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lucas's avatar
15 years ago
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i think free leech is a dumb idea for anything for trackers.

for example, i downloaded the what cd in both v0 and flac because it was free leech and i wanted to seed it to get some extra upload.

sure enough:
   Various Artists - The What CD [V0]
            done      131.5 MB Rate:   0.0 /   0.0 KB Uploaded:   475.5 MB                 [T  R: 3.62]
   Various Artists - The What CD [FLAC]
            done      474.0 MB Rate:   0.0 /   0.0 KB Uploaded:   670.2 MB                 [T  R: 1.41]


i just think it's a dumb way to inflate ratios.
lucas's avatar
15 years ago
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watch me buy free leech on waffles and fill up my 250gb hard drive.

my line speed is 8Mbps.

( 8 Mb / s ) * ( 1 MB / 8 Mb ) * ( 1 GB / 1024 MB ) * ( 60 s / 1 m ) * ( 60 m / 1 h ) * ( 24 h / 1 d ) = 84.375 GB/day

so in 24 hours, i'll only be able to download 84.375 GB max. not too bad, though.
nestor's avatar
15 years ago
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nestor
it is deadly for the economy. basically if you look at what's economy they have double the upload as download.

people get crappy ratios and demand that they have a freeleech, when clearly that is the wrong attitude and unsustainable. what probably won't have a freeleech for a *long time* as a result.
lucas's avatar
15 years ago
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lucas
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gearing up for free leech on what.cd---
nestor's avatar
15 years ago
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nestor
nestor
still have to clear my server out, make a billion bookmarks. my class ends at 1pm tomorrow so i'll be goin at it :D :D
lucas's avatar
15 years ago
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lucas
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as will the world.
bluet's avatar
15 years ago
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bluet
i've been enjoying the new albums freeleech already :)
lucas's avatar
15 years ago
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lucas
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-1hr

this is gonna be intense!
bluet's avatar
15 years ago
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bluet
almost forgot :o

getting ready!
nestor's avatar
15 years ago
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nestor
nestor
getting mad ready, just cleared out the download folder on my server
bluet's avatar
15 years ago
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bluet
$ df -h /pub/1                                                                                                                                                           
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on                                                                                                                 
/dev/wd1d      902G    212M    857G     0%    /pub/1
bluet's avatar
15 years ago
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bluet
i'll probably get all the flac versions of this: http://what.cd/torrents.php?id=1179
nestor's avatar
15 years ago
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nestor
nestor
shit.
bluet's avatar
15 years ago
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bluet
make that all flac torrents with "pink floyd" in the title

$ ls *torrent | wc -l
99
bluet's avatar
15 years ago
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bluet
let's go!
nestor's avatar
15 years ago
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nestor
nestor
wow you must be a huge floyd fan
nestor's avatar
15 years ago
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nestor
nestor

Load average: 7.67, 5.85, 4.54

bluet's avatar
15 years ago
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bluet
is that what.cd or your seedbox?
nestor's avatar
15 years ago
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nestor
nestor
:) what.cd.

haven't upped .torrents yet
bluet's avatar
15 years ago
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bluet
haha, i got them all before the freeleech, anticipating this :)
nestor's avatar
15 years ago
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nestor
nestor
got maybe 1/5 of what i will be getting

will spend the next couple of hours working on this :(

but concerts all weekend!!
bluet's avatar
15 years ago
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bluet
[Rate 3.6/3214.2 KB]
nestor's avatar
15 years ago
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nestor
nestor
solid

i was getting 12000 KB/s down but I started getting file read errors.. capped download at 7.5MB/s
lucas's avatar
15 years ago
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lucas
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[Rate 91.5/1609.5 KB]
greene's avatar
15 years ago
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greene
cursed, but the demons i confronted with dispersed
i got my uploads working somehow! this is awesome... i'm going to download so much crap just to seed
greene's avatar
15 years ago
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greene
cursed, but the demons i confronted with dispersed
haha! i'm uploading like 100k/sec! i'm going to be straight with what by morning at this rate!
bluet's avatar
15 years ago
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bluet
[Rate 170.5/1650.8 KB]

hmm, not saturated. i have to fix this
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15 years ago
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bluet
one night later:

$ df -h /pub/1                                                                                                                                                           
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on                                                                                                                 
/dev/wd1d      902G   85.6G    772G    10%    /pub/1
lucas's avatar
15 years ago
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lucas
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i'm in billings, and my connection at my apartment in bozeman is down. :(

this sucks
nestor's avatar
15 years ago
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nestor
nestor
i've seeded like ~200GB in the last three days :O
bluet's avatar
15 years ago
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bluet
rtorrent crashed :o
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15 years ago
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bluet
wd1 was dedicated to the freeleech:

$ muroise df -h /pub/1                                        
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd1d      902G    178G    679G    21%    /pub/1


:D
lucas's avatar
15 years ago
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lucas
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i missed out on most of freeleech. :(
nestor's avatar
15 years ago
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nestor
nestor
got ~200 down and about ~300 up, obscene buffer on what now :D :D
lucas's avatar
15 years ago
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lucas
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nestor> obscene buffer on what now

"Ratio: 3.99 Up: 828.42 GB Down: 207.17 GB"
lucas's avatar
15 years ago
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lucas
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got some free leech going on at waffles

i had to throttle my upload; otherwise my web browsing suffers terribly
sriehl's avatar
15 years ago
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sriehl
surreal
I'm a mod over on BN now and we ran freeleech for a while. The usual rules applied (ie. if you don't seed for 72 hrs. OR .65 ratio on that torrent, you get a warning. 5 warnings in 30 days, perma-ban)
lucas's avatar
15 years ago
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lucas
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what is bn?
bluet's avatar
15 years ago
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bluet
bitnation