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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[-] AvgApartheidLover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

You also get access to a broad repository of the history of a particular torrent. Like ever preferred a really obscure version of your favorite torrent? Probably impossible to find unless it was a really popular Vidya game and there's a legacy torrent still seeding.

I've still got a Myanonamouse (Private Book Tracker) account purely because there are certain editions of books that quite literally don't exist in print except as a used copy on Amazon. But because some degenerate decided to commit all their scans to a Seedbox, ebook versions of obscure early science fiction now exist.

Very niche, but also incredibly useful if you come across something that you just can't find elsewhere.

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