On: YTS torrent tracker part of new anti-piracy scheme

[jokoon]

I was always curious why the website told me to register, felt very suspicious. Some torrents are restricted to users, weirdly.

Not to mention the occasional shady popup ads.

The weirdest thing about YTS, is the high quantity of very low-quality movies it has. I mean things you would not watch even if it was free. It makes it impossible to really pick anything.

So in doubt and in paranoia, I would say that I have low trust for YTS.

[libertine → jokoon]

>I was always curious why the website told me to register, felt very suspicious. Some torrents are restricted to users, weirdly.

That was mostly to control ratios, and force people to seed torrents and stop them from leeching (downloading and delete the torrent/not seed).

If you had a bad ratio, your access to seeds was also limited therefore the speed at which you downloaded was capped.

Some trackers eventually started to monetize themselves by offering "premium accounts" that would bypass the ratio, and allowed users to leech.

Mind that this is my knowledge from almost 20 years ago.

[unraveller → jokoon]

One big draw is that they get around to rare movie requests in weeks to months for members. Their website is the most popular daily feed people sit on for the trickle of any thing good so they must be doing something right. Though I had to make a violentmonkey script [1] to auto hide all the b-grade dumps of late.

[1] https://pastebin.com/raw/AmAP0fjD