Leeching is just a minimal issue to be dealt with by community blocking. Most communities are flexible in the rules to allow for providing in other ways if constant uploading isn't an option.

I suspect the joke here is that there's always someone trying to bitch about leeching. The Internet has always been trash, blah about the good ol days etc.

Maybe people just idolized the way they initially learned and now blame others when changes happen.

Remember kids, advertising is evil and copyright infringement is the only ethical solution.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

Public torrents were never something I understood for anything not open source.

It's quite simple: you get to find actionable content without needing to enter someone else's Ponzi scheme. It is well known and documented that most private trackers are crap (eg.: the recent YGTL news) and even if they weren't, they are still not really a good (or even medium) option for situations like people behind CGNAT.

[–] Wizard3964@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Public torrents were never something I understood for anything not open source.

What’s so hard to understand? Anyone who wants trumpblowingclinton.jpg can request it from anybody else on the internet who has it.

[–] poke@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

its also satire