evergreen' things that people actually want, as people have pointed out.
I have a copy of a game that I searched for for a month seeding that I have a ratio of 900+ on, I have uploaded more than 3TB~ on just this compressed installer pack. If people want your movies, you will eventually get good ratio.
Does IPT have bonus (bonus) points for torrents that you have seeded for longer durations? I still have the first torrents I snatched from some trackers and I earn 5x as many points with ratios around 2 because of the modifier on the age of it. X points per hour for the size, then another Y points for it being 1+ years seed time etc

 

[moocow]

Second off, every company more than likely has teams who look at a device and asks, “How do we make this to be as consumer hostile but look as pretty as possible”.

They absolutely do. Remember that making a product as efficiently and inexpensively as possible often means heavily commodifying its components and making its parts replaceable or interchangeable. Intentionally making a product harder to repair (to force sales of replacements, i.e. "planned obsolescence", or to drive sales of service plans and replacement parts, like John Deere does) takes more engineering and makes the product more expensive, which makes the first team of engineers (you know -- the guys who made the fucking thing work well and cheap in the first place) cry.

This is 100% Apple's fault. The last time they made decent computer hardware they looked like pizza boxes. Now their computers look like toasters or cheese graters and their brand identity went from "think different" to "shiny shrink-wrapped plastic shit wot does what we tell you you're allowed to do with it." Certainly they're not the first company in the world to intentionally design products and equipment that cannot be easily serviced or repaired by their customers (Boeing, John Deere, Monsanto, Dow Chemical and 3M are notoriously hostile to their own customers), but they're arguably the first major consumer brand targeting plain ol' John Q. Public with such open hostility.

Apple's biggest coup was never the iPhone itself. It was convincing the public at large that it was reasonable to charge $1,000 for a piece of transparent plastic that cost $5 to make (a monitor stand for one of their most expensive monitors), that cult-like devotion to a technology brand name was healthy or reasonable no matter how shitty the company treats its dupes (kids as young as grade school deliberately segregate themselves into social peer groups identified by which brand of fucking cell phone they carry -- iPhone or Android), that $1k+ devices were "disposable" and should be replaced at the first sign of trouble (rather than being shoved back up the vendor's ass for warranty repair) and that making fun of people who believe those things like the faggots they are makes you the bad guy.

The entire company is a shrine to consumerism and waste. The biggest tragedy is they've tied up competent engineers who create genuinely fantastic technology (it burns me up to this day that the fastest computer systems you can buy based on ARM architecture comes from Apple -- even Ampere and Graviton can't keep pace with "Apple Silicon" with billions of dollars behind both) ... and they piss away that technological advantage with consumer-unfriendly practices, anti-competitive practices, and open hostility to innovation. They "pioneered" the consumer attitude that your phone, laptop and even desktop computer, despite costing thousands, should just be a pre-built, pre-packaged hardwired thing with no expandability, and that when you outgrow it, you should replace it with a newer, better one (no trade-ins, poorfag).

In a just world where "the betterment of mankind and the advancement of computer science" mattered more, Apple would deserve nothing less than the corporate death penalty, with all of its "intellectual property" (including hardware designs/specs, documentation, source code, etc.) immediately made public domain/patent-free, all of its DRM keys and unlock tools released publicly and its executives and lawyers drawn and quartered in the public square following an entertaining show trial aired on PBS and Youtube without commercial interruption (by force/at gunpoint in the latter's case).

 

[GreenTips]

Believe me, I've tried. I've used trending titles before, but they just don't seed.

Its likely due to your upload speed being slower than anyone else's in the swarm. Leechers are looking for the fastest available speed so if there are enough 10 GBit and 1 GBit seedboxes in there, then your laptop offering probably 10 MBit is not going to get chosen unless it's the only seeder available. If your laptop is not on Ethernet, you aren't getting anywhere near the fastest available speed you would be capable of and even then it's up to the throughput of your Ethernet port on it. It could also be your ISP. Many cap upload speed much lower than your download speed. I don't recall if you checked if your ports are open. CanYouSeeMe will check your ports and SpeedTest will tell you what your actual download and upload caps are.

