What is the benefit to joining private torrents? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by editediting@kbin.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Apologies if this is a basic question, but I am curious to know what I am missing out on by not having access to private torrents? I have been able to find everything I wanted using public ones.

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[-] ram@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

If you don’t have your own full time torrent server with high upload bandwidth, it’s going to be difficult to get the seed ratios you need.

I agree with this for some trackers, but many give bonus points based on passive seeding as well, which can then be exchanged to contribute to your upload ratio. Just having a large drive to use for seeding should be enough - that's what I've done at least for nearly 8 years now.

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