>have to know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who'll get you in
why bother? what film on there is worth watching that's not on any other public site?
>have to know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who'll get you in
nothing. they all come from the same source.
i was luck and got in when they were doing open signups. sorry zoomie that was like 15 years ago now. it's definitely worth it. extremely well done. just use fmovies zoomie you'll be ok
Literally what's the point of private trackers? Genuinely asking, I've only fiddled with public ones and they just werk.
the only good thing about private trackers is everything is pretty much guaranteed to have seeds
>use Jackett
>public tracker has torrent with no seeds
>try the next public tracker in the list
I bet private trackers are mostly about the private club feel.
It's more about consistency, quality, and seeders but yeah I enjoy dabbing on losers who cant get in my sekrit club too.
but do they have as many torrents as public sites?
Also, why don't the private torrents leak outside?
You'd think someone would share them
Yeah, this is also why some public websites now feature private, paid CDNs for discrete downloads, instead of constantly dealing with random reup requests, but even those are limited in scope. I know I certainly would've liked to ask people I knew were active to help seed old non-Toei Spandex Tokusatsu for me, as some that looked genuinely interesting were long since dead on public trackers.
PTP has better organization than any site I've used for movies. The user created lists are great for finding new films. Netflix used to have these too way back but they took them out. I cancelled my sub shortly after that.
>lots of seeders even for ancient art films
>choice of release (redux, 4k, BD, DVD, scene releases, commentary tracks, Criterion v original, etc)
That's about it. If you're happy with FOTM YIFY Marvel shit then you have no need for private trackers.
It's for MILD convenience that in this day and age isn't even outweighed by the pain in the ass that is maintaining a ratio and getting invited in the first place.
For instance, i just use qbittorrent search and find what im looking for. There's so many public trackers i will definitely get it. If the movie doesn't have subtitles attatched, i just click on vlsub in vlc and it will find them. Private trackers generally have all that shit in the file so there's no hassle, but the hassle is meaningless nowadays bc getting movies has never been easier. Speeds are also pretty much guaranteed to be good with priv trackers, but again even at its worst with public ones im not waiting more than an hour for it to download. And even then i can just download it sequentially and watch it while its downloading
This isn't including rare or obscure content of course, obviously they will have their benefit if you're looking for stuff like that
-Everything is ridiculously fast
-Rare content, and it's all well seeded
-Higher quality encodes
I'm not on PtP coz the requirements to get in are fucking absurd, but i'm on a few other less autistic trackers coz often i cannot find shit i am chasing publicly. Avistaz is an absolute goldmine for eg.
If you live in a fascist shithole like I do Frogland for those wondering it's a good way to avoid losing internet access.
the only case where its actually useful is if youre like some super autist weaboo who wants rips of 1980s foreign films that 10 people watched. for anything else its retarded
Such films usually don't have blurays and even the best quality version looks pretty shitty. And let's not even talk about subtitles as they are often made by amateurs and suck cock.
I imagine private trackers are useful if you're some weirdo or pervert who likes obscure horror movies or those Japanese softcore porn movies with torture and rape (pinku something whatever).
I downloaded a movie on freeleech because I thought the plot sounded funny but then it turned out to be some German softcore. But yeah I see those weird Asian ones posted all the time too
Nothing unless you care about those re-re-release box edition stuff. Also their filesizes are abnormally large and not suited for hoarding
Do they have Liebelei from 1933? I can't find a good quality version anywhere.
yes
I could find only some shitty 700 mb tv rips. I'm guessing this is from dvd?
Pretty nice.
>Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
>quality version
Or you know you can just buy it on dvd. Even private tracker rips are subpar to the real thing (with the exception of remux).
I have both ptp and btn but I never use either because I got bored of watching shit
i don't watch movies
lemme in
Private trackers like ptp are impossible to maintain a ratio unless you are perpetually online and have a seed box.
I don’t even use my account anymore because I don’t like watching transparent propaganda
bonus points you fucking slack jawed schizo retard
>bonus points
Pennies on the dollar. You have to seed for maybe a week to get enough to balance a single 4k non remux movie. And that means your paying god knows what in electric bill
Don't you have off-peak? Also, if you're downloading on a PC, you're watching from a PC (either on it or as network host) so it has to be on anyway.
his point is he would have to leave the PC on 24/7 even when not in use I believe
>shitistan
where do you live then, have you taken a look at electricity prices lately?
Or do you live with your parents
>his point is he would have to leave the PC on 24/7 even when not in use I believe
better for the hard drives anyway, and off-peak would cover the times he's not using it
>I stash them on a HD to watch on the TV
Just use Jellyfin bro, actually moving hardware in 2022 is retarded.
>Just use Jellyfin bro
if you don't physically own it you dont have it.
I own it just as much as you, it's on a hard drive.
