general question regarding private trackers

[Kyokushin]

Demonoid was the biggest and more popular private tracker ever (it was my first private tracker). Its obvious that suck a massive source of ilegal material is going to be targeted first.
What I really cant understand is why they closed Demonoid and Oink, while there are dozens of public trackers that transfer dozens of terabytes still working.

[grimms]

What I really cant understand is why they closed Demonoid and Oink, while there are dozens of public trackers that transfer dozens of terabytes still working.

Because they were both targeted by the Major Anti P2P Groups. Both sites were on their radar. Most private tracker sites are not (At the moment). If I were an SysOp or admin, I would want it kept that way.

[DasFox]

How unsafe does it make it for the users on trackers like this?

[DarkLured]

What I really cant understand is why they closed Demonoid and Oink, while there are dozens of public trackers that transfer dozens of terabytes still working.

Because they were both targeted by the Major Anti P2P Groups. Both sites were on their radar. Most private tracker sites are not (At the moment). If I were an SysOp or admin, I would want it kept that way.

I think Kyokushin was asking why the large public trackers were not targeted the way Demonoid and Oink were, considering the volume of material transferred over public trackers. Is it in part because of where the large public trackers are operated (i.e. jurisdictional reasons)?

[Yinon]

I'm afraid it's only a matter of time before they start targeting other private trackers

[ramishka]

Any action by the authorities against a tracker is to generate a lot of media hype and attention. This could work as free advertising for the tracker. For example- Danish TPB blockade did actually increase TPB traffic from that country, not reduce it.

Another factor why private trackers have survived so far maybe the so called hydra effect. Authorities were successful in shutting down Oink. But Waffles and What which were created immediately after shutdown (called oink's piglets) are functioning to date without trouble.

And of course, in some countries operating a tracker isn't illegal at all.

[Innos]

a semi-private tracker like demonoid was closed ... but the pubilc tracker like mininova, TPB etc. ... NoT , how come ?

[Kyokushin]

a semi-private tracker like demonoid was closed ... but the pubilc tracker like mininova, TPB etc. ... NoT , how come ?

The same thing that I asked a few posts ago, and that DarkLured responded. It's a matter of location.

[alfry1010]

the number of people is the key that why the privat tracker limit the number of user because more the user is more the server is load and more you attract the autority.

[stoi]

yeah im not going to go with moxie, heard pretty bad things about them