Comment Re:no incentive (Score 1) 425
People who really care about what they are downloading - collectors and such - go to private sites. Many private sites are tailored to one kind of entertainment and they always have the highest quality, best documented torrents with a community of seeders that will even help a leecher out if all the other seeds have died out. This method is also a lot legally safer.
All of these private sites track ratios and ban users (by IP usually but maybe MAC) if a user exhibits unabashed greediness. So it is definitly in your best interest to seed.
I belong to a lot of private sites (anime, music, and porn ones) and I always keep a good ratio. That doesn't mean I always seed to even 1.0 though. A lot of times it's just not worth it; if there's hundreds or thousands of other seeders it is a waste of your resources. In those cases I just seed a less healthy torrent for longer.
For public sites I agree with you though. I use public sites for movies and tv shows, and I usually kill the torrent as soon as the DL is complete. Eventually I'll find a good private tracker for those and I will then seed 'em up.
All of these private sites track ratios and ban users (by IP usually but maybe MAC) if a user exhibits unabashed greediness. So it is definitly in your best interest to seed.
I belong to a lot of private sites (anime, music, and porn ones) and I always keep a good ratio. That doesn't mean I always seed to even 1.0 though. A lot of times it's just not worth it; if there's hundreds or thousands of other seeders it is a waste of your resources. In those cases I just seed a less healthy torrent for longer.
For public sites I agree with you though. I use public sites for movies and tv shows, and I usually kill the torrent as soon as the DL is complete. Eventually I'll find a good private tracker for those and I will then seed 'em up.