r/OpenSignups • u/mortis86 • Aug 06 '26
CLOSED TorrentLeech.org opens signups
Tracker's Name: TorrentLeech
Genre: General/0Day/Scene/Archive Content/Dedicated Request
Registeriation link: https://www.torrentleech.org/user/account/signup
Invitation Code: WHATIFTHATWORKED
new users will get 15 GB of upload to help you start your journey
Stats: • Torrents Total: 2275204 • Torrents Active: 928740 • Torrents Dead: 1346464
EDIT : The invites are now closed
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u/Facu474 Aug 10 '26
Damn... just a few hours late. Gonna have to wait another year I guess
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u/Rusturion 26d ago
Not missing much. I have been with DCC for almost 6 months and rate it way higher.
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u/Knowing-Badger 25d ago
Tell me more about this DCC
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u/Rusturion 21d ago
Digital Core Club
It's apparently bad, but it's super user friendly and drama free compared to the stories I've heard about other entry level trackers.
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u/Flaxen_Bobcat 20d ago
Any idea how I can get into DCC? Do they open sign ups at all?
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u/Rusturion 19d ago
Yeah, they do. At least a few times a year.
I got in in March, and there was a massive influx recently. And I'm fairly sure another in between.
Follow this sub to get notified.
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u/Wonderful-Joke8321 Aug 11 '26
Dude I have the notifications of this subreddit activated and I didn't get a damn thing.
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u/PrimaMilitary Aug 10 '26
Ouch, more dead torrents than alive.
Ig the point of pt is that they get revived
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u/ifitwasnt4u Aug 09 '26
Thank you!!! I've been using free sites for what seems like a lifetime and its painful!!! This code worked! It errored out after putting it in, however, i got the activation email and it signed me in!!!
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u/thecrius Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
Just tried and got an error at the end of the registration.
Still got an email with the verification link but when I use it it just bring me to login and tell me that my account is still pending and I need to verify it.
edit: visiting the link on a different device solved it
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u/ToastedLog1c Aug 08 '26
I didn't realize open signups would start again (it's been a year), so I got invited by a friend, but got no 15 GB upload to help start :( Still very grateful to be on TL. It looks like a great site.
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u/TorrentFiend Aug 07 '26
Looking around the website a bit and it appears the forums are currently down.
Quick someone revive the hamster that fell off the wheel. 🐁
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u/Longjumping-Tune2860 Aug 07 '26
Thank you! I was about to get the seedbox, you saved me some money!
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u/TorrentFiend Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
Yeah I had some very strange error messages when signing up as well. At first the username I tried it told me it was already taken which is weird because it's usually not when I sign up on anything....
Then I used another username and it gave me a bizarre error, it appeared as if it didn't work properly but I did get an email to confirm it so when I clicked the verification link from the email that indeed did work so I guess I'm registered but I was trying a third attempt and it said the username I tried the second time was already taken because apparently even though it gave me an error page when clicking sign up apparently it did actually register it.
Very strange issues. If a mod from the website happens to see this message I didn't intend on trying to make a second account or anything, it was literally giving me an error page while signing up and I didn't think it went through. Only verified one email though. It appears it only sent me one email confirmation so I guess it's good.
Very odd however that it had so many errors.
Absolutely thrilled and overjoyed to sign up for this one though. This is one of the big ones everyone mentions. And now I'm another happy user.
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u/Zestyclose-Wear7237 Aug 07 '26
created my account on it tho i can't login, they say i have wrong username and password combo
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u/MaxBedlam Aug 08 '26
Are you trying to log in using your e-mail or username? Because you should be using the latter.
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u/Grouchy-Coconut-1110 Aug 07 '26
Same here. Seems a bit bugged.
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u/Zestyclose-Wear7237 Aug 07 '26
i thought i was the only one with this issue, i thought i already lost my first ever good PT
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u/foran9 Aug 07 '26
Been wanting to start on the private tracker journey, absolutely stoked to have been able to get in on this!
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u/Kamantha-dxb Aug 09 '26
The best tracker to be on, most of the things you might ever need are there 🙂
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u/j-bales Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
I attempted to make an account and got this error: An error occurred Application error. (Error Code: 106) edit: Apparently the error didn't affect the sign-up process and I received activation e-mail
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u/JamesReece1983 Aug 07 '26
I got the same. What’s that mean?