Jellyfin is open-source and ad-free unlike Plex.
does Plex have ads? haven’t seen them
I duno, it's terrible and bloated but I thought it did. It certainly pushes its own streaming service.
yeah, it's dogshit if you don't disable them
i like plex, prefer it because the mobile app is nice
The only advertising is for their own content, but once you hide that stuff you will never see it again
I used plex for a minute but I’m a privacy schizo and it’s not even that difficult to just plug in a small hd when I want to add something
I said non remux. 50k is 20gb which is a standard 4k. And I don’t watch capeshit so I’m seeding is very touch and go because no one’s downloading Ordet everyday. So you have to go out of your way to get FL just to seed it and never watch and that’s the only way you can really stay remotely in ratio.
And nah, I stash them on a HD to watch on the TV. It’s not like I don’t seed I’m just saying between electric and computer wear, the only option is a seed box with a script to auto DL or somehow be an uploader which I’m not motivated or connected enough for.
look, whatever works for you works for you. I have not experienced the lack of ratio you seem to and i have SHIT seed times and a ratio backed ENTIRELY by bonus points. no uploads ever. -BUT- I watch on pc and don't watch 4k.
ahh. i don't download 4k remux or live in shitistan where i have to worry about my pc being on.
Try not being poor, nagger
>Try not being poor, nagger
then why not just buy or subscribe to stuff mr richie rich
I’m not poor, I’m saying it defeats the purpose of wanting digital files of shit you already own like
said
and I don’t need a part time job keeping up my ratio so the tracker cabal doesn’t smite me
>paying god knows what in electric bill
Fuck off idiot. Running a computer costs nothing. It's shit like your fridge, hot water, heater/aiconditioner that are making up 99% of your power bill.
I had a laptop melt because I used it for seeding too much
Maintaining a ratio on PTP or any bonus points tracker is easy as fuck. The only difficult tracker to maintain a ratio on nowadays is redacted.
PTP is very generous with bonus points, especially if there are few seeders. And you sit at home browsing Cinemaphile all day every day anyway, you shouldn't need to keep your PC on longer than you normally do.
I have dozens of terabytes of buffer through normal usage, PTP and BTN are basically freeleech paradise. But if you're a minmax autist you can get a raspberry pi and an external hard drive to seed 24/7 with a low power bill.
I miss that site. The current music trackers are all so awful I think I may just subscribe to Spotify.
>not knowing a guy who knows a guy
i got just the guy for you
>2022 and still doesn't have a ptp account with several TVs of buffer
pathetic
I haven’t used a private tracker since I realised how power hungry those homosexuals are. Most of them make you go on an irc and beg to let you use your account again if you stop logging in for a while. I’m not begging some fucking nerd to release my account lmao
>he fell for the private tracker meme
lmfao. literally perfected goyim
Lots of snuff stuff in the hidden section which I haven't seen even back when tor was good.
It's easier to get older, more obscure films because people will keep seeding old shit to keep their ratio up, that's about the only upside. In my experience, most of the time a public tracker will do, privatefags just want to brag about their secret little elite club where they can download films from the 40's that they won't watch anyway.
For all the effort to maintain an account for some obscure films I’d rather just pay someone to watch it.
>finally got into what.cd
>it dies a year later
Modern day burning of the library of alexandria. That site had shit that was literally no where else. Fuck those french homosexuals
>got on WCD
>couldn't download anything because couldn't build a buffer at all without a seedbox
Yeah amazing selection that I couldn't download shit from. Is there a new tracker that isn't the same bullshit forcing you to upload Flacs for any reasonable buffer? I hear RED is the same bullshit which is why I haven't bothered.
Orpheus is great check it out you might have a smaller selection but the community is way better
what.cd was hard but I feel like red is way harder for some reason, and it's not even as worth it
Isn’t red the same thing?
If you think red is the same thing I feel sorry because you genuinely missed out on the largest known library of music, anywhere, ever. Back in the day everyone called Oink the shit. Ohh we are so sad oink palace is gone what a legendary site with so much music. What.cd would surpass oink's library (not evaluating quality, which was also godlike) by like a factor of 10. You could find the one-off promo track ultra japanese limited vinyl from a band you've never even heard of ripped by a diamond tip gold pin gigafuck player. There is legitimately music that was on there, that now likely exists absolutely nowhere. Is just fucking gone. Lost.
I’m mostly a normie with music but I’ve always found what I’m looking for on red 9 times / 10. The only cases seem to be classical stuff which isn’t as nice. Anyway I feel for you and people who contributed, I’m apart of a shit band fan base who basically did to their fans similar to happened to what
I've gone back to being a shitty normie youtube recommended playlist because what is gone. It had a nice "bands like this" system that was kinda shitty but would work enough to point you in places you never thought. And the monthly freeleech was usually a fantastic selection by a bunch of genuine music austists.
What was tough to maintain ratio on if you didn't get lucky with the freeleech I'll definitely admit that. I don't recall though, did they ever have a bonus point system? I feel like there had to be something there because I downloaded a fair bit (not in flac because only mp3 v0 worked on my ipod nano :+] ) and I've never had a seedbox or even fast internet
>did they ever have a bonus point system?
