Cool, then what will be the 1337x alternative?
I learned about https://torrentgalaxy.to/ recently. I’m not positive it’s a good alternative though.
Private sites that people upload torrents to. A lot of them have requirements like “upload at least 1 content that we don’t have” and “must maintain a seed ratio of x”. Most that I’ve seen either have closed registrations, requiring someone to invite you as a referral, or they have interviews to make sure you’re not malicious”.
I’ve always wanted to be in one because every once in a while I can’t find content that’s old/obscure and it’s super annoying and supposedly private trackers have a bunch of old/obscure content as-well as super new stuff like blu ray rips and native stream rips.
EDIT: I think it is amazing that I have 10 upvotes, and -1 downvotes, resulting in 11 upvotes.
invite only torrent sites.
reddit used to have its own private tracker, baconBits, spawned on christmas day 2009. It shut down May of last year.
there’s plenty of others, though.
The benefit of private trackers is that since they’re invite-only, you don’t really run the risk of running into copyright cops who want to send you cease and desist notices. They generally tend to go for the easy fish at the public trackers like 1337x and torrentgalaxy. There is a sort of “circle of trust” on private trackers and it can be really easy to get your account banned if someone you invite got banned. They take the circle of trust pretty seriously on a lot of them. (That sounds more scary than it is, I’ve never seen it in practice, but the general rule is “don’t invite people who will cause trouble, because you’ll be accountable for their behavior since you invited them.”)
Also, many private trackers have an upper limit on users, and stop accepting new users when they hit that limit. Keeping user bases small also keeps you more “under the radar.”
Finally, private trackers are also a source of many scene groups releases, so if you get on certain trackers, you’ll have faster access to certain releases.
I’ve heard torrent leech has the same problem. The same guy uploaded it everywhere
Look for releases on the sites of the groups / ppl releasing them. Most offer trackers they seed to.
Other than that and private trackers, I like torrends.to to meta search for torrents, but there proceed with caution.
Was tempted to download it last night.
You know it’s bad when the almost constantly unhinged ‘Empress’ is the one speaking sense.
You looked at that screenshot and said, “Ah yes, here’s someone speaking sense” ?
This is also a TVTropes article, of course.
Yeah, except EMPRESS was just complaining that her own torrents got deleted, not that others were unsafe
Buddy it’s been posted here a dozen times since BG3 release
The difference this time is that Empress was angy wangy and had to cry.
In reality it was indeed a few bad releases of a popular game on a popular site… 1337x constantly had these. Just like Pirate Bay had them. I never go there expecting safety in the first place.
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