Thread: Cross-Seeding for Dummies!

I know nothing about it...I recently got in SCC and i downloaded a file that i didnt even want but i saw the high number of leeches and so i got it and after it downloaded i seeded it and (its still seeding) but i was able to only give half back (there are no leeches left) im gonna let it seed forever..but i wish i at least make it back..

what is cross seeding (i heard it can help ratio) how do i do it and please give me the (cross seeding for dummies) as i know nothing about it




i will gladly add rep most importantly my appreciation for ur help thanks

It's really simple really. Cross seeding is when you have a completed torrent from one tracker, and then download the same torrent from a different tracker. When you add the new torrent file, you don't need to re-download the files as you already did from a different tracker, so all you get is upload and no download. Sometimes some files may be named differently or put into different folders so you may have to do some renaming, however most of the time it matches up perfectly. Hope that helps, and let me know if you need some clarifying.

This is against most of the private trackers' policy right? Can they actually catch you cross seeding?

No it isn't against any tracker rules that I've come across. In fact many if not all trackers encourage it, even more so if your suffering from ratio problems.

Originally Posted by abridged

This is against most of the private trackers' policy right? Can they actually catch you cross seeding?

Actually, most private trackers encourage it.

It is not against policy on all the trackers I'm a member of. Who cares how you got the data. If it passes all verification checks you are giving back to the community. I might have been preparing a release for upload but someone beat me to it. Its better to have 2 seeders to get it out there then relying on just the one so I grab his created torrent and start seeding.

What some people might be confusing the cross seeding with is the "Can I upload your torrents to other trackers?" question found in a lot of FAQs. This refers to the torrent file itself, since it contains their tracker URL and information specific to you (passkey) you are not allowed to upload it elsewhere. But if each tracker has its own torrent file generated based on the same data and you download each one properly (ie from the orginial tracker site so it contains your passkey) you are good to go.

Don't manually add the individual tracker URL's to a single running torrent though. I believe that causes all sorts of problems. Have a torrent running for each tracker you want to seed the data on. (Some clients require you name the torrent file differently so they don't conflict, I just append tracker initals).

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Originally Posted by mt3ch

It's really simple really. Cross seeding is when you have a completed torrent from one tracker, and then download the same torrent from a different tracker. When you add the new torrent file, you don't need to re-download the files as you already did from a different tracker, so all you get is upload and no download. Sometimes some files may be named differently or put into different folders so you may have to do some renaming, however most of the time it matches up perfectly. Hope that helps, and let me know if you need some clarifying.

It isn't cross-seeding! Coz you download DIFFERENT torrent, and you finally have 2 torrent in your client with same data.
Cross-seeding is when you have 1 torrent with 2 or more trackers.

Most of respectable torrent-trackers make their torrents you CAN'T use cross-seeding even you very want :001_tongue:

Anyway if you do it, get ready to be banned

Originally Posted by qaw

Don't manually add the individual tracker URL's to a single running torrent though. I believe that causes all sorts of problems. Have a torrent running for each tracker you want to seed the data on. (Some clients require you name the torrent file differently so they don't conflict, I just append tracker initals).
Q

You're right

I need to change the way I use the term cross seeding to avoid further confusion.

Q

im even more confused..i got the basics down...would this work in SCC? thanks for everyones help...i would really appreciate if i get some Step by step for dummies...i will of course rep and i would greatly appreciate...thanks (i use utorrent)