Torrent help

I recently used uTorrent to make a torrent and upload it to demonoid.com. My question is, after the torrent hits a certain number of seeders would it be ok for me to stop seeding? If so, what number would you suggest I have before doing so?

quote DannyB01

N00bleT we really can't discuss torrents or anything of the sort here on neoseeker I'm afraid.

Nope.

We can't share pirated content. But discussing torrents, roms, emulators, is just fine. Redemption just doesn't want links to be given.

Besides, torrents can be used and are used for legit purposes. A lot of Linux distributions are shared via torrents, for example. And to be perfectly honest, we don't know what the OP is planning to share and we really don't care either. If someone knows the answer to this question, they could answer it because we have no reason or evidence to say he may be sharing illegal content.

Hmm, I'm not sure, it's always a bit of a grey area I thought it was worth bringing to attention (just cos the idea of seeding means sharing content to people without discretion, which implicitly implies something illegal. Discussion of such a matter wouldn't show a stern opposition to it I'd say). It's up to the loungin' mods to decide so my bad if i'm wrong.

I will check it out again, thanks for the notifications Fury and Vermillion.

quote DannyB01

Hmm, I'm not sure, it's always a bit of a grey area I thought it was worth bringing to attention (just cos the idea of seeding means sharing content to people without discretion, which implicitly implies something illegal.

Many open source projects use bit torrent to distribute their work, just check out sourceforge. Some companies are now using it as an option for distributing drivers. There's nothing wrong with discussing torrenting. It doesn't imply illegal activities. I use it to grab linux distros and freeware all the time.


Note: He's asking a question about demonoid which is used almost exclusively for illegal torrents.


To answer his question: N00bleT, they don't force you to seed, it's more of a courtesy thing. If your ratio drops there's no penalty - use your own discretion. Check the faq page for everything you need to know.

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quote Vermillion

We can't share pirated content. But discussing torrents, roms, emulators, is just fine. Redemption just doesn't want links to be given.

This is new.
I thought any discussion of this stuff was against the rules.

I believe the discussion of how to work them/their existence is alright. We just cannot discuss the illegal aspects of them (i.e. sharing them, obtaining them). As Fury said, people use it for legitimate file sharing as well. The OP never stated what he's using it for, so we can just hope and assume it's legal.