 

[My cravat doesn't flutter]

Its likely due to your upload speed being slower than anyone else's in the swarm. Leechers are looking for the fastest available speed so if there are enough 10 GBit and 1 GBit seedboxes in there, then your laptop offering probably 10 MBit is not going to get chosen unless it's the only seeder available. If your laptop is not on Ethernet, you aren't getting anywhere near the fastest available speed you would be capable of and even then it's up to the throughput of your Ethernet port on it. It could also be your ISP. Many cap upload speed much lower than your download speed. I don't recall if you checked if your ports are open. CanYouSeeMe will check your ports and SpeedTest will tell you what your actual download and upload caps are.

Checked with Ookla and my desktop PC is getting 22.6mbps. I'm stuck with only my home ISP for the time being, which does not like VPNs. Shockingly, I've been able to use the internet normally with my VPN turned on for over a week. Not sure what changed, but I've posted before that I had to turn the VPN off to even make the internet useable.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

Second off, every company more than likely has teams who look at a device and asks, “How do we make this to be as consumer hostile but look as pretty as possible”. Because we know normies like shiney things.

It is everything now. I was buying a boiler a few years ago for my apartment as the old one had died. Half the models had some Google integration so it could connect to your phone or some such nonsense to control it removely. I bought one without and it came with a remote that can run on 2x AA batteries. They can build this stuff without all the spyware and complex integration and it works better.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

It is everything now. I was buying a boiler a few years ago for my apartment as the old one had died. Half the models had some Google integration so it could connect to your phone or some such nonsense to control it removely. I bought one without and it came with a remote that can run on 2x AA batteries. They can build this stuff without all the spyware and complex integration and it works better.

It is. You walk down any appliance isle, and it’s littered with IoT shit. Like why do you need to a notification when your laundry is done in the dryer? Why do you need to have a notification when your food is done in a crockpot? Nobody needs this but marketing at all these companies have convinced people they do.

And after a few years of buying a crockpot, the connectivity features are discontinued, so you need to buy a new crockpot to use useless connectivity features.

They absolutely do. Remember that making a product as efficiently and inexpensively as possible often means heavily commodifying its components and making its parts replaceable or interchangeable. Intentionally making a product harder to repair (to force sales of replacements, i.e. "planned obsolescence", or to drive sales of service plans and replacement parts, like John Deere does) takes more engineering and makes the product more expensive, which makes the first team of engineers (you know -- the guys who made the fucking thing work well and cheap in the first place) cry.

This is 100% Apple's fault. The last time they made decent computer hardware they looked like pizza boxes. Now their computers look like toasters or cheese graters and their brand identity went from "think different" to "shiny shrink-wrapped plastic shit wot does what we tell you you're allowed to do with it." Certainly they're not the first company in the world to intentionally design products and equipment that cannot be easily serviced or repaired by their customers (Boeing, John Deere, Monsanto, Dow Chemical and 3M are notoriously hostile to their own customers), but they're arguably the first major consumer brand targeting plain ol' John Q. Public with such open hostility.

Apple's biggest coup was never the iPhone itself. It was convincing the public at large that it was reasonable to charge $1,000 for a piece of transparent plastic that cost $5 to make (a monitor stand for one of their most expensive monitors), that cult-like devotion to a technology brand name was healthy or reasonable no matter how shitty the company treats its dupes (kids as young as grade school deliberately segregate themselves into social peer groups identified by which brand of fucking cell phone they carry -- iPhone or Android), that $1k+ devices were "disposable" and should be replaced at the first sign of trouble (rather than being shoved back up the vendor's ass for warranty repair) and that making fun of people who believe those things like the faggots they are makes you the bad guy.

The entire company is a shrine to consumerism and waste. The biggest tragedy is they've tied up competent engineers who create genuinely fantastic technology (it burns me up to this day that the fastest computer systems you can buy based on ARM architecture comes from Apple -- even Ampere and Graviton can't keep pace with "Apple Silicon" with billions of dollars behind both) ... and they piss away that technological advantage with consumer-unfriendly practices, anti-competitive practices, and open hostility to innovation. They "pioneered" the consumer attitude that your phone, laptop and even desktop computer, despite costing thousands, should just be a pre-built, pre-packaged hardwired thing with no expandability, and that when you outgrow it, you should replace it with a newer, better one (no trade-ins, poorfag).

