I never use a vpn with torrents. Private trackers in my experience have been enough to be fine. The only times in 20 years of torrenting tons of shit I’ve gotten isp letters were once I downloaded a Pokémon rom from a pubic tracker, which was stupid, and once I had a roommate that downloaded some shitty movie from a public tracker

Alternatively usenet

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I've always found private trackers to be almost unusably bureaucratic

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yup, same. Your options are usually either “pay for fake ratio bonuses” or “seed dead torrents for six months in order to get enough time credit to convert into ratio.” If you’re trying to chase the freeleech tags, then you’ll never hit decent ratios because now you’re seeding a torrent that has 1000 other seeds and only 5 leeches.

And if you have to pay for fake ratio to get started, just fucking pay for Usenet and skip the hassle instead.

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

IPtorrents is the best. You should try to keep a 1:1, but you just have to seed for 2 weeks, and you get points for 15 torrents to use as upload credit, even if you don’t upload a single byte. I’ve never had to think about my ratio.

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