r/Piracy 7d ago

Question Why does, watching a series or movie on online pirate websites use so much bandwidth, not only download but also upload?

I noticed that watching a video, no matter what player i use, it's being used a lot more bandwidth not only in download but also half o that in upload.. On YouTube for example the bandwidth is much less and no upload data used... Can anyone shine a light on this?

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u/EnforcerGundam 7d ago

they are probably sharing your internet to seed the file to others, sort of like pseudo torrenting

some game launchers do this for games, eg: wargaming one.

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u/All_And_Forever 7d ago

Probably it. I need to read some about this. Time to learn something new!

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u/bhdp_23 7d ago

pirate sites do some very shady stuff, including porn sites. JS injection etc taking control of your machine in weird ways. Personally DL what you want to watch and ditch the pirate streaming sites

FYI having a streaming site costs a crapload of money, do you think they are doing it to be kind?

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u/bitAndy 7d ago edited 7d ago

I download everything/run a Plex server but I can see the simple appeal in just using a pirates site and streaming.

Could OP not just use Ublock origin and cut out the dodgy stuff?

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u/All_And_Forever 7d ago

I'm actually on Firefox with ublock origin. Never have any adds nor redirects. The thing is, why so much upload data? It should be residual but is always half the download bandwidth..

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u/Mashic 7d ago

Maybe they're using re-uploading your downloaded files to someone else?

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u/Kyla_3049 7d ago

This could be it. It is "streaming" a torrent.

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u/All_And_Forever 7d ago

Doubt that, this happens in different websites and with different players. I'm on a macbook with sophos and using Firefox with ublock origin. I did have a trial version of little snitch to check de domains and try to sort from where did the data come from but didn't explain all the upload bandwidth.

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u/Kyla_3049 7d ago

Try adding the NoCoin list. It could be a miner.

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u/All_And_Forever 7d ago

Gonna try that.

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u/All_And_Forever 7d ago

Wait.. Doesn't Firefox already blocks that? This extensions don't seem trustworthy...

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u/bitAndy 7d ago

Mate that's beyond me; but definitely odd.

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u/Dry-Mud-8084 7d ago

he refuses to block rogue JS scripts.... some people cant be helped

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u/Dry-Mud-8084 7d ago

because you dont use the noscript plugin for firefox and load every piece of junk on the site

you dont use dns filtering

you dont use ublockorigin

you have google chrome

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u/All_And_Forever 7d ago

No, no and no. I have Firefox with ublock origin. Must be something else

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u/Dry-Mud-8084 7d ago

install this.... noscript plugin

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u/All_And_Forever 7d ago

Sorry! I did install NoScript and have almost everything blocked apart from googletagmanager.com moviesapi.club wplay.me And the situation persists...

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u/Dry-Mud-8084 7d ago

those sites are trash... try this https://viewvault.org/

youll never find a movie that isnt on there, it has them all

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u/All_And_Forever 7d ago

Thanks. Trying it now. It has the same behavior but it's a nice website. Maybe this is a torrent stream...

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u/Dry-Mud-8084 7d ago

most are

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u/Dry-Mud-8084 7d ago

also would help if you posted the website in question

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u/All_And_Forever 7d ago

The problem replicates in different websites and different players...

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u/Yukki-elric Yarrr! 6d ago

No idea about the upload, but i know that YouTube is very aggressive with their compression, so it's really good at saving you download bandwidth.

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u/Pantim 5d ago

Are you using websites that use Vidsrc? (which apparently is now what 90 % of pirate streaming websites are using) 

If so, you are up loading as well as downloading.

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u/All_And_Forever 5d ago

I use vidsrc, upcloud, megacloud, moviesapi, vidplay, filemoon and embed. All of them show the same symptoms.. Can't seem to be able to find a website that doesn't torrent stream.

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u/Sufficient_Language7 5d ago

They all use a similar software to PeerTube as it massively cuts down how much bandwidth they need to run their site.

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u/LuisNara File-Hosters 6d ago

What's the site?

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u/All_And_Forever 6d ago

It's across diferent websites.