>>21536 I always refused to participate myself in any network that requires social engineering to get in, out of principle. But you're beating a dying horse here. People have been replacing torrents (public, semi-public, and private) with streaming for years, which is an unfortunate trend since with it you have availability often prioritized over quality. Furthermore, people willing to pay to play can pay an IPTV chink reseller around 20$/y for a subscription that gives you great variation of VOD content without any availability problems, together with all the live channels you need (and don't need). NZBs are still around too for those who want to go that route. All these options offer legal leeway too for the consumer in some jurisdictions apparently, since you are indeed fully a consumer with them. And you are overselling the goodness of the public swarm. As someone whose taste has been increasingly veering away for popular yank shit, i've been finding well seeded torrents to be an increasingly rare occurrence. It can basically become an 0day or 0week game. You arrive a few days late, and there will be 0 peers, or some peers forever stuck at <100%. The situation got much worse when rarbg closed shop, but things were probably heading in that direction no matter what. Basically the public swarm would have been already dead if it wasn't for some russian friends continuing to breathe some life into it.

>>21563 I have around a petabyte backed up and I can find public seeds for whatever I want, I don't understand the need for private shit at all but I do get what you're saying, that's not going to stop me from shitting on people who use private trackers as much and as often as possible since frankly as someone who has been doing this as long as I have it's just not in the spirit of piracy as I know it, the whole point is that its not stealing, it's freely copyable data, and every faggot hoarding it with some special elitist stint deserves to be mocked relentlessly

>>21536 >he can't get in

>>21718 >wanting to

>>21727 I can feel the warm yearn mmmmmm

>>21536 Wintards, macfags and oledfags appreciate the tech they're shilling and probably paid to have it. Private tracker anons appreciate nothing. Getting invited to a secret e-nigger gibsmedat club is the height of their accomplishments. And the worst part is how they pretend they're somehow above other e-niggers; they end up downloading shit they don't even want, just to earn seed credits that make them feel like they're contributing to something other than their parents' suicidal ideations and regret.

>>21536 I can at least understand the argument for ratio requirements, but is there any actual justification for making them invite-only other than so they can be part of a secret club? If copyright trolls are a concern, just use a VPN.

The glowies have become enraged at your torrenting anon! Stop it now. It's illegal you know??? You wanna go to jail?????? Fuck up ur life?

>>21763 This sounds about right

>>21770 Are they crying right now? I'd recommend therapy

>>21770 I torrent things more than once to steal more from corpos

>>21536 It's not just that, everything they want can be obtained without hassle off of IRC. Torrenting is the lowest common denominator to obtain warez. Paying to torrent is laughable. Seeding is laughable.

>>21804 I seed the things I care about and leech otherwise, I think this is the way, people complain no one seeds their shit when they're the one who cares about it enough to seed and they should just be happy to have given back to someone else

>>21536 I dislike private tracker retards because they are the kinds of people who unironically revel in the cancerous cock-sucking sekrit club circlejerk culture that's the default in private tracker spaces. It's just an aspect of humanity I personally hate and can't associate with. These are people who think coming up with and policing the humiliation rituals to get into and stay within these circles are not signs of mental illnesses.