Re: Got letter from Comcast....private tracker ideas?
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Originally Posted by
eMwolB
I had also gotten a letter from comcast when using Demonoid so i went ahead and stopped using them and all other public trackers. I also went ahead and got a Xirvik seedbox to start out and hung out in their shoutbox and received some really great invites. I would recomend getting one of Xirviks 25 dollar seedboxes and starting there. You wouldn't believe how many invites get passed around in their shoutbox. I got SCC, RevTT, BitmeTV, IPT, TD, and many more that I already had. After a few months on Xirvik then you can get a dedi server from a real data center when you get to know what you are doing. Start encoding and uploading, before you know it you will have made so many contacts on great trackers you wont know what to do with yourself.
That or you can spend a fraction of what you pay for a seedbox in Usenet/file hosters. :ermm:
Re: Got letter from Comcast....private tracker ideas?
Setting aside the usenet option, which I prefer as well, there are legitimate options for a new torrent user at private sites without the need for a seedbox or sucking up to people for invites.
Check out the open signups thread here or http://www.btracs.com and sign up at a tracker that is open for registration. You should be able to research the sites listed on the What Trackers Offer or Tracker Reviews sections of this forum, or just google them. I recommend a nice big general tracker like BitSoup or ILoveTorrents, although there are so many I have never even peeked at.
Or you could post a request in the request section for an invite after doing some research. Pretome or IPtorrents are great options.
Re: Got letter from Comcast....private tracker ideas?
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Originally Posted by
eMwolB
I had also gotten a letter from comcast when using Demonoid so i went ahead and stopped using them and all other public trackers. I also went ahead and got a Xirvik seedbox to start out and hung out in their shoutbox and received some really great invites. I would recomend getting one of Xirviks 25 dollar seedboxes and starting there. You wouldn't believe how many invites get passed around in their shoutbox. I got SCC, RevTT, BitmeTV, IPT, TD, and many more that I already had. After a few months on Xirvik then you can get a dedi server from a real data center when you get to know what you are doing. Start encoding and uploading, before you know it you will have made so many contacts on great trackers you wont know what to do with yourself.
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Originally Posted by
Monaco
Setting aside the usenet option, which I prefer as well, there are legitimate options for a new torrent user at private sites without the need for a seedbox or sucking up to people for invites.
Check out the open signups thread here or
http://www.btracs.com and sign up at a tracker that is open for registration. You should be able to research the sites listed on the What Trackers Offer or Tracker Reviews sections of this forum, or just google them. I recommend a nice big general tracker like BitSoup or ILoveTorrents, although there are so many I have never even peeked at.
Or you could post a request in the request section for an invite after doing some research. Pretome or IPtorrents are great options.
Of course you could but I think you aren't getting the main thrust of eMwolB's message - that he has real self-image issues and that by pointlessly climbing the hierarchy of bt trackers he hopes to become "somebody" .:mellow:
Otherwise tell me the point to any of this ?
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Originally Posted by
eMwolB
Hey whats up fellas. Just registered but been reading the forums for a while now and wanted to say hello. From the US been torrneting for a while now. Have a Server from OVH that is great and really unlimited bandwith. Did 14 TB last month so any that thinks there are hidden caps on the 3 unlimited servers they offer are wrong. .
Seriously this is the type of person that is a plague on bt stripping it of a great deal of the fun and turning what should be a system intended to be devoted to sharing into some sort of wank adolescent ego-feeding competition.
Re: Got letter from Comcast....private tracker ideas?
Seedbox whores are only a problem for those sites that don't have a proper / fair ratio 'economy' going.
There are various ways to ensure that low speed users don't get screwed, e.g. by giving them bonus points for seeding, or automatically filling the ratio to 1.0 after a certain period of seeding time, or regularly adding freeleech torrents, or simply getting rid of ratios altogether and become ratio free (with strict hit & run rules, obviously). Seedboxes can be to the benefit of a tracker and all of its userbase if done properly. Nobody wants to dowload at slow speeds, including those users with crappy upstreams.
