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.
- 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?
- 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?
- 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.
It’s unreal, I’m feeling more monitored than using the Google ecosystem. This can’t be right. I now need to seed a 1MB ebook for 72h ON MY PC. I don’t use PC that often, some weeks I barely boot my PC.
So much strings man. I’m really sorry, I always seeded as hell everything I download, often hit 3.0 on FitGirl games, but now? I only see reasons to try to bypass it with some VPN, fake answers for the interview, download my shit and leave. I’m really sorry, but I’m a pirate, being attached to so much rules isn’t for me.
As an analogy, consider it like joining a gang. If you’re truly an independent free spirit, you truly don’t belong in a gang. This may be not the right path for you. Gangs have rules, often even stricter and more harshly punished ones than the actual laws they’re breaking. If that’s surprising, you probably don’t understand how gangs work. In doing the dangerous stuff they do, they also need to protect themselves (and their shit) from a lot of just-as-dangerous people in addition to the lawful people who want them shut down and imprisoned. They are not places of freedom, they are places of ultraviolence.
That said, if you happen to be the sort of person who wants, say, some of the really interesting drugs the gangs are involved in trafficking, well then, you either have to join the gang, or stay on their periphery and keep a few loose connections with them without ruffling their feathers.
Obviously a private tracker is not quite as violent and high stakes as a gang, but some of the same basic principles more or less apply. You want their loot, you gotta follow their rules, or at least make a plausible attempt to. Don’t draw attention to yourself. Get in, get your stuff, and leave. If you don’t want to join the gang, don’t make a scene, don’t make friends, just keep your eyes open, do your business and then go home and enjoy what you found. It doesn’t have to be that complicated, but don’t oversimplify it either.