I highly appreciate all trackers and the work everyone puts into it but the longer I’m part of the system, the longer I see that nothing really changes (2/3 years time horizon). Most websites are old, on 9 out of 10 trackers it’s incredibly difficult (time intensive) to upload torrents. Innovation and rules are also very slow

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    1 year ago

    BS. I’ve been torrenting in Germany for over 10 years and nothing happened. You just need to understand what you are doing. VPN and/or private trackers and you are safe.

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      1 year ago

      me, too - but how does that invalidate my point that almost everyone knows someone that got such a letter and that that in general turns away a lot of people from taking their first steps

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        1 year ago

        Then why don’t you try to educate people instead of scaring them back out of the seas? Genuine question.

        It’s a easy as “don’t torrent without a VPN”.

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          1 year ago

          OP was asking for reasons why German torrent trackers are so slow to get new stuff and I just explained the reason why people are not using torrents as much here

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            1 year ago

            Wow. I guess I framed my question as wrong as possible.

            I meant the “websites” not the torrents nor the content.