The tracker scene

[carpefile]

After reading this entire thread how to get kicked off a crappy tracker (http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=47214)
I wanted to comment but I didn't want to step all over their discussion.

I'm very glad I avoid that whole political bs while still somehow get pretty much anything I look for, all without private trackers.
The whole trading thing is too much effort for me, and pretty much nullifies any supposed security anyway.

Thats all.
Bleh

[Hath]

Thats why I don't trade anymore. I would much rather give and receive invites from trusted people. Plus, giving is better right? Also, since I have stopped trading, I have gotten more invites than I was before.

[Excrement_Cranium]

I have a total of 3 "closed" torrent community memberships, and that's good enough.


All I does is music, anyway.

On occasion I might snag a prog or game... rarely a movie. But most of those are available on 2 of the 3 I belong to, so it's all good.

[baksteen]

i think givers are better because when someone is looking to giveaway an invite they will look to give to another giver, rather than a trader.

but that is only my theory, i am no anti-trader at all

[netants]

day by day the popular private trackers are becoming too harsh for normal user .
trading is a way to make life little easier.
some trackers just stopped opening for new registration.. some only do for money.

[RACKnRAIL]

LOL...I have a total of 11 private trackers. I use all of them, but some more than others. I suppose I could part with a couple. My theory is you can never have too many arrows in your quiver.

[baksteen]

yea i like way you think racknrail.

i have a few, i prefer the more closed trackers as i feel safer.

[Xtripit]

Teh secret to getting the trackers you want is to be social, don't beg and stay far away from trading. Then of course time and a little luck.

Use the trackers you have, including forums and IRC. Go out of your way to help other people with e.g. software problems. You never know how grateful or helpful the person you helped might be in return.

Don't discuss trackers that don't want to be discussed in public
DO NOT ask for or post URL's. Use the acronym that the tracker allows if you need to discuss something, and preferably don't do it on a public forum. It creates unnecessary UNWANTED attention.

DO NOT force friendships with people just so you can ask for an invite you want. I am pretty sure you all know what I mean by force.

Discuss the things you like, be it music, movies, games whatever.

Let's say you want a lossless tracker like BTMusic or E. You don't go and ask for it, because you will never get it unless you know someone that can get invites. You might even never get it, but...

Use the music tracker you are on.
Encode your own CDs to FLAC.
Use EAC to rip. Use the Accurate rip database.
Up your perfectly ripped stuff on whatever music tracker you are on.
Learn about the process. Help in the forum with encoding and ripping questions.
Make friends that share the same interests. Discuss music.
Discuss the lack of music you are looking for.

If there isn't a lack of the music you are looking for, then why would you want BTMusic or E.

That will make you a good member to invite. Simple as that.

Same can be applied to most any tracker.

[Krell]

LOL...I have a total of 11 private trackers. I use all of them, but some more than others. I suppose I could part with a couple. My theory is you can never have too many arrows in your quiver.

Not all quivers are created equal.

Why sign up for a private site, only to find out that they use almost all external trackers, and then you have some other fucked up debit\credit system?

If I wanted to download a torrent from TPB, I'd bloody well fucking GO TO PIRATE BAY, and not join that shitty site. If I see EXTERNAL and RATIO and DONATE on the same page, I'm inclined to PM them and tell them to kindly go fuck themselves.

Don't fricken beg for donations and use everyone elses trackers.


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[RACKnRAIL]

Not all quivers are created equal.

Why sign up for a private site, only to find out that they use almost all external trackers, and then you have some other fucked up debit\credit system?

If I wanted to download a torrent from TPB, I'd bloody well fucking GO TO PIRATE BAY, and not join that shitty site. If I see EXTERNAL and RATIO and DONATE on the same page, I'm inclined to PM them and tell them to kindly go fuck themselves.

Don't fricken beg for donations and use everyone elses trackers.


