I’m considering joining my first private tracker. It turns out that most of them need you to pass an interview connected through your home IP. I understand this is a reasonable way to filter scammers and duplicate accounts. Still, to those who did it, how do you feel knowing your main IP is stored and associated to your torrenting history?
I wouldn’t join a private tracker that requires me to expose my real IP. It doesn’t sound serious at all.
Same. I run a VPN 24/7. I always wear my seatbelt! 😉
Idk, i never gave aa fuck.
In general that might be a recipe for better living 99.9% of the time, yet for the paranoid it remains a hard art to master!
are you really that paranoid? then use I2P.
You can definitely join one that doesn’t mind you signing up through a VPN. There are a handful that are picky, of course. I’m mostly fine with those that do have my real IP logged. The reality is that they can’t prove it was me because someone from my IP happened to sign up to some site months or even years ago.
Private trackers really aren’t masters of op sec. They thrive through security through obscurity which the worst kind of “security”. And generally even fail at that (PTP, BTN, RED, OPS are so widely known)
That said I use them and I also don’t use a VPN so I just take that risk. It’s up to you
IP2 definitely sounds intriguing as truly (or close to) anonymous peer to peer
I just never cared. People treat their IP like some secret identity. It’s not as precious as some people think. I go to trackers without VPN all the time. My transmission client is always behind a VPN.
I’ve used private trackers for 13 years, including BTN & PTP, and never gotten a letter or anything.
Just use Usenet.
Is there an eli5 to start using it?
Eweka.nl as usenet subscription. Sabnzbd as usenet downloader (this is where you add the nzb files)
Some forum for Usenet files to download. If you want some, dm me.
That’s basically all you need
I guess you can say I’m a very old pirate when people shared ftps and call them pubs and downloading from bots on mirc kazzaa and emule. I never heard about usenet until I started using lemmy and since then it’s all I hear about lol. I tried to understand it but it feels very complex and cost money
This. Torrenting is fine, but I’m more than happy to pay a small fee for faster speeds and an encrypted connection.
Do you have a static ip? If that’s not the case, than you have nothing to worry about
The ISP logs what IPs are assigned when.
Yeah but trying ti join a private tracker isn’t an illegal activity, right?
That’s not how a static IP works
