(12-01-2023, 05:52 PM)SpriggsySpriggs Wrote:(12-01-2023, 04:08 PM)SMcNeill Wrote:(12-01-2023, 03:59 PM)SpriggsySpriggs Wrote: I don't think I'd call torrenting a library "collecting". I'd just call it data hoarding lol.
I'd love to find everything in one torrent. It's taken me 30+ years of collecting from various sources across the web to gather my collection. Sitting at multiple TB of data, you're not going to find any torrent where someone wants to transfer that much data out across the globe to countless others.
I've found torrents much larger than just 1 TB. I've found plenty that are several terabytes. I guess you and I pirate things differently.
I've downloaded some massively huge torrents and files, but I'd never *upload* one of that size. One person grabs a copy, that's 2TB uploaded. 1000 people grab a copy, that's up to 2PB uploaded (depending on how many hit and run without seeding)... Your ISP would cut you off, ban you forever and ever, and/or raise your service charges to the roof!
The only way you usually see torrents of that size being offered is if they're on a seedbox somewhere, and not being uploaded directly via someone's home connection.
(FWIW, I've tended to find that just setting up a file server and letting another user navigate/browse it and then click-and-grab whatever they like, works best in most cases once you get into large collections. Most folks only want to grab that ONE series they're missisng, or that one song/album which they've been looking all over for. They don't have any real interest in having to grab terrabytes of other stuff, just to unpack and get the one thing which they do want from the collection.)