In a just world where "the betterment of mankind and the advancement of computer science" mattered more, Apple would deserve nothing less than the corporate death penalty, with all of its "intellectual property" (including hardware designs/specs, documentation, source code, etc.) immediately made public domain/patent-free, all of its DRM keys and unlock tools released publicly and its executives and lawyers drawn and quartered in the public square following an entertaining show trial aired on PBS and Youtube without commercial interruption (by force/at gunpoint in the latter's case).

Nigga you ain’t never lied. What killed me was a few years back when Apple had the audacity to have a skit with Mother Nature. A company who loves soldiering and glueing components together that makes it so hard to repair, to lecture the audience to be better. And then they turn around and introduce a case that was expensive and easy to damage.

 

[GreenTips]

Checked with Ookla and my desktop PC is getting 22.6mbps. I'm stuck with only my home ISP for the time being, which does not like VPNs. Shockingly, I've been able to use the internet normally with my VPN turned on for over a week. Not sure what changed, but I've posted before that I had to turn the VPN off to even make the internet useable.

You're competing with seeders in data centers with 10Gbit (10000 mbps) and 1 Gbit (1000 mbps) connections and anyone with fiber home Internet at 1 Gbit (1000 mbps). These are 450x and 45x times faster than your connection. Pretty much everyone on private trackers use seedboxes for this reason. You don't have to worry about warning letters from your ISP with one and you can download anything on your seedbox without a VPN. I've been rawdogging torrents on my home PC on public trackers for years and gotten like 1 warning. My ISP doesn't care I've got 1 TB of traffic a month from some data center in Europe and it's all FTP traffic.

 

[Newcomer 42]

Can you Americans check if sflix.is is down, or just for Yurop? It's a good place to watch streamed movies and shows, but I can't access lately.

 

[GreenTips]

Can you Americans check if sflix.is is down, or just for Yurop? It's a good place to watch streamed movies and shows, but I can't access lately.

Seems like it's dead and not going to come back from what I read on TorrentFreak looking into it.

 

[The ATF Disliked That]

And after a few years of buying a crockpot, the connectivity features are discontinued, so you need to buy a new crockpot to use useless connectivity features.

Sorry, we're shutting down operations so service is discontinued. *Three Weeks Later:* Same staff opens new company selling the exact same fucking thing.

 

[innocent jogger]

Some dickless faggot hacked MySpleen. Well, at least their crappy dead forums that required a separate login which never made sense to me anyway.

2026-04-23
So, we got hacked today. Gonna be straight with you about it.

Someone got into our ancient phpBB forum software - which we've been meaning to kill off for years, and this has finally motivated me to actually do it. From there they got into the forum admin panel and downloaded copies of the forum database before we caught on and shut it down.

What that means for you: if you had a forum account, assume your **forum email address, password hash, IP address, and private messages** are in someone else's hands. The phpBB passwords are bcrypt so they're not trivial to crack, but you should change your password here and anywhere else you've used the same one. Seriously, the reuse thing will bite you.

As for the tracker side of things - we don't have evidence that the tracker database was separately grabbed, but given the situation we'd rather you treat it as potentially exposed too. Change your tracker password while you're at it. Rotate your passkey if you are paranoid (and you probably should be).

Stuff we've done since: rotated all the database passwords, removed the attacker's access, flipped the site fully over to HTTPS-only (there were only 5 users left using http announces), taken the old forum offline and we're in the process of converting the phpBB forum to a static read-only archive so it can never be a problem again. Should've done that sooner. Lesson learned the hard way.

Sorry about this. 20+ years in and this is not the kind of news we ever want to post. If you have questions, find us on IRC.

Thanks for flying the 'spleen.

 

[moocow]

Sorry, we're shutting down operations so service is discontinued. *Three Weeks Later:* Same staff opens new company selling the exact same fucking thing.

Didn't Louis Rossmann take some "smart thermostat" company to task over that exact kind of faggotry, along with refusing to open-source the "discontinued" product so it could be independently fixed and mocking disabled people who had come to depend on it?

If a "smart device" catches my interest, the only question I care about is "can this work with HomeAssistant without internet access?" and if the answer is "no," I ain't buyin'. Fuck these always-on "tethered" gadgets right in the ass.