Are private trackers really safe?

[gunner1985]

privite trackers are safer than open sign up but all it takes is some idiot selling invites ive seen a few privite tracker invites on ebay thats how the wrong people can get in

[gaz31]

Don't believe peer guardian helps at all.

Whats stopping employees of these organisations from entering a site through there home connection?

[whitepawn2a6]

i see it as
If you don't want any trouble then don't leech or seed, bascially stay off the net... no one's safe

i'm going to continue leeching/seeding... living in fear means not living at all...

[treesap]

Don't believe peer guardian helps at all.

Whats stopping employees of these organisations from entering a site through there home connection?

I prefer to use peer guardian as my security blanket

[david999]

use peerguardian and you will see a lot less blocked ip's on private than public trackers but you still get lot's of sus ones so no they are not SAFE just safer

[shosh]

from what ive seen, peerguardian doesnt do a thing. when ppl were using PG and when HBO put up false torrents of their shows they got the ip addresses of the downloaders. then they contact the isp and sends an email to their email account stating that action will be taken against them for downloading their files (but was nothing more than a scare tatic.

[j0hn]

u must not have it configured correctly.
i just counted my peerguardian blocks between 1am-2am, and there were 112 connections blocked. alot of these were repeated connection attempts by the same i.p(s), but it still blocked around 20-30 unique i.ps.
seeing as though i have about 10 active torrents, with about 3000-4000 seeds/peers, i'd say its "doing something".

[alecwu]

In the end it also depends on the country u live in.. is there any law suits against ppl who download or just against websites/heavy sharers... If u have dynamic IP it would be hard to catch u. also depends on the law in yuor country. If i were u i woudn't be so much paranoid... enjoy the p2p while u can coz in a few years (or even more) it might not be there you never know

good luck