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What's your take on private trackers? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Are they for you? Why or why not?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Childish and against the spirit of piracy. Always have been.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Public trackers are shit because of freeloaders and Stremio. This is why we can't have nice things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Stremio is bad?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

it doesn't seed the torrent back, only leeches

Edit: an alternative to stremio is using sequential download in qbit. that way, you can seed too

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

This is how I feel about people on soulseek who lock files, even more so the cunts that want things like bandcamp vouchers in return for accessing something they have. Cunts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I guess you never heard of what.cd

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I have. It was a cult.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Being open to all and then shut down by police after 6 months doesn't help piracy either. The upside to closed trackers is that stuff can be archived for years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Until it gets nuked by pigs stealing everything. A decentralised pirate catalogue based on Musicbrainz is something I want to see before I die. People diverted their efforts into vulnerable private trackers instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Single point of failure also. What.CD was the best vaccine against them: those naive idealists had hosting in France…