demonoid

[akam25]

My favorite for application is demonoid too.

[buddy]

you guys refer to trackers...what are trackers and what is the difference between public and private?

Trackers are sites that index and monitor the seed/peer activites of a torrent.. Private trackers require a signup and impose upload/download ratio restrictions, while public trackers dont have such formalities

[chappers4321]

i consider them public

[Kytter]

fridays are signup day i think, can you wait til tomorow?

you right.

[Alien5]

i consider them public

if you need to signup to get in - its private

[nscherneck]

Private trackers require a signup and impose upload/download ratio restrictions

what kind of restrictions? can you elaborate on this?

[straightjacket]

Private trackers require a signup and impose upload/download ratio restrictions

what kind of restrictions? can you elaborate on this?

Simply put, if there is a point in time if your ratio is deemed inexcusably low, you will be warned--and on repeated offense or in extreme cases, banned. This applies even if you are diligently seeding, so if you have a slow upload rate, you will need to be careful with the rate you download. If you are careful and use your sense, you should be fine. Demonoid seems pretty lenient.

In my opinion, Demonoid is the best general-purpose private tracker out there. There is an abundance of leechers to help build your ratio for the sake of avoiding the above situation. "Top sites" beat Demonoid's torrent selection in specific areas but still cannot account for its huge community of users and its useful rating system. If what you want is on Demonoid, you should probably grab it from there.

[lysine]

anyone can load a .torrent file from demonoid into their client and download it. I would consider that a public tracker.