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Do you prefer private or public trackers? (lemmy.one)

submitted 11 months ago by AdventuringAardvark@lemmy.one to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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.

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[-] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 29 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] athos77@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

The torrents, because they mess up tracker stats. Just change the source parameter so the infohash changes, and remove private=1 if you're going to post on a public tracker.

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