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It seems that the general shift in the torrenting community has been towards private trackers anyways. The average pirate seems more interested now in finding g
by keatsta 17y ago
It seems that the general shift in the torrenting community has been towards private trackers anyways. The average pirate seems more interested now in finding good quality releases and obscure content. Also, private sites are usually safer to use on the legal side of it. Of course, I may just be projecting my own opinions onto a community in which I may be atypical.
- pyre 17y ago> private sites are usually safer to use on the legal side of it. Why's that? It's not like it's impossible for a PI to infiltrate one of these private trackers. Once the tracker is sued/confiscated, they usually have all kinds of information about you. I joined what.cd just to see what these private trackers were like and they asked my a ton of questions. From 'where do you live' and 'what type of 'net connection do you have' to 'do you know the difference between encoding X and encoding Y' and 'look at these spectral analysis of a music file, which one was converted from mp3->flac instead of source->flac'. Of course, I don't know how much of that they actually keep on file vs. just running you through the 'gauntlet' to filter out flakey people.