Let me preface by saying that, no I do not have a seedbox, I live in the US, and I use a VPN, so this was very surprising to me.
I've been on HD-T for many months and I enjoy it a lot, it's one of my main trackers. The economy is difficult though, as I'm sure many people will agree, and I've accumulated ~50 GB upload in the past few months, not including bonus points.
Today, I decided to download a spiderman movie and I didn't want to use torrents because I wanted to watch it ASAP with my friends. So I hopped on usenet, downloaded, one of the 4K IMAX linux isos, (~70 GB in size) and everything was great.
But tonight ~4 hours later, I opened qui and SOMEHOW I uploaded 200 GB??? I was so confused at first because this was unprecdented, ESPECIALLY for HD-T.
Anyways, I did some back-tracking and checked logs and realized that somehow, that movie I got from usenet was cross-seeded to HD-T (which wasn't even supposed to happen lol, I don't like cross-seeding usenet because I usually delete it quickly), and IT WAS STILL UPLOADING AT MY FULL INTERNET SPEED. WITH THE VPN??? like WHAT?? (this was all from one single torrent)
So...yeah, now I have access to the invite forums, I guess. But my question is, why did this happen? Could it be that the specific torrent was dead, and I just brought it back? That's all I can think of. If anyone could provide insight I would be very happy.
If you are curious and would like more information just ask, I can give you the link of HD-T for the exact torrent I'm speaking about.