As I get more and more invites to private trackers, I’m finding that I find myself spending more and more time on public tracker websites.
I’ll only use private trackers if I can’t find what I’m looking for on a public tracker. Private tracker rules can get pretty onerous and I prefer to just avoid the whole scene if possible.
If I’m honest, this opinion surprises me. I didn’t expect to prefer public trackers. I always thought that private trackers were so cool and exclusive. I don’t think that way anymore.
I strongly disapprove of private trackers. I’m forced to take part in some only because the content isn’t available anywhere else. And the private trackers generally forbid re-sharing their content on public trackers, which unnecessarily gatekeeps the content and perpetuates the problem.
If it doen’t help to make everything accessible to everybody then it’s not a valuable part of the sharing ecosystem.Do they forbid sharing the content, or do they forbid sharing the torrents? If it’s just the torrents, you can just create a public torrent with a different piece size and cross seed.
Public, because I’m a lazy bitch leecher with a mobile data cap.
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How do you go about getting invited to a private tracker?
I seed all my Linux isos on public trackers but I’m not active in any communities
Will an owl show up someday with a letter?
imo get to know somebody who’s in to invite you, and you will become that somebody that ppl would want to meet.
Yes. you just need to visit an open invite forum/thread like on reddit or on the interwebz.
Keyword: Open SignupPm me and I’ll send you an invite
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I used to want to get in on some private trackers, esp cult movie related ( karagarga ) but was always put off by elitism of those rules and systems.
Instead i opted to upload to pirate bay and like a trve pirate - no questions asked, download what you will - seeded some very obscure movies that i collected. Had to pull the plug after more than 10 yrs because i was emigrating, was a good time.
I’ve applied for half-a-dozen private trackers, but they’ve all turned me down. Definitely seems counter to the entire idea of piracy IMO.
I can’t bother joining a private tracker. Of course, they might be useful for niche content. For instance, 15 years ago there was a special tracker, where people shared races of virtually all racing series. But mainstream stuff is available on public trackers.
There one tracker, where I download lossless music. But anyone can join it, I guess you could define it as semi-private or semi-public.
I’m interested in the lossless music tracker. Which one is it?
I’m also interested. It’d be nice to have backups of the CDs I’ve bought in the past, at least
I am on a few private trackers but they don’t offer anything that the public trackers don’t already have covered for my use case, outside of porn.
I am more of a DDL pirate anyways. I have a seedbox for torrents but I tend to stick to mega links, even if there is a slight delay in getting the media. Typically what I find is that all the re-encoded high resolution h265 content comes later and is more abundant on the mega link forums than on trackers; most trackers will have h264 copies at 720/1080, but they’re often larger than the h265 high resolution re-encodes.
Unless the h264 files extra audio tracks, you’re downloading lower quality (bitrate) stuff.
The lower bitrate is fine because I’m usually streaming off the local network, so keeping the file sizes down is pretty beneficial.
I’m kinda in the same boat, except for a specific private tracker. It’s a local private tracker which has a ton of exclusive stuff in my native language, and most of the users also speak it so there’s a communal aspect to it. But otherwise, yeah. I also tend to prefer public trackers, especially for more mainstream stuff.
private all the way, only public Torrent that I seed is the Arch ISO.
imo it offers better security, anonimity, and possibly acts as a dummy filter, as uploads get checked. I also like my rank that I get when I’m actively seeding a bunch c:
Not sure how it provides better anonymity when all your activity is linked to your account. Should this account somehow be linked to you, a malicious actor would know everything you (potentially ever) downloaded.
Doesn’t matter, my happiness is solely based on fulfilling my needs. This ends up requiring a mix of private and public trackers.
In this day and age its easy to automate fulfilling whatever obligations a private tracker requires once invited, so they are a relatively small hassle most of the time.
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For what?
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What are you trying to download? Good private trackers only focus on one type of content. There are average general ones too.
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then yes, there are private trackers for this
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Private trackers have, always been a bunch of snobby dingleberries
The newbie blues for each private tracker are a definite thing, but once you get past that it’s great. It also depends on which trackers you’re on: the general trackers tend to have similar content as publics, but it’s the specialty and niche trackers where privates really shine.
I really enjoyed the private tracker I used, but I didn’t notice that my prowlarr config got messed up and stopped seeding to ratio and I got banned. Don’t really want to donate to get unbanned so that sucks. Back to public.
Only in two minor private trackers and meh, I liked usenet better don’t have to worry about ratios cause I use the *arrs. The private trackers I had to rack up like 5tb of buffer before I felt comfortable having the *arrs automatically grab from em