What is the benefit to joining private torrents? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by editediting@kbin.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Apologies if this is a basic question, but I am curious to know what I am missing out on by not having access to private torrents? I have been able to find everything I wanted using public ones.

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[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Some private trackers are shady. Even if you seed, they might undercount your contribution and ask for money. If that happens, it's a scam, just walk away.

[-] plexnose@geddit.social 3 points 1 year ago

People say IPT does this it I’ve been a member for 10 years + and never had this. Never paid a penny. The key is to build a buffer - my ratio is some thing 8:1. Don’t donate, use the money to pay for a seed box, add some big free leech torrents (game packs, tv packs are usually solid choices) and just seed them forever. Free leech won’t impact your download total but will add your seed ratio.

What a lot of new users do is go crazy, build a massive ratio deficit and can never recover.