Rarelust? Enjoy the slow download speeds tho.

1. For this question just go ahead and read this wiki.
2. If you mainly focus on films or series you don’t have anything currently to worry about. For anything else that requires an executable file, you will just have to trust them. Look at what the community says about release groups. Look at what they say about the uploader, look at his past upload history.

cgpeers and cgpersia forums

It’s available.

No, they download the exact file that the service offers to consumers.

You don’t need a VPN when downloading through DDL. You would only need it if you want to circumvent download limits from the host.

I think you should be covered with those three. Even if either of them don’t upload something utilize the request feature on those trackers.

streamfab or anystream

What tracker are you in for your TV? MTV? They mirror almost everything so you should be good.

Searched a bit better this morning. They release on BTN.

Is there any specific content you’re after by them?

You could just join LAT-TEAM, they give out invites in their discord.

I asked my friends last week, they said it’s a 20 dollar donation for an invite. Uploaders also get invites he said. I would like to get in but not going to pay for an invite even if they label it a donation. If I was patient enough to get into every tracker I wanted I can also wait for them.

I just have a config file with the settings that I want it to use all the time.

What show and episode is this so I can look at their release notes.

They’re staying open because one mod decided to cave and not make it private. You could always go to 4channel general and funpost.

A private tracker is a torrent website that provides the same functionality as a public tracker but is invite-only. This means you need to be a member to view the contents of the site and download its torrents. A tracker can either be semiprivate, where you can create an account for free by just registering your details, or fully private, where another user has to invite you. Within a tracker, there is usually an extensive set of rules covering how much one can download, what kind of content one can upload, what precautions one must take when logging into the site, etc. Such rules and content vary from tracker to tracker, and go from rather liberal with little enforcement to ultra-paranoid and autistic. Advantages of private trackers include:

• Speed: If you’re familiar with torrents, you probably know that the bigger the swarm, the faster you download. Private trackers encourage their members to seed torrents for as long as possible, thus increasing the chances of a torrent having a healthy swarm for longer. Not only that, but many members use seedboxes, which are just servers based in data centers, offering very high speeds and excellent peering. Enough to max out anyone’s home connection.
• Retention: Similarly, private trackers usually enforce rules that encourage long-term seeding. A few peers on private trackers will seed many torrents for obscure content that you wouldn’t normally find any peers for on ThePirateBay or KAT.
• Selection: Some content simply isn’t available on any public site and will only be found on private trackers. Sometimes you can’t even legally buy it at all, ironically. Some trackers specialize in obscure or rare content, ensuring that it doesn’t get lost from the Internet.
• Quality control: A major asset of private trackers, albeit one that can vary a lot across trackers. Good private trackers have stringent rules on the content format, quality, and organization. Music trackers will ensure you don’t get horrible 92kbps transcodes; movie trackers will ensure you only get good encodes, ebook trackers will ensure you get retail quality, etc. Members and staff review and approve each torrent. Trumping rules and the removal of duplicates ensure you only get one, community-approved source for the specific content and format. This, coupled with a decent site layout, makes private trackers much more orderly than public ones.
• Security: There are two reasons private trackers are more secure, albeit they may not apply in the future. The first one is that most of them are obscure enough that no one really knows or cares about them (security through obscurity). The second one is that copyright trolls would rather focus on huge public sites that are easy to fish for peers rather than small communities that are hard to join. From a monetary point of view, it’s more worthwhile to stop 10,000 casuals from downloading two torrents than to stop two neckbeards from downloading 10,000 torrents. There are some caveats to this though, copyright trolls will aggressively pursue the source of leaked pre-release media, such as screeners. As a result, many private trackers do not allow this content. Fortunately, leaked screeners are generally very popular and will be easily found on public trackers anyway. Large prolific piracy groups such as scene or well-known release groups are huge targets for copyright enforcement.

Continue to read this wiki if you want to learn more.