SaltySalamander

Maybe you should be working to fix that.

Also would anyone explain why they prefer mp3 to aac and don’t even mention ogg

Compatibility. Fewer devices support ogg and/or acc than mp3.

If you’re this concerned, just stick with public trackers or usenet. Private trackers have rules for a reason. If you’re so paranoid about them, avoid them.

Leechers do not in any way improve the service, i.e. swarm. They harm the swarm by providing nothing to the swarm.

You might get that 10gb movie downloaded in a day or so…

Public torrent users are 99.9% leeches. No thanks.

Most of the private trackers I’m a member of were started by 3 or 4 people.

You missed the point. We aren’t “shopping” at any gas station. As a consumer, I’m going to consume, whether you wish to sell (not rent) it to me or not. Don’t wish to sell? Fine. We will take it anyway.

You downloaded that torrent from seeds. If you don’t seed, you’re just a leech. Do you like leeches in real life?

I will be so disappointed when this happens.

Donating blood and donating blood plasma isn’t the same thing.

I have (anecdotal) evidence that they, in fact, can’t extract useful information from one particular no-log vpn provider in the US, PIA. They showed up to seize data, but walked away empty-handed when they found out that they are, truly, no-log and their servers run entirely from RAM, so no drives to extract data from.

Same! He got lucky and just lost his shit though, didn’t get put in prison. He had a pretty big operation going, with distributors and everything. I typically downloaded the content for him, luckily for me he kept his trap shut.

Adblock exists, and as such, I never see ads. You could do the exact same, for the low low price of $0.

$40, yep, I’d do it. $80? Nope, I’d rather drop $2k on a new HDD array.

Cute

Literally nothing.

No.

It means FLAC bundles and MP3 bundles with names like Zatox-Overdrive_(Original_Mix)-(ITAL044D)-SINGLE-WEB-2024-AOV

Seems as if you don’t really know what the scene is either

17 years is a pretty good record. Site must have been built with some damn good fake doors.