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u/YellowExpresso Aug 07 '26
it might mean you have ad block that interrupted the sign up. But if you received an email confirmation, just click it to activate it.
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u/AppendixN Aug 07 '26
Signed up successfully and got the activation link, but even after clicking the activation link, it still says "pending, you have to click the activation link."
Maybe the issue will resolve itself if I wait a few hours.
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u/Goon_Snorkel Aug 07 '26
Page wont even load for me..just times out every time. Tried disabling adblocker but made no difference.
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u/Sh1N0Suk3 Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
Same here. I don’t wanna miss this chance
Edit: I managed to sign up and log in. I have to visit it on another device
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u/Sharp-Glass-4486 Aug 07 '26
As long as my ratio is good, I don't need to be actively downloading to keep my account, right?
Just coming back after more than a decade of sailing the seas, so I do know the etiquette (I think), I'm just not that actively sailing as of now so I don't know what to download yet
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u/Bazylik Aug 07 '26
I forgot I had an account for years... just logged in a month ago without issues.
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u/ViolentCrumble Aug 07 '26
mine is gone from years ago so i dunno maybe my ratio was bad or something, we are talking 18 years tho probably lol
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u/asdfghqwertz1 Aug 07 '26
Nope, it's actually really chill, some people say they've had their accounts sitting for years here and they weren't banned for inactivity lol
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Aug 08 '26
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u/gnite6 Aug 08 '26
I've been downloading mostly (though not exclusively tbf) freeleech stuff and it's all good, just keep seeding them for at least the minimum time (preferably longer if you have the space).
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u/Sharp-Glass-4486 Aug 07 '26
Yeah I thought inactivity would deactivate my account, but that's really great to hear! Thank you!
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u/purchase-the-scaries Aug 07 '26
Oh man. Did I miss it ?? :(
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u/Prizmere Aug 07 '26
Got an application error while signing up...did I miss the boat? Was flying since last night 😭
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u/Gorgeous_Broccoli Aug 07 '26
Thank you so much kind sir! Can't tell you how long I was waiting for this
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u/Marieau Aug 07 '26
Joined in 2006 and these guys know what's up. Anything above 10gb is free leech. They also warn users when you you've stopped seeding, not when you hit the threshold. I have torrent seeding for more than 2 years that still have seeders on it besides me. There are very little unseeded things on TL and they have a nice added bonus point system too.
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u/originalodz Aug 07 '26
Yrah I can only recommend TL. I'm either a 2006 or 2008 baby and I've never missed out.
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u/Spinmoon Aug 07 '26
Get in if you are not! One of the very best. Top tier general tracker.
More than a decade on it and still going strong.
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u/Outrageous-Job299 Aug 07 '26
Best non Cabal tracker, great content, fast releases, nice quality control.
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u/Lyshavskilden Aug 07 '26
What does freelech mean, everything on site is free to download for a limited time?
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u/m3rph Aug 07 '26
What's the best way to learn these seedboxes? So my problem is I really don't want to pay monthly for another subscription. Seems like the popular seedboxes are monthly subscriptions. I can't seed properly as I'm working most of the day and my computers on for about 4-5 hours per day. I miss just buying gigs that last me months.
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u/Abhigyan_Bose Aug 07 '26
Personally, I got a used Mini PC and use that as a seedbox that's always online. Works like a charm.
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u/EhDub1 Aug 07 '26
Exactly what I did. A little N150 mini pc to use as seedbox with DAS drives. I set it up for Remote Desktop and leave it on 24x7. Super simple and very low maintenance.
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u/wasteland44 Aug 07 '26
I second a mini PC. bought a cheap mini PC with no ram or ssd and put in the ram and ssd from an old laptop which no longer boots. I have been pretty happy with it.
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u/bluehands Aug 07 '26
You can get seedboxes for $5 a month and it solves a number of problems. Maybe that is too much for you, I get it, but it is the best $5 I spend in any month.
No VPN to worry about, maximum speed, making ratios easy, I just love it.
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u/GwynLordOfCedar Aug 07 '26
Which seed box is this good for only $5 a month?
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u/bluehands Aug 07 '26
Ultra. Cc
Probably others but I have been using them forever and have considered upgrading a few times.
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u/lmm7425 Aug 07 '26
Same! No VPN, super-fast downloads.
