Deleted Torrents - Notification

[nancledra53]

Is there any way a message can be sent to our account when a torrent has been taken down for some reason. Something possibly automatic rather than the mods having to write an individual message. I just had 10 torrents I really wanted to see just stop downloading and when searching for them, there is no sign of them. It's happening more often. Sometimes I think it could be a DCMA issue and sometimes I think it's the up-loader who has taken the torrent down. It's so frustrating to be spending the internet time and money wasted on partial downloads and not knowing why it's stopped or even if the thing is going to pick up again. Thanks.

[MrMazda]

@nancledra53 There is no notification given to any seeders or leechers of the torrent, however the uploader is notified when a torrent is taken down. This is an automatic process for the most part.

[frostycab]

@nancledra53 If you look in your client and see "Error: unregistered torrent" or similar in the status column then that torrent has been deleted. That's your notification.

All is not necessarily lost though. If the remaining swarm contains any seeders (or enough leechers with all the individual parts) you still have a chance of completing the download. When a torrent gets deleted from the site it stops anyone new from joining the swarm, but it has no ill effects on an existing swarm. It doesn't happen very often as people usually kill the download as soon as they see it's been deleted, but I've managed to finish a few files this way in the past. My advice is to keep them running in your client for a week or 2 if you can just to give them a chance.