This is my first “private” tracker and I’m overwhelmed by the amount of bizarre rules.

I always thought private trackers are just some sort of elitism on piracy so I always refused it, but due to lack of options I decided to try it.

I don’t understand how just seeding back isn’t enough, but they have dozens of weird rules, if anyone can explain me, I’m afraid of asking there.

  1. They have something about changing IPs, it seems you can’t change IPs too often and you can’t have multiple accounts in the same IP. Why? How does changing IPs affect the seeding process? You’re seeding, how is this not enough?
  2. They absolutely not allow mobile client, which means, you need to let your PC on all the time, sum this up with the fact that they require 72h seed within the next 30 days, this is a t least 2.5h of seed daily and if you miss one day for any reason it’d be even more for the next days. But my question is about the mobile, why the hell can’t I use my phone to seed? I talked to a mod and they argue mobile isn’t reliable due to battery optimization and it might kill the client. What does this even mean? The way I’ll seed isn’t of their concern as long as I seed the shit, why does they care about how I’m seeding?
  3. Why the torrent clients are so limited even the version you can use? What it has to do with anything at all? Again, is not seeding just enough?

Where is all the freedom on that shit? So many strings OMG. Is it not simple as:

  • Detect the user seeding
  • Track the amount of seeding
  • If he’s not following the rules, block account, end of story

Why does the means of this process even matter?

I really didn’t like that, it’s such a bizarre elitism. It’s nothing about “sharing”, it’s about putting so many strings that it’ll end up even affecting the ways you can contribute.

I’ve a 128GB smartphone and I never used half of it, if I could seed via my Android on my own terms I could easily seed ~100GB of files 24/7, I’d gladly do that, but it seems they don’t allow it. Their argument about battery optimization makes no sense, since even a desktop (laptop) could stop seeding at any moment when a person closes the lid or left it idle then the it enters in suspend mode.

No I’m not renting a seed box just to seed a few ebooks, I’m talking about ~100GB because I can do that and it’ll almost free for me.

  • zonklezoop@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Your last comment must be about the “Outside seeding” section of the ratio guide?

    I guess it depends on the individual’s attitude toward the entire idea of sharing. To me, I can improve my ratio on a private tracker while further benefitting the whole by continuing to seed what I download on the public tracker. If I’m already seeding the files for one tracker, why wouldn’t I just keep the other one active?

    If the attitude is I will download this from the public tracker, stop the torrent immediately, and then seed for my ratio… That’s the kind of person a private tracker probably doesn’t want and maybe won’t last anyway.