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These are good to excellent quality trackers I use, not shit ones. I hate credit systems too. I discarded my TV ***something*** account for that very reason, and that was just after joining. I don't like to bash other sites on the forum, but I have seen my share of shit ones.

I could probably get away with about 4 of the 11 I have. I like MMA, music, ebooks, and movies, so one tracker certainly isn't going to cut it.

[Xtripit]

I just counted mine. I have 22 (also ranging from good to exellent) and I'm not dumping anyone of them. They all have their specialty.

And BTW some credit systems are great. Try e.g. TTi (seeding bonus) or FSC (share index). They both give credit for sharing while still having normal ratio also.

And BTW I have never seen an external torrent on any of those 22 sites.

[Krell]

Good for you, now go sign up at http://torrentstorage.com


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[Excrement_Cranium]

Good for you, now go sign up at http://torrentstorage.com


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I'm too blind to see through the smoke... is this a recommendation, or sarcasm?

[carpefile]

I just counted mine too. I have zero. Somehow I still manage to get whatever I want.
Amazing.

[Xtripit]

Well if that site really wants to become the next Demonoid, which will be hard, then the only way is if as many people as possible sign up and start uploading.

[HelenaP]

Well, I counted mine once out of sheer curiosity and found somewhere around 500 (including shite trackers).

I use 4.

Ahhhh, the price of being selfless.

P.S. And torrentstorage actually looked like a nice sturdy site.
A little too sturdy... too fast. Sort of like what.cd....

[evanse]

Is waffles "better" than what.cd?

[Andrew110]

Well, I counted mine once out of sheer curiosity and found somewhere around 500 (including shite trackers)
Damn how did you even manage to keep track of all of those?? I use 3. One is for music and the other two have relatively the same content but I download from the site that I have the best ratio on at that time.
I hate credit systems too.
Why do you hate credit systems?

[Mels_Smileys45]

Guess how many I have? ZERO (except a porn site) and I get everything I want. Well, actually, I got everything I wanted years ago so the current craze is useless to me. I still get movies I want to see without using any of these sites as I think they are retarded.

[Krell]

I'm too blind to see through the smoke... is this a recommendation, or sarcasm?

Always bet your money on sarcasm when it comes to this site. I'd herd these idiots through freeway traffic If I had the chance.



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[Krell]

Damn how did you even manage to keep track of all of those??

Same absurdity as the rest of the BT whoring. There is no ratio on 500 sites, there's only signing up and giving away or getting banned. It's impossible to worry about ratio on 500 sites, even if you could find a wince of unique content on each of them.

The only people interested in 500 sites are the RIAA, the MPAA and HelenaP. And for all we know, one in the same.


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[HelenaP]

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The only people interested in 500 sites are the RIAA, the MPAA and HelenaP. And for all we know, one in the same.


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Pull your own finger. Get me banned too, if it really makes you feel that good.

And don't ever ask me (again) about what sites have a large HD content...

Take your shot.

[Excrement_Cranium]

Always bet your money on sarcasm when it comes to this site. I'd herd these idiots through freeway traffic If I had the chance.



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If only you were a hot Asian chick instead....

[Krell]

Why do most conversations eventually lead back to Potato? She's like the hot asian Kevin Bacon of conversation.


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[GuyFawks]

And this is why people fail. Collecting trackers. Whats next? Collecting Viruses. I have the bad feeling peop... Oh shit!!

Too late <_<

http://vx.netlux.org/lib/static/vdat/tradgrps.htm

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii94/TheWalkingDude/1187330432418.jpg

[enter8]

I have 125 private trackers that I belong to, and, of those, about 70 of which are buffered and 40 that I use at least once a month. I also have about 25 more that I'm trying to get into, some of which I've been unable to join, but most of which I had and let lapse. Part of my tracker fetish has to do with the fact that I'm working on a category based search engine and want as many sites as possible for searching, but, even if I wasn't working on this, I'd still maintain a fairly large collection, as the stuff I look for tends to be on only one or two sites (if I'm lucky), and, most of the time, it's a different site.

