• SilentCal@lemmy.basedcount.comEnglish
    32·
    9 months ago
    1. Selection is better (if you’re looking at video: Blu-ray, remux, and encodes vs TGX’s 2 gb)
    2. Retention of old torrents is better (especially if you’re looking at niche stuff like early 90s games)
    3. Seed to leech ratios are better, fast downloads.
    4. New stuff often hits private trackers faster than public but not always.
    5. Some think security is better, but I’d still run a VPN or seedbox.
    6. Better communities, i.e. requests, reseeds, translations, recommendations
    7. Your e-peen gets bigger if you’re in an unobtainum tracker like BTN
    • SchizoDenji@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Blu-ray, remux, and encodes vs TGX’s 2 gb

      They are available at public trackers too. The only stuff that isn’t there in public is the more obscure stuff, but you can try 4chan’s torrents board to search for it.

      Seed to leech ratios are better, fast downloads.

      Massively depends on the tracker.

        • SchizoDenji@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          If you’re looking for obscure stuff, you have to wade through the weeds. I doubt anyone who is this deep into piracy is unaware.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
      32·
      9 months ago

      I tried out my first private tracker with SceneTime.

      Literally no benefit over a public tracker that I can see.

      • Selection is smaller, all torrents have a max of 30 seeders that I have seen. Most have 2-3.

      • Impossible to get a good ratio without seeding an unwanted popular torrent because niche content will have like 3 downloads per year.

      • Tons of abandoned torrents or torrents with 1 seeder

      • Almost 0 content older than 10 years unless it is very popular

      Maybe I am not integrated enough with the community, and my stupid ISP has extreme asymmetrical speeds that max my upload at 30Mbps, but I mostly still use a public tracker where when I seed, people will actually leech.