This is how I feel about people on soulseek who lock files, even more so the cunts that want things like bandcamp vouchers in return for accessing something they have. Cunts.
I find them significantly within the spirit. Private trackers have robust request-filling communities that create tools to automate and upload them. A big part of file sharing is reciprocity. You need to seed torrents for other people to be able to access them, if you use torrents at all. If I’m going to personally spend money on an ebook (or a physical book), rip the DRM/scan the book, and spend my personal time improving the formatting, I expect something in return. Not directly, but in a community sense, where all that time I spent delivering the book to someone who requested it is returned by someone else when I make a request for something I can’t access. And I frequently see a return, which motivates me to keep uploading more. Ideally, the file makes its way to public trackers, but I’m not doing all that for random people on Piratebay who don’t even seed their torrents.
Being open to all and then shut down by police after 6 months doesn’t help piracy either. The upside to closed trackers is that stuff can be archived for years.
Until it gets nuked by pigs stealing everything.
A decentralised pirate catalogue based on Musicbrainz is something I want to see before I die. People diverted their efforts into vulnerable private trackers instead.
Childish and against the spirit of piracy. Always have been.
This is how I feel about people on soulseek who lock files, even more so the cunts that want things like bandcamp vouchers in return for accessing something they have. Cunts.
I find them significantly within the spirit. Private trackers have robust request-filling communities that create tools to automate and upload them. A big part of file sharing is reciprocity. You need to seed torrents for other people to be able to access them, if you use torrents at all. If I’m going to personally spend money on an ebook (or a physical book), rip the DRM/scan the book, and spend my personal time improving the formatting, I expect something in return. Not directly, but in a community sense, where all that time I spent delivering the book to someone who requested it is returned by someone else when I make a request for something I can’t access. And I frequently see a return, which motivates me to keep uploading more. Ideally, the file makes its way to public trackers, but I’m not doing all that for random people on Piratebay who don’t even seed their torrents.
Being open to all and then shut down by police after 6 months doesn’t help piracy either. The upside to closed trackers is that stuff can be archived for years.
Until it gets nuked by pigs stealing everything. A decentralised pirate catalogue based on Musicbrainz is something I want to see before I die. People diverted their efforts into vulnerable private trackers instead.
Public trackers are shit because of freeloaders and Stremio. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Stremio is bad?
it doesn’t seed the torrent back, only leeches
Edit: an alternative to stremio is using sequential download in qbit. that way, you can seed too
I guess you never heard of what.cd
I have. It was a cult.