how long should torrents live?

[dunson]

I'm not big on downloading old content at slow speeds without much chance of seeding it back. I like being part of an active swarm. I think we should just let a lot of torrents die sooner than those dedicated seeders would allow (if you have more than 100 torrents older than two weeks in your client right now, I mean you).

I'd say 1 month is a good period.

But, I'm curious, what do you all think?

[chiefosceola]

I appreciate those that keep the older torrents alive. Granted the speeds are not always the best, but my philosophy is content ftw. I'll get it eventually. Newer isn't always better.

[Nemrod]

If there´s something I miss of the golden times of eMule is that, you could grab very old stuff.
In torrents -almost always- any release older than 15 days is very hard to download and harder to seed back. And then you have to go to public trackers... a pain in the ass to download...
But it´s understandable and nothing´s perfect. :huh:

I am seeding torrents 2 months old in some trackers. Only erase them when my HD is running out of space.

[dunkItOut]

build up a buffer for those older torrents. I say keep up ones from 2003/2004 on up...

[dunson]

build up a buffer for those older torrents. I say keep up ones from 2003/2004 on up...

It's not the speed or the ratio that's stopping me. I just don't see the need to go back and get anything. There is plenty of new content to entertain me and keep my intertoobs full.

[chiefosceola]

New stuff is just a poor re-make of the old stuff. Rather watch the quality movie than the new release rich on SFX and poor on story

[Grind$oFine]

I like the old stuff.
I say keep it on as long as possible.
I hate it when trackers don't have year-old movies.

[dunkItOut]

It's not the speed or the ratio that's stopping me. I just don't see the need to go back and get anything. There is plenty of new content to entertain me and keep my intertoobs full.

Intertoobs? Is that a word? :D

Well, for me personally, I like to go back through the older stuff, see what I happened to miss....

[dythim]

Torrents should live as long as possible and as long as there are seeders or members offering to reseed torrents.

[DikTation]

That is a very hard question because im sure everyone doesnt have the space on the hard drive or doesnt like having all the torrent in there bittorent client sitting with no leechers for a long time. But in the perfect world we could all make requests and they got filled every time. But i think torrents should last a month aswell.

[Ri0T]

As long as possible. I like when torrents stay a live for long, even more than a year, in case I've missed something or when I'm suddenly interested in something.

[zizo85]

for ever:naughty:

[danio]

of the 130 torrents i have active in my client atm i would say the average seed time on those would be around 50 days.. i don't see anything wrong with keeping torrents alive for people who missed to grab things when they were new

[TP635]

For as long as possible. I download mostly older stuffs. At the moment i am downloading a torrent that was posted almost a year ago, and I am going to seed it to 1 even if it take months.

[ghurka]

It would probably depend on what it is. For example, if a Cam comes out, then a TS comes out 5 days later, then a Screener comes out a week later it means the Cam and TS are then effectively redundant. That screener may be needed until a Dvdrip comes out so why delete it after just one month. Same for Dvdrips.

There will always be an older movie that you have missed and may want one day. As you can tell I am not a lover of strict TTL policies. Thankfully there are sites like Bitsoup around.

[Disme]

for ever:naughty:

Agreed ... as long as possible.

[mrnobody]

It depends on personal and/or site perspective.

I think 0-day thing should be around for ~1 month (exception: popular torrents). I personally seed 'em for ~72 hrs. That way the torrent lives just long enough....and at the same time other can build their ratio as well.

At the meantime, non o-day (especially elearning ) should stay alive longer. If i am leeching something, i usually seed it to 1-2 ratio and then stop that torrent for ~2-3 days. Then i start seeding it again. Doing so i am giving other opportunity to get 1:1 ratio and at the meantime the torrent will stay alive for longer period of time. I have couple of torrent in theplace and bitseduce which i have been seeding for ~35 weeks. It seems like i am the only seeder in those torrent but i often get some leecher....and that makes my seeding worth it.

[sleepyy]

I would rather them live for at least a few months there's always something me or somebody else needs to replace or download that was missed Regardless of how slow the speeds are if it can't be found and you want it it's worth the wait within reason of course few days is fine with me i hate those 1kbps limited connections

[sabre]

i think a month is wayyy too short ...
the longer the better, i always download old stuff

[Swift]

i seed as much as my hdd supports when i don`t have space i simply delete 1 torent

[kabir]

as long as possible for quality torrents. maybe it would be better for trackers to classify classic stuff as golden torrents so that they are seeded as long as possible.

[YoYoY]

they should live till they die . lol

[Skyy]

It would be great if it would live for few months on private trackers and around a year or even more on public trackers.

[pone44]

forever!!!

[newswalker]

- TV series / movies should be available forever at least 1x Blu-ray, 1x DVD9 (even better: 1x 1080p x264, 1x 720p x264, 1x DVD5, 1x small xvid/x264 file)

- music forever / at least 1x Flac (better: 1x V0, 1x V2)

- IT education for at least 5 years

- General education / Ebooks forever

- Apps as long as there is no undisputed update available or no one uses the corresponding OS anymore

Karagarga uses a good system. The don't delete dead torrents and allow users to ask for reseed easily.

[pone44]

i def agree with that one. good point less space stays longer.:)

- TV series / movies should be available forever at least 1x Blu-ray, 1x DVD9 (even better: 1x 1080p x264, 1x 720p x264, 1x DVD5, 1x small xvid/x264 file)

- music forever / at least 1x Flac (better: 1x V0, 1x V2)

- IT education for at least 5 years

- General education / Ebooks forever

- Apps as long as there is no undisputed update available or no one uses the corresponding OS anymore

Karagarga uses a good system. The don't delete dead torrents and allow users to ask for reseed easily.