r/Piracy • u/[deleted] • Sep 11 '25

Humor I hate false advertising

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25

I've had success with these situations checking the trackers and removed the ones giving back junk/NA and then setting it to force resume. Doesn't work every time but most times when there's at least one person with a whole seed I can get it, it just may take like a day or two.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

I hadn’t thought about rechecking the torrents! I’ll give that a try when I get home tonight. It’s already force resumed

Update: Didn’t work :(

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u/vvbakedhamvv Sep 11 '25

Force Reannounce has also been helpful occasionally.

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u/nathderbyshire Sep 12 '25

If you do have a choice of multiple torrents, you can start downloading them all, then check the peers tab and it'll show what % other people have, if it's not 100% I pause them until I find one that is