edit 2: thank you to everyone who replied.
edit: What type of leechers are acceptable and what kind are not acceptable according to you?
It’s amazing how much I need others to validate my actions. I wish I could live guilt free without this. But, I can’t, so here I am. Good people of lemmy, judge me
I don’t have a lot of internet. I get like 1.5 GB of internet a dafy and it’s 4G, not truly 4g, more like 0.2 mbps to 4mbps at max and I don’t seed after I am done downloading my torrents. If I had greater amounts of Data, like limitless data or something like 2000GBs per month or something, I would constantly be seeding, but I don’t. Are my actions morally justifiable? I feel guilty when that last seeder seeds me all I need and when someone needs another seeder, I turn off my seeding :(
I mean, I don’t want to do it, but with the data I have, I can’t afford to seed much, what should I do?
I might take some time to reply to you, I ain’t abandoning the thread btw, is https://sh.itjust.works/ down? Just asking, I could not access it today
PS: I seed books and stuff like that. I mean, they are only like 1 or 2 mbs and I seed em when no one else is. But you know other stuff like extra legal videos series, soap operas etc etc are beyond me
is India one of those countries? Are there perfectly safe ways to seed?
Nothing is perfectly safe but the least risk would be not torrenting and paying for Usenet binaries (or sharing drives with friends?)
As far as torrenting goes, reducing your risk is probably best done with a VPN but I wouldn’t know who’s really trustworthy (surely it’s in the megathread though?) - won’t be free, though.
Lechers aren’t all bad, you’re still contributing while it’s active. When you’re situation changes, it sounds like you’re behaviour will, so live and let live, cuz…
(I’m fairness, my wife is a leech and I’m not, but it depends on who gets to deluge first…)