• @QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
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    851 year ago

    One of the founders of the website, God, is back

    Damn, that’s some divine providence!
    Glad they had a happy ending

  • Uninvited Guest
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    311 year ago

    Well, thanks to FileList I finally managed to catch an open signup at TorrentLeech.

  • @Targox@lemmy.world
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    171 year ago

    Can someone explain to me why you use private trackers? Is it because of the possibility to request older stuff etc? Would love to know the advantages compared to torrentgalaxy for example

      • JustEnoughDucks
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        11 year ago

        I tried out my first private tracker with SceneTime.

        Literally no benefit over a public tracker that I can see.

        • Selection is smaller, all torrents have a max of 30 seeders that I have seen. Most have 2-3.

        • Impossible to get a good ratio without seeding an unwanted popular torrent because niche content will have like 3 downloads per year.

        • Tons of abandoned torrents or torrents with 1 seeder

        • Almost 0 content older than 10 years unless it is very popular

        Maybe I am not integrated enough with the community, and my stupid ISP has extreme asymmetrical speeds that max my upload at 30Mbps, but I mostly still use a public tracker where when I seed, people will actually leech.

      • @SchizoDenji@lemm.ee
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        11 year ago

        Blu-ray, remux, and encodes vs TGX’s 2 gb

        They are available at public trackers too. The only stuff that isn’t there in public is the more obscure stuff, but you can try 4chan’s torrents board to search for it.

        Seed to leech ratios are better, fast downloads.

        Massively depends on the tracker.

    • @skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
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      151 year ago

      I THINK the idea is you don’t need a VPN with a private tracker. Other then that, the selection is usually better, and the seeders have faster uploads.

      • @21racecar12@lemmy.world
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        241 year ago

        You should always use a VPN, doesn’t matter if the tracker is public or private. And yes, better selection, seeding requirements, and better speeds.

        • @antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          -81 year ago

          VPN provider is just as likely to rat as the private tracker, if it comes down to it. Only VPN I’d truly trust is Njalla. Anyway I’m interested in why a VPN is recommended for a private tracker.

          • @vodka@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Because if you live in oppressive countries without privacy laws, your ISP can/will also rat you out. Like the USA.

            • @antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              01 year ago

              On a private tracker my ISP knows the domain name of my tracker, and, the IP addresses of the peers I downloaded from. They do not know any of the content, unless they join the site AND seed the content in question.

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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        91 year ago

        All of what this person said!

        I still use public trackers though, mainly because I want my seeds to actually benefit others, not fill up some arbitrary private tracker counter.

    • @gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world
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      61 year ago

      Faster and more reliable seeders, better opsec, better uploads (due to stricter rules), wider variety of content, and better community features. There’s more but that’s what immediately comes to mind for me.

  • @MoshBit@beehaw.org
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    121 year ago

    Apologies for my ignorance, but can someone tell me what file list is or where i can find more information?

    • petrescatraianOP
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      101 year ago

      @MoshBit Sure. Filelist is a (mostly) Romanian private tracker (the website is available in English as well, though). It is also kinda hugely popular here (pretty much the most popular Romanian torrent website altogether). A couple of days ago, the admin announced that due to personal issues and being unable to find a replacement, the website would shut down. Now a solution was found.

    • Nerd02
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      61 year ago

      Private torrent tracker. Invite only, to my knowledge.

  • @three@lemm.ee
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    111 year ago

    lmfao any sane person that’s been on private trackers won’t give invites to randoms. that’s how you get banned.

    • @GekkoState
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      11 year ago

      Why not just use one of those free trial months from any of the music streaming platforms and rip it yourself. There’s plenty of free audio software or there and you just have to set it to record the audio going through the sound card.

      You’ll have to manually start/stop each song recording and sit through each whole song while it records. But that shouldn’t be much of a chore for an album you’ve been looking for for years.