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[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah most seedboxers are just the new leechers of this generation... Keeping up their ratio about an unreasonable amount where they can leech everything they want without the need to give back...

They just stay for the necessary amount of time specified by their private tracker and leave the queue afterwards.

IMO seedboxes should have another rule associated to them... Straight to 1 month seeding time or get a hit&run warning !

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't call them leechers since they are seeding back to build said ratio. I think it'd be more accurate to call them a single component of a larger 'structure' including people like myself who permaseed from home on a slower connection. If it were all people like me, we'd all be waiting days for new releases to fully download and if it were all seedboxes, we would have zero seeders for anything older than a month or two. Many private trackers incentivize long-term seeding to help control this imbalance, and I think it works well in my experience.