How safe are private trackers

[P1MP]

With people getting busted by the MP/RIAA on BitTorrent, how much safer is it when using quality private trackers??

[RainRoofer]

You're safe if you're not owner :D

[pECi]

it depends on the country you're from...if ur from the us u have the most chances of being busted ;)

[Obsession6789]

If u are from Canada, relax and have fun.:D

[Bucktoof]

If you have the option in your bittorrent client, encrypt your connection

[General2k]

Yep good old Canada, I hear the UK is pretty good aswell.
Just remember nothing is going to be 100% safe. Private trackers are much safer than public ones for the obvious reason. Not every average Joe can get into them.

[phrenzy]

Ya but they can come here and get invites. Stick arround for 30 dayz begg a few low level trackers..The first thing I torrented a few years back on isoHunt I got a copyright notice and it was for a TV show..I replied that there was no notice in the opening of the show stating that one could not record or anything for that matter. I did not pay for the download nor am I selling it..Never heard back.. But thats was just for a TV show not movie or music...So 3 years later no notice. knock on wood.. So I say that it's fairly safe. The owners take the most risk...

[aburyach]

Stick to trackers that have a small user base and are hard to get into- this means lowest risk of shutdown and investigation; ie, FTN/ScT/bitmetv/etc...

[router2004]

Nothing is safe as long as u upload!

[skandelouz]

Also depends on what ISP you have, some cooperate with RIAA

[RainRoofer]

Nothing is safe as long as u upload!
I can up Vista, send report to MS, and they can't do anything about it in my country :lol:
That's the good thing, the bad one is awful bw.

[JrGman]

I would think that you are safer if you are just a member also..I think the main thing they are interested in would be servers.

[walczanin]

oh really?
its hard to imagine that since that isp would lost their customers in the blink of an eye:)

[0gbqf3v02]

oh really?
its hard to imagine that since that isp would lost their customers in the blink of an eye:)

In my country, most ple are tied down by contracts, so they gotta pay an amount b4 they can terminate it.

[Timer]

In my country, most ple are tied down by contracts, so they gotta pay an amount b4 they can terminate it.

well than, people will leave as soon as their contract ends...

[StevenVD]

Don't know exactly about belgium but I think it's allowed here to dowload, but illigal to upload.. who cares :P

[Ac3Dunk]

IF you hav axx to a topsite and you up in any private trackers its easy to get a sceneban .So its nots safe at all :(

[bcpnikhil]

sceneban? what's that? just IP banned from the topsite?

[Mïcrösöül°V³]

as was mentioned already, private trackers are safer than public ones. I know someone who got a letter for downloading an old movie on demonoid just 2 weeks ago, and they are semi-private, but they use externally tracked stuff, but he got a letter on a torrent that was internal. Just seed back your stuff to a 1 ratio and turn it off if its an issue of safety, then you limit the amount of time you have with your neck on the line so to speak.

getting those letters is a rush...just tack it to the wall and keep on downloading :lol:

[saulin]

Why is Canada safe? No one from Canada has got busted using bitTorrent?

[Digital01]

Use peerguardian, it's help.

[ptp5352]

IF you hav axx to a topsite and you up in any private trackers its easy to get a sceneban .So its nots safe at all :(

yeh, scene people hate p2p, ive seen many nfo's slatting pisexy, swebits etc.