For instance, if I'm looking for a mainstream movie that's more than a year old, I usually have to look on at least 8 trackers before I can find it- and that's if I'm lucky. Relatively obscure apps- even more. Right now, music searches are generally just What and Waffles, but once I get my engine up and running, I'd like to be able to search at least 20 music sites at once.

[Mels_Smileys45]

To me its seems filesharing has took a huge step backwards. All this is too much work. Its like the attack of the retards. WHy would anyone want to search 100 sites to find a file? My god, nothing is worth that. Id rather buy the media just for the convenience

[Mels_Smileys45]

Hmmmmm......I added another BT porn site, FIleporn, and for some reason when I added the site to my toolbar the Zeropaid logo pops up and beside it the words FilePorn.org


WTF? I know ZP has ties to a few pon sites but a BT porn site is news to me!

[Krell]

Hmmmmm......I added another BT porn site, FIleporn, and for some reason when I added the site to my toolbar the Zeropaid logo pops up and beside it the words FilePorn.org


WTF? I know ZP has ties to a few pon sites but a BT porn site is news to me!


LOL 972 porn links finally broke IE, congrats!


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[Mels_Smileys45]

Here is a pic. I promise that there is no editing other than cropping it.


http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/2017/sp3220080120120807ir2.gif

[GuyFawks]

Well why would you? Just have 3-4 good ones that you love and keep them! Sheesh. Now you wonder why people goto the scene, FXP or newsgroups.

[baksteen]

Well why would you? Just have 3-4 good ones that you love and keep them! Sheesh. Now you wonder why people goto the scene, FXP or newsgroups.

lol it depends in what your into, and if you want to pay for FXP or Newsgroup, one for general contentn, one for tv, one for music, one for trance music, one for hd content, one for porn :drunken_s , one for games for consels, one for movies and DVDR content.

see it ends up to a big number, but 500 that is a big big number, but i suppose that is good for open sign ups which you specialise in,

[HelenaP]

lol it depends in what your into, and if you want to pay for FXP or Newsgroup, one for general contentn, one for tv, one for music, one for trance music, one for hd content, one for porn :drunken_s , one for games for consels, one for movies and DVDR content.

Absolutely.


see it ends up to a big number, but 500 that is a big big number, but i suppose that is good for open sign ups which you specialise in,

No, Dear Bak...I specialize in (OSU's)...except when I DON'T HAVE MY F*8KING computer...

Edit- Many apologies Bak..I...um, never mind (this was the thread I was no longer going to comment in)...cuz, *sniff*, *sniff* I am a ho!

[RACKnRAIL]

Why do you hate credit systems?

I maintain healthy ratios by seeding on most sites, not by uploading. I only upload music, since I have a massive library. So the shit TV tracker I am talking about would not let me download a file without having a credit, so how the fuck do I seed something, if I can't download it? Well the answer is they wanted me to buy credits. Needless to say, I told them they could fuck off and die before they would get one nickel out of me.

I can live with most ratio systems, but if a tracker uses a credit system like this, it's because the greedy bastards are about making money. Don't get this mixed up with good sites that need donations to support their costs. That I can understand.

[GuyFawks]

lol it depends in what your into, and if you want to pay for FXP or Newsgroup, one for general contentn, one for tv, one for music, one for trance music, one for hd content, one for porn :drunken_s , one for games for consels, one for movies and DVDR content.

see it ends up to a big number, but 500 that is a big big number, but i suppose that is good for open sign ups which you specialise in,

You don't pay for FXP and you can pay for newsgroups. Most ISP's host them.

[El Comandante]

I can live with most ratio systems, but if a tracker uses a credit system like this, it's because the greedy bastards are about making money. Don't get this mixed up with good sites that need donations to support their costs. That I can understand.

I'm with you on this one 100%:icon_salu

[GuyFawks]

Sites need donations to cover costs. How else can the admins pay for them. Pay to leech is another matter.