Daily reminder that private trackers are a meme. Most of it hinges on "Since they are private and you need an account, less chance of being caught and getting DMCA notices." which isn't true.
Actually working on a case where someone is being sued and used 'private' trackers (and yes, they honestly thought that private flag DRM system (and yes it's DRM, since it exists to lock you into only authorised servers for authorised users, so their activity can be monitored and controlled) would protect them.
It's known to have been nonsense for over a decade, but it's still used as a marketing hook.
Lots of people feel the TSA makes them safer, despite failing 95%+ of the "red team tests", mostly because it's run by people who don't really have knowledge of the issues, but are just doing what they're told, and relying on 'everyone knows' and 'obvious innit?'
Same thing with "private" trackers. most of them running it don't have a lot of knowledge of BitTorrent, or the security threats, only what they've taught themselves based on the rumour mills.
Now, yes, public trackers are targeted more often still, because the profit ratio is still there. but the days of those are just about over, as its going to require more in the way of evidence. Evidence that 'private' sites provide, both in logged data, and in the substantially smaller repeat pool (if you can snag the same user on 3 related torrents, each time on a different IP that then resolves to the same ISP account) or from data from an account, the use of the DRM flag to allow only members in, and that those members are somehow 'vetted' is amusing, because you can't vet people as they claim to, and goes back to the old myth of 'an undercover cop has to tell the truth if you ask them if they're a cop' thing - companies can and do lie, and torrent to get access to those groups.
You are a cancer on this board that you don't even belong. I hope you all die in horrible, painful ways while your lover fucks a nigger
