[derefr]

I don't think I've ever found torrent download speed a limiting problem. I've much more often had problems finding peers to enable downloading 100% of the file at all, because most of what I download is stuff that's old enough (in time since the torrent was created) that mostly the torrent isn't being actively seeded any more. How long do files generally "stick around" on Usenet?

[ornornor]

Theoretically, for ever.

In practice most servers offer over 2000 or 3000 days of retention (and growing). It used to be a problem many years ago because shortage wasn’t as cheap as now, but it feels like Usenet will also keep things forever now.

[arp242]

Last week I downloaded a torrent of a rather obscure series that I ripped from DVD and uploaded 16 years ago (I no longer have the DVD).

I was rather surprised to find my old torrent still hanging around. I thought it was pretty neat.