• nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.caEnglish
          10·
          10 months ago

          I sort of agree. When everyone is trying to seed to up their ratio, getting stuff is easy and fast. But maintaining your ratio is a nightmare. The place is essentially starved of downloaders because even people who want stuff can’t get it for fear of ruining their ratio. The only reason I had a positive ratio on what.cd was that they occasionally had freeleech days where you could download freely and only uploads counted. On those days I would just get the most popular torrents on the site and upload the shit out of them.

          While these problems exist in any private tracker, I do still miss what.cd.

        • HeneryHawk@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          51·
          10 months ago

          I’m on a few private trackers, never paid a penny towards any of them, and have high ratios in all of them

          It did take me a little work and spent some time seeding stuff I didn’t really want but I got there with a shitty home connection (my connection is pretty good now but I built those ratios with dog shit speeds)

  • nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    652·
    10 months ago

    I don’t have much free time to play around and never had the chance to be in a popular private tracker . It’s quite imposible for me … I mean wait for slots? A random date? An interview … forget it .

  • IvanOverdrive@lemm.eeEnglish
    50·
    10 months ago

    Here’s my experience with 99% of private trackers:

    “You haven’t upload enough. Download a free-leech to upload more”. So I download it, and no one downloads it from me.

      • HeneryHawk@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        125·
        10 months ago

        You’re downloading old and/or unpopular stuff. For you to upload content someone has to be actively downloading that content (that’s how the bit torrent protocol works at the most basic level). If you choose some 5 year-old FL of a Game of Thrones pack with 7,000 seeders, that’s on you

        • allocsb@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          20·
          10 months ago

          The incentive structure just doesn’t seem designed well. It creates a zero sum game. When downloading you can either:

          1. Not seed to 100%. This damages your ratio

          2. Seed to exactly 100%. In terms of ratio maintenance across all seeders this option makes the most sense

          3. Seed past 100%. You build up your own ratio but deny other downloaders from reaching 100% which hurts their ratio. They must spend longer seeding the torrent to reach 100%, which further decreases the likelihood of subsequent downloaders from reaching 100% when seeding

          When you seed past 100%, you essentially have to rely on bad actors to create more upload work for good actors. If there are no bad actors then seeding past 100% is to the detriment of other good actors, who you want to protect because you also rely on them for system health. And private trackers aim to minimize the number of bad actors.

          • EddyNottingham@lemmy.mlEnglish
            23·
            10 months ago

            Some great private trakers implement a system where users are rewarded for the time they spend seeding rather than the amount of data seeded. This creates an incentive towards keeping torrents available to everyone for a long time, which makes the whole system healthier.

    • padge@lemmy.zip
      English
      3·
      10 months ago

      I got around this by just downloading some big freeleech porn packs or a couple new release shows/movies. My highest ratio item is an anime episode I downloaded minutes after release

    • GoumLeChat@jlai.luEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      Use Sonarr or Radarr, it will download content for you as soon as it is available on the tracker. Since people are mostly looking for new stuff it works really well to boost your ratio. I have at least a ratio of 10 (first episode is closer to 20) for every Ahsoka and Futurama episodes. For Asteroid City I’m currently at 18.

    • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
      English
      62·
      10 months ago

      I’ve never had any need, except for audiobooks. Getting into myanonymouse is just a case of knowing the rules and passing a wee test. Maybe start there?

    • Azzy@beehaw.orgEnglish
      101·
      10 months ago

      It’s a good idea to start with MAM since they have interviews twice a week, and you can access invites for other trackers in the forums once you get to vip (which requires 4 weeks of membership, and a ratio above 2.0)

      One of the nicer things about it is that you can gain bonus points (which is how you buy extra upload credit and VIP) just by being an available seed. Due to the shear number of books on the site, you won’t be seeding often, but they make it desirable to keep it available in case someone needs it by giving you a certain number of bonus points per hour depending on various factors.

      • AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        164·
        10 months ago

        That’s a lot of work. I can’t imagine putting that much effort into downloading, not when Usenet doesn’t require anything but a couple dollars a month.

        • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
          English
          41·
          10 months ago

          I can’t imagine putting that much effort into downloading

          *Uploading, and that’s why you wouldn’t get an invite for a private tracker

          • AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            No, that’s why I wouldn’t even ask for one. No point wasting so much time tending a ratio when I’ve got a faster experience that doesn’t require me to do anything, and doesn’t depend on random strangers to work.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      English
      2·
      10 months ago

      opensignup pages like r/opensignups (now retired) but there are alternatives online, the AvistaZ/CinemaZ/PrivateHD discord has surprise invites and usually they open around christmas and/or black friday.

  • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
    44·
    10 months ago

    Look I get that private trackers are probably safer and have a mored dedicated community but personally I still love anyone that keeps it public and keeps the knowledge of torrenting open and available as a tool for new people to discover.

    I just use the public torrents, I have an IP Blocklist, and I seed the shit out of the stuff I download if it’s got less traction on it.

    I will probably find a private group or something once I realize my obscure watching habits leave me out of finding stuff unless I can literally find it physical or get lucky but for now I’m a free pirate.

  • Conyak@lemmy.tfEnglish
    17·
    10 months ago

    Could someone explain the benefits? I use public sites and download everything I’ve ever wanted and rarely have to wait more than a few minutes for them to finish. I’m no expert by any measure so I’m probably missing something.

    • athos77@kbin.social
      16·
      10 months ago

      There are three types of private trackers: general, specialty, and niche. A general tracker has most of the newest of everything - tv and movies and music and games, etc. A specialty tracker focuses on a specific media - movies or comics or audiobooks or TV, etc. And a niche tracker focuses on a specific interest - British television, or horror movies, or dnb music.

      A general tracker has very similar content to public trackers, though they tend to be more secure. And like public trackers, while they’ll have the latest items, and old popular items, they tend to have retention issues.

      Since a specialty tracker has a narrower focus, it tends to have deeper archives for it’s content. A movie tracker, for example, instead of having just the most recent movies and a back-catalog of older blockbusters, will have those plus a catalog of older, more obscure, less popular content, and it will often offer that content in multiple formats and sizes.

      And a specialty tracker goes even deeper for those that have a particular passion for the subject that’s covered.

      Do you need a private tracker? IMO, most people don’t. Most people are happy with what they have, or are happy with what they get from public trackers and other places. It’s really only if you’re finding yourself unhappy with public trackers - you’re not comfortable with the lack of privacy, for example, or you’re often looking content that you can’t find - that I would suggest looking into private trackers.

        • athos77@kbin.social
          2·
          10 months ago

          I don’t speak German and I don’t watch anime, so I’m probably not the best person to ask. Your best bet would probably be German tracker; if it doesn’t have the content, they can likely direct you to where it is.

          The other option would be to join a tracker that specializes in movies, but they tend to be somewhat difficult to get into; I would be hopeful that German trackers are easier.

    • hottari@lemmy.mlEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      Makes a difference when you want to get something that’s a bit more older or more obscure, you’ll notice few to 0 seeds on these public torrents. If you find these titles on a private tracker, you will find it well seeded with high speed peers as most people use seedboxes for seeding the torrents.

    • dystop@lemmy.mlEnglish
      101·
      10 months ago

      First is speed. I’ve been able to get speeds of ~50MBps (not Mbits) on private trackers, granted this is dependent on Internet connection more than anything but I get 20-50% of that speed on public trackers.

      Second is retention and breadth of selection. If you’re trying to download the latest Marvel movie then every tracker is gonna have that, but if you’re looking for an older movie then it’s much harder to find on a public tracker. And if you do find one, it’s likely to be seeded by 1 person and you can only squeeze 10KBps out of it.

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      It’s more of a broader benefit for everyone, but there are seems to usually be (a) rule(s) stating you have to seed a minimum amount of torrents to a specific ratio, which I don’t fully understand how that works past it helping torrents from completely dying.

      Other than that, I don’t have a clue since I have never been apart of one.

  • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    131·
    10 months ago

    Can any of you guys with access to private trackers search for “keroro VF” or “Keroro titar” or “Keroro french”. Me and several people been looking for it, some for almost half a decade but to no avail. It’s a lost media so if you can try finding it on there we’ll be very grateful. Thanks in advance !

    • sighchedelic@artemis.camp
      6·
      10 months ago

      I also have a request for the theatrical release of Mallrats. All I can find anywhere is the directors cut which is a completely different movie

        • sighchedelic@artemis.camp
          1·
          10 months ago

          Are you allowed to say what site this is on? I’ve only used the bay and torrdroid results to look in the past (admittedly,I haven’t looked in a while since it never gave me the right copy)

          • metaStatic@kbin.social
            1·
            10 months ago

            I believe usenet is vague enough

            I can strongly recommend nzbgeek as an indexer. they only have a 3 day trial so get everything setup and ready before signing up.

