An increase in bad seeds on Bit Torrent? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 months ago by NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So I've been grabbing a few shows I want to watch reruns of while playing Balatro that don't have good blu ray releases. My piracy is fairly limited these days so I don't bother with private trackers (do have a VPN though). In the past, I never really had an issue with grabbing a few one offs off the popular, maybe honeypot, sites like rarbg and 1337x.

But over the past month or so, I've noticed I have gotten a lot of shitty files. Skips here and there or garbled colors for a scene or two. At first I though it was just a bad file since re-downloading the torrent had the exact same problem.

But, on a whim, I did a recheck and had to download like 40% of a torrent. And then 20% the next time. Which made me assume my NAS was fucked or I was dealing with a lot of packet lsos (... I AM dealing with a lot of packet loss from my ISP). But when I redownloaded a "known bad" torrent I had the exact same corrupted file.

So am I just REALLY unlucky? Or is there an epidemic of shitty/malicious seeds on the public trackers these days?

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[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thanks. I've been noticing this A LOT. Deluge will stop and error out the download. You are forced to manually check the file before being able to resume the download. Only, it will error out again a few seconds later. Keeping a very up to date block filter seems to help, but only a little bit.