I'm using TPB right now but I figured there's probably a better tracker out there, I just don't know how to find it...

  • nematoad [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    Yeah, I really don't know the process for like even finding them. I've been using myanonamouse for ebooks/audiobooks and that has been wonderful, but it was a pretty open registration process (at least when I signed up)

    • femboi [they/them, she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I haven’t done it myself but I know for music, redacted.ch has open registration and then once you get accepted there and you have a certain amount of reputation it becomes easier to get invites to the more exclusive ones. I hate to point you in this direction, but unfortunately 4chan has a regular private trackers thread that contains the latest info on registration opportunities. A less disgusting source of info is the private trackers wiki here

      Edit: I forgot redacted’s website doesn’t have any info, look here to learn how to apply

        • Sushi_Desires
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          4 years ago

          Yeah I've never used a private tracker either personally, but these days one should really at the mimimum be using a non-FVEY, torrent-friendly VPN service (best paid in cash or crypto) to mask their IP if they plan on doing large-scale downloading of copyrighted works. Private trackers will absolutely facilitate connecting you with more niche content (like edu or anime specific) but large media companies definitely also have the resources to be logging all of the swarms on private trackers to copyright troll users.

          Torrentfreak publishes an annual list of VPNs and afaik have been pretty trustworthy/unbiased in the reporting for ages. Hmmmm per their own article, it looks like they might not be so unbiased anymore. Maybe it is time for a different source of VPN reviews. Not sure. I was thinking PIA had turned over logs in the past but I was misremembering and that was HideMyAss, not them. Hard to know for sure.