How do you overcome the fears of using your home IP to join a private tracker? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by trivial99@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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?

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[-] DeriHunter@lemmy.ml 1 points 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