Bittorrent: Private Trackers' New World Order
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Don't mind me guys, I'm just venting my frustrations that's all! I've realized I've became very depressed in regards to torrenting. I don't mean to sound like an old gay war vet, rambling about the "good ol" days of torrenting. However, I came from the Demonoid generation, and anyone who has ever been a part of the Demonoid generation knows that this was the best era for pirates. I'll try to make this article as short as I possibly can. In essence, in the beginning, torrenting was truly about sharing. But, sharing not just the latest music and what have you, torrents was the perfect medium to share one's personal collections of hard-to-get collections, collections that were out of print, or non-retail, out to the public. We were able to sharing things that no one would be able to obtain other wise. Torrent was a miracle for the poor. Even twenty years ago, entertainment was still extremely expensive, relative to now.
But, once people were getting busted for copyright infringement via bittorrent, people were frightened of pubic trackers. In addition, very few people that were using bittorrent had the technical aptitude to really understand how it worked, and the important of learning what a VPN was. In absolute sheer fright, many people immediately turned to private trackers. Feeling that since private trackers were exclusive, with their "invite only," memberships, they were safe. For the most part, that last statement is almost true. It is still possible to get caught on a major private tracker such as IPT for example, but the chances are extremely small. Private trackers like IPT are now using the fears of uninformed torrent users to their advantage in order to make serious money.
People who are just getting in to the torrent game do not have a wider perspective of torrents and it's digital culture. Torrents are no longer about sharing any more, it is now a business. The business of making money, while using it's members to do it. More an more trackers are following the model of sites like IPT. Maybe I'm wrong, but I do see this as, one day (eventually) the copyright holders are going to find some why of slamming these private trackers hard. The culture back then was "sharing is caring," "sharing movies was about fair use." Now, torrenting is about a private tracker's scheme to make lots of money, and set rules that are so complicated, the only thing you're left to do is to just pay to download in essence (and on top of that you're required to seed a lot longer!).
Personally, I am really disgusted with the private tracker community. I swear to you, there only a hand full of private trackers that have staff that respects it's members. They don't care whether you've donated or not; they will ban you faster than quick, if what you say is interpreted as "out of line." This is unexceptionable abuse of power. I behoove members to make the effort to learn what a VPN is, and or preferably, what a seedbox is, and free yourself of feeling obligated to stay with these abusive sites. They get away with a lot of abuse, because I believe the members often don't know any better. We must stop giving money to these types of trackers.
But you know what? Not to sound bias, I've NEVER seemed to experience the same kind of fuckery on gay sites! Gay sites appear to be soo much nicer and kinder than the average heterosexual tracker. I don't think this is my imagination. Maybe it's due to all the porn? LOLOLOLOLOL. I'm asking all members reading my letter to seriously take heed, and pay attention to what I've written! Unless you are looking for really specialized content, it is not necessary to break your neck, paying for invites and all that shit, just to try and get in to a bullshit tracker who will wind up disrespecting you in the end. You should be able to participate in any tracker your a member of, and not have to worry about reprimand, and or extreme childish behavior.
-AnythingOldSchool
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I totally agree. I will add my rant here. I am a member for over 10 years now to one of private trackers with blu-ray movies. Tracker used to have tens of thousands active users, now it has barely 2 thousands of active users weekly, some of torrents have less than 5 leechers - it looks like it's slowly dying. I am a sentimental person, so when I got a bonus few months ago for overtime from my work I thought I will donate to support it. Little I knew it would be used against me. Few weeks ago I got warning for using VPN and seedbox - I used it for over 7 years. I uploaded hundreds of petabytes on few trackers, I posted unique torrents, filled hundreds of requests. Somehow I was also supposed to know rules to inform them about my equipment. I got warning from moderator that joined that tracker few months ago. From someone that felt superior because of his newly acquired rank. It was my second warning, third is a perm ban so I got upset. That person didn't care about my mileage with tracker, its community. All he cared is to get extra money to remove warnings he gave me in first place. He couldn't answer why after rules have changed users haven't got PM about it, why there was no clear announcement. He couldn't comprehend that you don't read rules section like it's a newspaper, you just read it when you join. I joined in 2009.
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I'm asking all members reading my letter to seriously take heed, and pay attention to what I've written! Unless you are looking for really specialized content, it is not necessary to break your neck, paying for invites and all that shit, just to try and get in to a bullshit tracker who will wind up disrespecting you in the end. You should be able to participate in any tracker your a member of, and not have to worry about reprimand, and or extreme childish behavior.
I've read your letter, but I'm not sure how to "take heed" and "pay attention." Any suggestions?
