Private trackers

What is a private tracker?

Private trackers provide the same functionality as public trackers, but are generally invite-only. The overall concept is to filter out users who are not willing to seed or give back. If your content needs are filled on public trackers, private ones may not be worth your time.

How secure is a private tracker?

This depends entirely on the practices of whoever is running it and popularity. Niche trackers may go under the radar while larger trackers are targeted by anti-piracy groups and attackers. This explains why many trackers have user limit caps.

Tracker Drama

Heard your favorite tracker's admins are a bunch of invite-sellers? Site linked to notorious webmasters? As long as it's not a honeypot, it really doesn't matter. All you should care about is content anyways, don't bother getting caught up with the latest 123c news.

Notable Private Trackers

• HDbits (HDB)
  • Greatest HD tracker, over 100,000 torrents. Invites are extremely scarce, regarded as hardest tracker to get into.
• What.CD (WCD)
  • Music tracker with massive library, boasting over 2 million torrents. Some inane mods, but you're here for the music.
• Broadcast the Net (BTN)
  • Ratioless television tracker. Regarded as greatest television tracker yet, but invites are now scarce.
• Pass the Popcorn (PTP)
  • Overhyped movie tracker, many torrents unseeded. Honestly not worth it unless you want +10 encodes of the same movie.
• Anime Bytes (AB)
  • Anime tracker with over 100,000 torrents. Great for harder to find content and most complete seasons are freeleech.
• IPTorrents (IPT)
  • General tracker with massive amount of seeded content. Don't fall for the anti-IPT movement, a bunch of pirates on a moral-crusade is just stupid.
• Waffles.FM (WFM)
• TehConnection (TehC)

Private Trackers Flowchart

See Also

• Piracy