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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not going to be as positive as the others. For every person who seeds everything there are those doing the bare minimum. But they will do the bare minimum because they're in a good ecosphere of rarities that are seeded and don't want to lose that benefit