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If piracy is moral and ethical and enables us to share knowledge, why do private trackers gatekeep this knowledge? It goes against the principles of piracy. Do they do it just to feel superior about bring in a sekrit club?

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[–] plague_sapiens@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I think there's lot less potential abuse, if you control your tracker and the peers. If I remember correctly, you usually have to seed till a specific ratio is reached. I doubt that any copyright-infringment-abuse-company tries to get acces to those trackers, if they have to upload stuff at first.

[–] lukas@lemmy.haigner.me 1 points 8 months ago

Copyright alliances try to get access to private trackers, but only the database that tracks everything to arrest big uploaders. They don't need anything else. Private trackers, as the name implies, track everything, a treasure trove of incriminating evidence.