• gregoryw3@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Private sites that people upload torrents to. A lot of them have requirements like “upload at least 1 content that we don’t have” and “must maintain a seed ratio of x”. Most that I’ve seen either have closed registrations, requiring someone to invite you as a referral, or they have interviews to make sure you’re not malicious”.

    I’ve always wanted to be in one because every once in a while I can’t find content that’s old/obscure and it’s super annoying and supposedly private trackers have a bunch of old/obscure content as-well as super new stuff like blu ray rips and native stream rips.

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      1 year ago

      A lot of them have requirements like “upload at least 1 content that we don’t have” and “must maintain a seed ratio of x”.

      I can attest to seeding requirements, but I’ve seen lots of private trackers, and only very few have rules like “upload at least 1 piece of content that we don’t have.” I would say those ones are in the minority, and most are happy to accept people who only download as long as they keep seeding and keep their ratios up.

      I’ve always wanted to be in one because every once in a while I can’t find content that’s old/obscure and it’s super annoying and supposedly private trackers have a bunch of old/obscure content as-well as super new stuff like blu ray rips and native stream rips.

      Depends on the tracker. Cinemageddon literally only traffics in B-movies and so the worse and more obscure the film is, the more likely it is you will find numerous copies on CG.