They did not. They had occasional sitewide freeleech that maybe lasted a couple days iirc but I always missed them.
>And the monthly freeleech was usually a fantastic selection by a bunch of genuine music austists.
This is what I miss about it the most tbh.
>torrentleech is open
>join
>missing a lot of fucking shit
fuck
at least it has seeds for relatively newish stuff
you must be absolutely retarded if you find keeping ratio on PTP hard. i've only seeded 95% of my downloads the bare minimum of 48 hours and i have a ratio buffer that i'll never come close to using.
the real kino is on KG & CG anyway - where it is undeniably harder to maintain ratio and even that is easy unless you're a whiney israelite like half the comments here
How much do you actually watch buddy? If you watch a lot, you’ll have issues maintaining. I’ve always had to seed garbage popular stuff to maintain, always
I'm not him but I just grabbed whatever was on freeleech that seemed interesting over the years and have a huge buffer from bp from that. There's no reason to seed garbage if you don't want. There's usually enough interesting stuff being uploaded as long as you check often. Though it might be a little harder now since they don't do the upload contests anymore.
I wish I were on a porn tracker to get my favorites but also I’m trying to quit being a coomer
Honestly, signing up for porn trackers might have been one of the poorer decisions I've ever made. It's hard to quit when you have the best vids of every fetish at your fingertips.
I mostly watch the same clips over and over that are increasingly hard to find because I’m a romantic but yes you’re also correct, I don’t need the additional temptation
I'm in the shitty private sites
>Gazellegames (dogshit, i miss bcg)
>Animebytes (pretty based, easy to get into)
>avistas for asian shit (also kinda based, annoying to get it)
>TL (easy to get in, decent for a general tracker)
Good luck with AB if you forget to log in every so often, those mods are cunts. Told the guy to fuck off when he said “explain yourself and why I should let you back on your account”. I was still seeding at the time and had a great ratio. Fucking dweeb
you'll freeleach i can't believe my little sister has a hemmhoroid and you like it, homosexual
i really like ggn, what's so great about bcg?
that's why I make sure to rank up just enough to whichever rank is immune from inactivity pruning
on animebytes it's power user which is easy to get
>member for 14 days
>upload 10 torrents
>25GB upload
>ratio at least 0.7
for the 10 uploads just find flacs on the site that don't have mp3's on the /better page, transcode it, and bam 10 easy uploads. never have to log in unless they remove your uploads for some reason.
wait you liked blackcats better you fucking retard? I misread this initially and thought you like bitgamer better- which it wasn't, but I, too, have nostalgia for those sites. Blackcats was a trash website ran by cunt mods. Awful layout. Awful to use.
BCG had its problems but it was at least easy to keep a ratio there as long as you had HD space. I can't say the same about GGn. I remember even idling in their IRC just for extra points before I said fuck it. I don't play games much anymore anyway.
I’ve been suspended from red because low ratio because I can’t do math and then I got freeleech for an anniversary but it expired. fml. Go download a bunch of boomer rock albums and maybe I’ll get reinstated soon
Red is the hardest one because it's the easiest to get into (meaning lots of seeders for everything) and music is so particular and niche, and there's no secondary point economy. Thankfully rutracker is pretty solid for music.
I'll someone an invite to PTP for 50 bucks.
I gave this damn polish cocksucka a ptp invite and u know what? He dint even use the thing.
650
that my counter offer btw
Check your PMs
If you never watch any movies with less than 10k logs on letterboxd then you don't need it, but if you're interested in any kind of semi-obscure cinema it's an amazing resource.
When I will finish all the popular stuff I will think of it. So far I never had any problems finding the stuff I wanted to watch. The biggest problem is the lack of seeds or large size of some files. I just want to watch a movie and then delete it and yet I'm forced to download a 25 GB BDremux.
7-12 GB is the ideal size for me.
I guess some rare festival movies are hard to find, but I'm not sure if they are even worth watching in the first place.
I'm just not going to invite anyone, okay! No one!
>illegally binding
MARKED
I was only ever on THC (PBUH) and I almost never used it, but the people were nice and helped me get my torrenting shit together
There is nothing on private trackers, nothing! Don't you and the rest of the public worry about it. Just forget they exist.
Keep that [streaming service] subscription going.
Epic
How do you guys decide what to download, how much bitrate and size does it be etc, or do you guys just smash remuxes all day
Honestly I just look at the screenshots to compare them.
Remuxes are a safe option, but otherwise you should avoid scene group releases since they automate their encoding process.
4K remuxes for stuff I love, 4k non-scene for middle of the road, 1080 if no higher source exists. I almost don’t care as long as it’s over 1080. I see the matrix in line and light anyway
t. Analyze movies and have a folder of my fav shots
My ratio is almost 64, your move incels