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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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[–] Miyagi1337@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

The end user will generally notice speeds thru way of available peers, but it's also somewhat more secure in saying that normal swarms that can be tracked are far less likely to occur on a private tracker, the analogy low-hanging fruit especially comes to mind. They want to scare off not the tech savvy like us, but end users who are on the fence of doing piracy, most of the beginner users wouldn't know what a private tracker exists and if they do, they probably wouldn't know why and don't use it. Anti piracy coalitions know it's too late to stop pirates because the recession kicked into overdrive on top of it, but try to keep less technically inclined individuals from learning enough to make the switch.