Noob problems

[dueda]

Lol, a 48TB disk array? Forget what I said, you probably knows more about tech than I do...
Please forgive my noobish intrusion

[LillyBegonia]

Lol, a 48TB disk array? Forget what I said, you probably knows more about tech than I do...
Please forgive my noobish intrusion

Oh that's alright, you certainly know more about torrenting than I do. Everything on that disk array was collected long before I ever thought of doing torrents. I stayed away from torrents because of all I'd read about people being busted for downloading them, and the media cops seemed to be concentrating on them. Maybe it was just those not using a VPN to download. They would getcha for that I'm sure.

[neanderthal]

. . . I suppose I have to have an account on TPB, but the site will not let me register for some reason. I tried, and never got a confirmation email, and now it will not let me use my email address because it's already in use, but if I try to get a password reset I'm told my email address is not in the database. So I'm stuck.

For problems with your TPB account, you need to make a post in the  forum Account Issues where someone with authority can help you.

[RodneyYouPlonker]

If you want to you can upload to TPB anonymously so you don't have to have an account.  With Demonoid it is a requirement though so you will need one there.  Depends really if you want people to know who you are at TPB, whether you want people to come back and click on your name so they can view what you're sharing.  If you upload anonymously then it means that people won't know who the uploader is that way.

Aha! Thank you for that! I didn't know I could upload anonymously! Obviously I'd want to do that over my VPN, and it might take a while, my upload speeds on this connection are not what I'd like. Still figuring all of this out. I used to have a few good download sites that were not torrents, but they went extinct one by one over the last year or so. I've been collecting video for years and have a lot I could share on a 48tb disk array, I just don't want to run into trouble doing it.

Now the instructions I used to create these torrents said to compress the files and I did that, they are zip files containing whole seasons. Is that how it's usually done? Also, I can't see anywhere on TPB's site to upload. The front page doesn't seem to have that. How do I find it?

Don't zip up files that you're sharing because the people that run the sites don't like that. Just share them without zipping or raring. Really I do apologise from before I should have said that you can upload to pirate bay an anonymous torrent but to do that you still do need an account. Like I said previous it is to prevent people spambotting the site. Probably best to try things out at Demonoid first, I know from my own previous experience that uploading at TPB can be quite challenging. It does require a certain amount of experience to figure all these things out. Demonoid is fairly straight forward if you've managed to get yourself an account there already then that's good and just try adding a basic announce address to your torrent, the one that Demonoid suggests and then add the Demonoid text file to your share and then have a go at processing that in your client and see if you can get Demonoid to accept and index your torrent. Like this other user has stated really you need to post in account issues and then that way the Admin can assist you without posting all your information all over a public board.