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How do I go about getting access to a private tracker? (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 days ago by CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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If this is too much like fedposting, I can delete it. I currently have a *arr+Jellyfin on a remote server that uses public trackers, but I'd like to set up a home server and not get letters from my ISP telling me to stop pirating. I've heard private trackers mostly don't suffer from this issue, so I was wondering how to get on one or who to contact or what I need.

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[–] dead@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is partly true. The way that you get flagged for pirating by your ISP is through copyright troll companies. In the US, the ISP shouldn't monitor your internet traffic for torrent activity. There are legal torrents, Linux ISOs as example. Also certain game clients use peer-to-peer downloading. Websites like Peertube (tankietube) uses peer-to-peer file sharing.

The copyright holders pay copyright troll companies to track public torrent peer lists. Then the copyright troll sends a notice to your ISP and your ISP either forwards you the notice or throws it into the trash.

The way that a private torrent works is that the .torrent files you download from the private tracker contains your user hash key. The private tracker only gives peer lists to valid user hash keys. If the torrent client doesn't send your user hash key to the tracker, then the tracker does not give the torrent client a peer list.

Hypothetically, it should be safe to use private torrent without VPN. For copyright troll to collect the peer list from a private tracker, the copyright troll would have to have a user account on the peer list. If a copyright troll did send notices to users of the private tracker, and this has happened before, then it would be pretty simple for the the website admins to locate and ban the user.

A second possibility is that a malicious user leaks the peer list to the public. This happened to me in 2014. A malicious person took the peer list from the private torrent site on and injected the peer list into KickAssTorrents public website, which exposed some users to the copyright trolls.

[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago

Fair point but with a VPN and protections from above you wouldn't have to worry about any of that and just grab what you want off the public trackers.