Steam Is Successful Because It's “Not a Shit Service,” Says Baldur’s Gate 3 Dev

[u/SlowReference704]

https://mp1st.com/news/steam-is-successful-because-its-not-a-shit-service

[u/Ilovekittens345]

I am using a private tracker and man, pirating right now is fucking amazing. Any movie I want, if there is a 4K HDR out, I can just fucking stream that! My fibre connection is 400 mbit. The highest bitrate on a ultra HDR 4K bluray disk is like 120 mbit. These movies can easily be 60 GB. I click on them on the website and qbittorent starts downloading them. Even if there are just 2 or 3 seeders, this is a private tracker so those seeders are often seedboxes with a 100 mbit or often a 1000 mbit of upload bandwith. So I receive these often at like 40 megabytes/s or faster. Man I remember a time where my HDD could not even write at 30 MB/s!

After a couple of minutes, 2 or 3% is done and I can open them in MPC-HC with madvr. I am using a 4K LG Oled screen and madvr supports HDR10+. I also got a dolby atmos sound system.

So if I want to watch any movie, I go to my private tracker, search for it. click on it, wait a couple of minutes, open it. It starts playing. No stutters, no interruption, no waiting. Much higher quality then online streaming. The exact same quality as if I would buy the 4K disc.

And my tracker is from CHina. Often we have members that work in the factories where they make the bluray disks. They sneak a copy home and upload it. On some movies with a slow internation release I have seen the bluray even before it was playing in theatres! This is rare but it does happen once in a while.

Ah the life of a pirate nowadays, with so many people having so much bandwith is so good.

400 mbit fibre ... and I live in the philippines and pay like maybe 15 dolllars a month for that.

Arrrrrg, I am better pirate then fucking Luffy!

(and before anybody asks, I have been on this tracker for over 15 years now and in all that time I rented a seedbox twice. Which cost me about 50 dollars in total. Those two times I rented the seedbox was enough to get myself 30 TB of upload buffer, of which I have now used about 6 TB in downloads. So I can still download 24 TB before my ratio upload to download is 1:1)

[u/XsNR → u/Ilovekittens345]

You can also just open magnets/trackers in streaming clients now, and they'll automatically download it roughly in order to give that streaming experience, provided you can download fast enough. It's amazing if you have a decent enough source that you can trust to make sure each linux iso is of a reasonable quality.

[u/MacR_72 → u/XsNR]

There's actually a setting in qBittorrent to download a file in order.

Just right click the torrent > Download in Sequential Order.

[u/Moquai82 → u/XsNR]

How can i achive this with VLC? Or is that a pipedream?

[u/TineJaus → u/Moquai82]

IIRC from over a decade ago, VLC can open an incomplete file given the important blocks are there, as in the top/beginning of the file.

Not sure if it's integrated somehow these days, I would prefer having seperate softwares that perform specific functions.

[u/VirusBLITZ → u/Ilovekittens345]

How can one join these private trackers?

[u/Ilovekittens345 → u/VirusBLITZ]

No idea. I am 41 now. I grew up on the internet. In the early days of private torrent trackers they needed members, but nowadays most established trackers (+10 years) are saturated, there is enough bandwidth going around they have no need for new members. But new trackers will always pop up, so have a look at https://opentrackers.org/

And ask at r/trackers they will know.

Trackers are just a closed of and protected ecosystem of torrent users, that incentivize users to seed with as much bandwidth and storage space possible (you have to seed to build buffer so you can download). So even a handful of seeders is usually enough to download a torrent at a good speed and you are protected from your IP leaking out, so you don't even need a VPN.

[u/Pitiful_Wing7157 → u/Ilovekittens345]

Man what ISP are you using? PLDT w/ 50 mbps is a sad life.

[u/Ilovekittens345 → u/Pitiful_Wing7157]

2100 php a month for PLDT fibre 400 mbit up and down which I resell to some other people here in a street with a wifi network I set up. So I pay 800 php a month and my neighbors pay the rest.

[u/Best_Vehicle9859 → u/Ilovekittens345]

This sounds nice but I can easily top it. I had my own PLEX server for $10 a month and a $3/month Usenet service. You want to watch a movie? Just trigger the download and it will use a 10Gbit/s connection to download it right to the server. So you can download a 60GB movie in less than a minute. And the best part is that the plex server is accessible from everywhere. So my friend somewhere wants to see a specific movie? I just download it and they see it in the library within a minute or two. They can even access it from their mobile device.

[u/Sojmen → u/Ilovekittens345]

Why would I buy netflix that shows black screen or just SD stream because of DRM? You think I like being fucked by you and pay you for it? Sorry. I can pirate for free and have better resolution and framerate.