I decided to share this here too since sailors don’t seem to visit !opensignups@lemmy.ml and the murky waters of the orange sea should be seldom visited anymore.

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for the brave

if you dare a journey that might lead you to the Davy Jones’ locker, the once locked down waters of r/OpenSignups and a newcomer r/trackersignups are places for the brave to check out

Taken from the orange seas wiki which we don’t seem to have here?

► What is a private tracker?

Private trackers are loosely defined as private torrent sites where a membership is required in order to download their torrents. An accurate description would separate private trackers into 2 parts: the tracker itself and the website that accompanies it. A torrent tracker is a server that tracks peers in a torrent swarm and assigns/connects peers to each other based on its own internal criteria. The tracker then reports to the website which, on top of providing a download link to the torrent file, will display all relevant info for that torrent, including peer/seed counts and optionally a peer list if the website operator chooses to include it.

Unlike public trackers, these are not a free-for-all buffet. You need to contribute back (by uploading) a certain amount proportional to the amount you have “taken” from the tracker. This arrangement can vary a lot from tracker to tracker. Private trackers track this balance of contribution by a “ratio”, which is simply a ratio of uploaded data, divided by your downloaded data. If you downloaded a total of 2GB and uploaded a total of 4GB, that would make your ratio a 2.0. Trackers will sometimes have different methods of maintaining an acceptable ratio, either by offering bonuses the longer you keep your torrents seeding, to providing “half-leech” or “freeleech” content. Freelech content is the most commonly used method, which means the torrent that is marked as freeleech is free to download, meaning it does not count against your Download stats, giving you an opportunity to gain upload from it without sacrificing any “download buffer”. Some torrent trackers are “ratioless”, meaning they don’t require you to maintain any sort of ratio in order to keep using the site, they just require a minimum seed-time on all downloaded torrents (which is usually also a requirement on ratio pure trackers, but typically the seed-time isn’t as lengthy as on ratioless trackers).

  • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    That has to be weirdest rule I’ve ever seen in a private tracker. Do they think they’re fooling anyone?

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      10 months ago

      “There are no seeding rules…if you fall below a 0.5 ratio, your downloads will be disabled.”

      That there sounds like a seeding rule.

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        10 months ago

        Maybe what they meant was that there isn’t a rule about needing to seed individual torrents to a certain point? Seeing how they also mention “maintain a global”, which is pretty normal for lots of private trackers. But that is my guess, even though it still counts as a “seeding rule.”

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        10 months ago

        What they mean is that there are no hit and run rules. Other private trackers tend to expect you to side a certain amount of time during a given time frame.

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      10 months ago

      Well if I bought then it’s mine and I can do whatever I want with it. So that’s inside “legal rights”, right? Right?

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      10 months ago

      It’s supposed to be a legal safeguard. Strictly speaking you are only downloading torrent files from the actual site so it’s not possible to violate this rule.