I’m considering joining my first private tracker. It turns out that most of them need you to pass an interview connected through your home IP. I understand this is a reasonable way to filter scammers and duplicate accounts. Still, to those who did it, how do you feel knowing your main IP is stored and associated to your torrenting history?

  • bookworm@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t join a private tracker that requires me to expose my real IP. It doesn’t sound serious at all.

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    1 year ago

    I just never cared. People treat their IP like some secret identity. It’s not as precious as some people think. I go to trackers without VPN all the time. My transmission client is always behind a VPN.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve used private trackers for 13 years, including BTN & PTP, and never gotten a letter or anything.

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    Private trackers really aren’t masters of op sec. They thrive through security through obscurity which the worst kind of “security”. And generally even fail at that (PTP, BTN, RED, OPS are so widely known)

    That said I use them and I also don’t use a VPN so I just take that risk. It’s up to you

    IP2 definitely sounds intriguing as truly (or close to) anonymous peer to peer

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    1 year ago

    You can definitely join one that doesn’t mind you signing up through a VPN. There are a handful that are picky, of course. I’m mostly fine with those that do have my real IP logged. The reality is that they can’t prove it was me because someone from my IP happened to sign up to some site months or even years ago.

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      1 year ago

      This. Torrenting is fine, but I’m more than happy to pay a small fee for faster speeds and an encrypted connection.

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      1 year ago

      I guess you can say I’m a very old pirate when people shared ftps and call them pubs and downloading from bots on mirc kazzaa and emule. I never heard about usenet until I started using lemmy and since then it’s all I hear about lol. I tried to understand it but it feels very complex and cost money

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    1 year ago

    Do you have a static ip? If that’s not the case, than you have nothing to worry about