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.

  • MagicalRaccoon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    For me:

    • Lifetime of torrents, honestly I rarely have dead torrents on private trackers. Also, most of them send an alert to previous seeders telling them one torrent needs some seeds. So for that it’s WAY better than public.
    • Niche contents, I’m into rare movies and some movies are only available on private trackers (unfortunately), so yeah, for me no choice. Though I really miss VXT releases on RARBG :(.

    Except that… Not much. I think I still would keep my seedbox if I was on public trackers. Private or public, we all have to do our jobs and participate in seeding what we got :)

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Public trackers’ public nature means they’re more likely to result in your activity being seen / tracked by entities you don’t want it tracked by, for one. Ever gotten one of those letters from your ISP warning you not to download pirated shit? My understanding is that that’s usually the result of using an insecure tracker.

  • GeekFTW@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Content you may not be able to find elsewhere (for example, MySpleen has tons of old discontinued/out of print content), as well as you aren’t going to find copyright holders in private tracker swarms monitoring for IP’s to have infringement notices sent to.

    Downside: If you don’t like seeding, you get to fuck yourself and get used to liking seeding or you lose your account.

  • orcrist@lemm.ee
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    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.

  • MutatedBass@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The main benefits of private trackers are:

    • Download speed. Many users of these trackers will use seedboxes to build ratio. This generally results in a faster download speed for peers.

    • Security. Many (but not all) private trackers have strict entry barriers, such as invite only or application based signups. This keeps copyright trolls out of their swarms, which eliminates the need for a vpn or other method of masking your identity. Depending on where you live this can range from a nicety to a necessity.

    • Longevity. Torrents generally live longer on private trackers.

    • Community. Some private trackers have a forum or IRC channel where you can interact with other community members.

    • Availability. Many private trackers will have a wider range of releases of a single media.

    • Quality. You will generally find higer quality releases on private trackers. That’s not to say that high quality releases don’t make it to public trackers, some do and some don’t.

    • Faster releases. Releases will typically come to private trackers first. Many torrents originate on these trackers or come from scene groups and trickle down.

    If you’re finding everything you want on public trackers then you probably aren’t missing anything. You could test the waters on TL or something next time they open.

      • viral@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        i’m not entirely sure if it is but i’m inclined to agree with you, it’s almost verbatim to chatgpt 3.0’s writing style

          • sensibilidades@kbin.social
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            1 year ago

            As a non-AI Learning Model, I cannot conclude one way or the other with any certainty. What I can say is that ChatGPT responses tend to follow a similar pattern:

            • Consistent and clear responses: ChatGPT will often respond to prompts with very readable, well-formatted bulleted lists
            • Socratic reasoning: Items in those lists will have a logical structure from beginning to end

            Finally, ChatGPT responses tend to end those lists with a summarizing statement that restates the previous ideas - that ChatGPT will often respond in lists, use a formal and logical writing style, and end with a concise summary of the previous statements.