      • FuyuhikoDate@silkky.pubEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        What is the difference between those? Never watched mallrats and now i wanna Know where I should start ^^

        • sighchedelic@artemis.camp
          2·
          10 months ago

          The directors cut is literally a completely different movie. Every scene is an alternate scene that they filmed that I believe creates a whole different storyline. I’ve never made it past the first 10 minutes

      • Usually_Lurker@artemis.camp
        11·
        10 months ago

        These exist in my super quick search.

        I also probably have the DVD release of Mallrats in my DVD. Rack.

        Mallrats.1995.1080p.BluRay.H264-REFRACTiON

        Mallrats.1995.RA.COMPLETE.BLURAY-REFRACTiON

      • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Thanks a lot , any help is very much appreciated ! can you tell me the name of the ones you tried so i can tell the team they’re not available there. Again, thanks

      • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I searched the whole internet and i didn’t find it. Nyaa got dead torrents of the french fansubs of the 2014 reboot of the original 2004 show.

        We’re looking for the french dub of 2004 original show. only the first 3 seasons out of 7 were dubbed. They aired till around 2013 on different french kids channels then it dissappeared forever. DVDs were planned but never released.

        Another site i tried and is supposed to have everything is animetosho but no luck either.

        • athos77@kbin.social
          2·
          10 months ago

          I’m not on nyaa, but if they allow requests, you might try making one for this show. There are also some French-oriented trackers that I suppose might be a possibility, but I don’t speak French and never had anything to do with them so I’m not at all sure.

    • NateSwift@beehaw.orgEnglish
      28·
      10 months ago

      Private trackers often have rules requiring seeding that keeps all/most of the torrents with a healthier seeding pool.

      So faster downloads and less dead torrents. Sometimes greater variety

    • jellyfinandchill@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      25·
      10 months ago

      Private trackers have seeding policies in place that mandate or incentivize keeping torrents alive for extended periods of time. As a result, you see fewer dead torrents and much faster download speeds.

  • jetsetdorito@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    I got suspended for inactivity for all my private music trackers after I got Spotify, I miss them and want to go back now :(

    rip waffles.fm

  • BlazingFlames6073@lemdro.idEnglish
    51·
    10 months ago

    I don’t know what this is. I guess I’ll read a link one of the comments provided here.

    Edit: Nvm. The link didn’t explain anything

    • padge@lemmy.zip
      English
      51·
      10 months ago

      A private tracker is a torrenting site, like TPB, but is invite-only or has some other barrier to get in. They’re usually safer and faster, bur you have to seed. Also YMMV, obscure things might either not be on there, or have few/no seeds.

  • FuyuhikoDate@silkky.pubEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    And there is me, living in a country where I need debrid Services, because sailing into the sea of torrents is too dangerous here

      • FuyuhikoDate@silkky.pubEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        And i appreciate, that you Do it!

        But i think i should at least read the Mega thread and see how hard/expensiv is in the end.

        i am waaaay to paranoid to do it.

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          English
          3·
          10 months ago

          My way:
          Renting a seedbox outside of Germany (NL) for about 16€ per month for a 2TB box.
          Is it a very great value? No, not really.
          But the staff is very reponsive to issues. Tickets are being reponded to usually within 24h and resolved within 1 week. (Much better than my helpdesk performance lol)
          I got grandfathered in from an unmetered service. I can seed as much as I want at ~1Gbit/s even though I may not hit it due to being a shared box. So also very good.
          And I can use public trackers there.

          Stuff is getting transferred with resilio to my home, automatically imported and appears within 30min after download is complete in my media library.

          The other option to a seedbox is a VPN and doing it from home. Only let a program connect via the tunnel.

          Personally I am not fond of option #2 as I’d need to maintain it myself, my home internet is slow compared to a seedbox and I’d need to torrent from my own ISP connection. Yeah no. #1 is managed and I just pay the amount of 2 good quality services and have everything I can aquire.

          • FuyuhikoDate@silkky.pubEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            That Sounds actually pretty Good maybe i gonna give it a try to swed a lil bit :) I mean i dont download much But when i do i wanna give back!