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.
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.
You were probably thinking of PIA's acquisition by a shady malware distributor