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When Is it Time to Look Into Private Trackers or Usenet? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So far, public trackers have been working fine for me, but think I've finally run into some niche shows that have been hard to find or only been able to find individual episodes instead of a single collected season torrent. (Nothing too special, just some baking shows.)

I'm wondering if it's finally time to look into private trackers or Usenet.

If you use them, what did it take for you to finally look into these more time or effort intensive piracy options?

A movie you wanted to see that was too old to be seeded on public trackers? TV shows too old or niche? A game, an obscure music artist? Something else? Was it just curiosity? Or something you did immediately upon getting into piracy? I'm just curious myself lol.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I tend to look towards full blu-ray/remuxes/flac that sort of thing, private trackers are more suited towards that with both p2p groups as well as the general scene groups.

Public torrents work well enough but the release groups that cater to public torrent indexers tend to be in a race to the smallest file possible. Hence you see a ton of "4K" uploads that are tiny for download but are crap for playback beyond a phone screen. Even yify himself knew he wasn't aiming for quality encodes. But generally speaking there will always be people looking for those type of uploads and public torrents do cater towards that.