What is the motive behind private trackers? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by vilibix535@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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If piracy is moral and ethical and enables us to share knowledge, why do private trackers gatekeep this knowledge? It goes against the principles of piracy. Do they do it just to feel superior about bring in a sekrit club?

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[-] Maximilious@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

Switch to usenet and call it a day. Switched last year and am finding the stuff I want, new and old without issue. I still have some private trackers in my list but have usenet as #1 and rarely does it not pull what I request of it.

[-] doctorn@r.nf 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, but unlike 20 years ago where it just came with email accounts, Newsgroups/Usenet aren't/isn't free anymore, right? Well, you have some free ones still, but they are filtered for piracy and alike, so rather unusable.

So, do you happen to know any free ones with everything still available or do you just pay for Usenet? If the latter, I don't really see the difference with streamingservices (other than maybe having the file locally, but torrent does that for free too) and it takes away the whole reason of pirating stuff if you're still gonna pay for it, imho. If the first though: Please share! 😅

[-] CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

You can get Usenet very cheap. I pay $6/month (less than my VPN for torrents), but there are cheaper options available. And it's worth every penny. Downloads are much faster, more content is available, no dead links, no share ratios to worry about, no VPN needed, the list goes on.

It does feel kinda silly paying money to pirate, but you get over that as soon as you start using it.

[-] doctorn@r.nf 1 points 2 years ago

I dunno, my torrents are never corrupted or missing either abd download full speed for free. I see everything I want minutes after it airs, with FileBot sutomatically sorting everything for free all I need to do is open Kodi on my AndroidTV and select what I want to watch...

I see no need or afvantage of changing that to anything that costs me money to get the exact same result... 🤷‍♂️

I think it's just peopke that did pay justifying themselves to themselves after the fact. There is no real advantage at all...