Usually they give users points of credit to download more torrents: Users that don’t seed will burn through their download credits and won’t be able to download.
Other trackers will also give you points for every hour you seed a torrent (usually X points per gigabyte per hour) which encourages seeding even if the given file isn’t as popular, or so popular that other seeders choke you out of uploading to other users.
I never got solvarr to work sadly but your mileage may vary. I ended up stalking /r/opensignups til decent trackers came through for my media
sportsurge.net does f1 and many other sports, listed 30mins before start time usually.
I’ve tried! but recently it seems to not work anymore? Github seems to imply it doesnt after my failed attempt (it picked up requests but cloudflare bot protection beats it).
i think there’s other alternatives that can beat cloudflare bot detection but now that Ive got access to 2 private trackers I’m not usually picking through public stuff now.
True, but like any piracy system there are endless heads to the hydra that pop up every time. 1ficher is a bit worse since those files are gone, but at least mirrors for trackers have some utility in finding old torrent swarms.
RIP. Though personally I haven’t used them in years since cloudflare was blocking prowlarr.
A real hero buys second hand copies of media they cant find on public trackers and uploads them for the good of the swarm 🤜🤛
Our government is so goofy. These massive overreaches into privacy and fair use all while having zero resources to actually enforce anything.
Remember the ““porn ban””? Beyond ISPs changing some filtering settings I don’t think anything actually changed for 99% of internet users.
Hell, our copyright laws might be based on the DMCA (The EU copyright directives and DMCA are ratifications of the same treaties) but I have never received a single Copyright letter in my life, even whilst running a seedbox for the last 2 years from my boiler cupboard!
this is just shitposting, nothing to dig deep into
the thing with DMCA is that it’s super easy to issue one but potentially more costly to challenge, especially if your appeals to the host fail and your only option is court.
Hosts are scared of facing liability for approving appeals so they’ll just ignore them (unless the victim is a big name that can muster popular support) so as the DMCA victim you’re usually fucked