Decent alternative(s) to IPT?

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Originally Posted by absent_today

He meant politically correct

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Somewhat. When a tracker sells access to its doors, it give a HUGE impression that it is selling the content it contains as there is a DEFINITE promise of the resources it contains. Also, any pretension of "security" or being a "private" site are blown out of the water. It becomes a for-profit business open to anyone with $10-$20.

While there are several sites that beat the drums of "donation" to the point of greedy profit, there is an essential element between buying access and helping the site pay its necessary bills.

Yes but sometimes invites are hard to come by. If you don't know someone its next to impossible sometimes.

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Originally Posted by eighthsin013

Yes but sometimes invites are hard to come by. If you don't know someone its next to impossible sometimes.

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The more The Industries can show their property is being sold, the easier it is for them to get legal sympathy/support. Think of the difference between lending someone a book/album/movie and selling them a copy.

Scarcity does create demand, but you will find there are easier/cheaper/better ways to access this community. Look at how Paypal has clamped down on donations in the past year or so. Now many small, not-for-profit sites are having GREAT struggles paying for their server bills. The more money is involved in filesharing, the more likely it is to dry up.That is bad for the whole community.

All very true. And I understand it completely. I've just started trying to get access to private sites. I donated to get access to one, and then got an invite to the other thru someone who was a mod and helping me with my seedbox issue. Still it seems just wrong somehow to just come out asking for an invite to the site that I want. I've joined another site and they did their donations where they sent it to my paypal account, which I wasn't too keen on. The way that some of these sites treat the invites is kinda ridiculous, I know they need to do whats best for their site, but if you don't give people a chance, you will never know what they might bring to that site.

Paranoia is not an option, it's the only way to survive.

This said, I agree that certain sites overdo it a little in this regard, as it's more or less impossible to join them the 'right way', means not paying for an invite. That's just sad really.

But IPT really isn't one of those trackers, as it's not very difficult to join.

Child IPT staff,

IPT hnr system is sucks :angry:

This is a disgusting HNR system

but there TorrentDay, TorrentLeech and SCC ;)

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Originally Posted by megabyteme

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Originally Posted by absent_today

He meant politically correct

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Somewhat. When a tracker sells access to its doors, it give a HUGE impression that it is selling the content it contains as there is a DEFINITE promise of the resources it contains. Also, any pretension of "security" or being a "private" site are blown out of the water. It becomes a for-profit business open to anyone with $10-$20.

While there are several sites that beat the drums of "donation" to the point of greedy profit, there is an essential element between buying access and helping the site pay its necessary bills.

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I agree with this, but both IPT and TorrentDay are selling access to their site - even as others say TD is a replacement for IPT. The only difference is that TD is cheaper at $12 versus $20 on IPT

When it comes to the most important aspect, the amount of torrents, the only real alternative seems to be ncore. Both iPT and ncore have around 300 000 torrents. Others have at least 100 000 less.

Total Torrents

IPT - 307949
nCore - 336143



Games - IPT - 12068
nCore - 15205

XXX - IPT - 40000~
nCore - 91000~

Movies - IPT - 82000~
nCore - 14000 ~ [nCore does not allow any R5 , TS]

Music - IPT - 12000~
nCore - 72000~

eBooks/Apps/Mobile - IPT - 50000~
nCore - 64000~

TV - IPT - 96000~
nCore - 36000~

Cant you just seed 50x small files for a few weeks and build a mega points buffer or does that not work?