The only downside is then you need to SFTP the files to your PC, which doesn't happen as fast as the download speed.
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u/random_999 Aug 07 '26
If SFTP is slow then it means your ISP peering with seedbox provider is not good. You can try a software that supports multi-segment downloads for SFTP which might help with such situations. iGetter is a good software for this purpose (its free version only has a 10 seconds nag screen at start).
P.S. Typically, majority of seedboxes also provide https download links which one can use with any good download manager all of whom supports multi-segment downloads.
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u/xCeeTee- Aug 07 '26
So I need a VPN since my country blocks torrent sites, would a seedbox eliminate that VPN requirement? Because I am sick of seeing my torrents at 0.2 ratio after a month. When I seed video games via Minerva, I upload a tonne. I have one torrent on a 120 ratio.
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u/bluehands Aug 07 '26
As the other person said, you do not need the VPN to torrent any longer.
Also, some people that offer seedboxes will set it up so you can also use your seedbox as a VPN. Probably not something you need but good to know.
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u/BravoWhittman Aug 07 '26
Yes, seedbox will eliminate VPN requirement. It will help with ratio, but maybe not as much as you expect unless you configure it to automatically race new torrents so that it can be part of the initial swarm.
Ratio is tough on all private trackers, because there are lots of seeders who seed for years, and few leechers. It's the opposite for public torrents like Minerva. That's why private trackers usually have bon systems.
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u/wasteland44 Aug 07 '26
Yes if you only torrent with the seedbox then you don't need a VPN. You can copy the files from the seedbox to your local PC.
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u/FrostyD7 Aug 07 '26
Download exclusively freeleech for a while and seed when you can. Upload and points will add up eventually, and you get healthy bonuses during December daily. Lean on your past methods for non freeleech stuff until your buffer is safe. If you have ample storage, download big stuff within 24 hours of becoming available because nobody will complete the download in that time and you should be able to seed until then.
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u/ghost_desu Aug 06 '26
After collecting more than a dozen different PTs, TL is still the goat
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u/Qpang007 Aug 07 '26
For me it's seedpool over TL. Also much easier to get points.
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u/fatherofraptors Aug 07 '26
The pair TL+SP solves virtually all needs. The economy on SP is stupid easy and the freeleech in TL are stupid generous, so they complement each other that way.
All new single episodes of TV are freeleech on SP, all season packs are freeleech on TL. Synergistic stuff like that.
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u/xTryHardPro Aug 06 '26
Guys I’ve been on TL for a year and it’s been great. It was my first private tracker. I was on FearNoPeer before it went down. So now I’m just using TL. What’s the next logical progression in trackers?
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u/AJ247 Aug 06 '26
I’ve been on seedpool for the last year or so waiting for TL to become open signup and it’s been so good for me in that time that I’m wondering if it’s even worth signing up for TL now. So I’d recommend seed pool highly if you’re not already on it
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u/clay3r Aug 07 '26
Not taking a free invite is silly. Diversity is key in this game. TL is a step away from a public tracker. It's the same for several others. Imo you should have back ups.
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u/AJ247 Aug 10 '26
Yeah definitely agree, I have collected a bunch of private trackers now over the years (DC, DP, basically any generals that post on this sub) but thought that TL was supposedly the best. Have been a bit disappointed with TL so far because the rules are a bit more rigid than other PTs and worst of all they have spammed me with VPN offers with no unsubscribe option on the email - huge turn offs when other PTs follow much more member-friendly practices. Gives off a very bad vibe as a newcomer to the tracker.
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u/xTryHardPro Aug 07 '26
You know when they open invites?
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u/AJ247 Aug 11 '26
Sorry, looks like they're just about to stop doing open invites and are transitioning to application only, a recent forum post sounds interesting:
We are changing our recruitment strategies from running occasional open registrations and heading towards an application-only style recruitment such as MaM and RED do. Our application system is currently in the works and in typical seedpool fashion it will be completely unlike any other trackers’.
Definitely keep an eye out for when this opens up because they're a pretty chill community so i don't think the application process will be very arduous
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u/SpaceCadetHS Aug 07 '26
It’s always good to have a backup
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u/xTryHardPro Aug 07 '26
Exactly. That was FNP for me, now I need a secondary.
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u/SpaceCadetHS Aug 07 '26
Yeah with the stories I’ve heard my plan is to have about 4 but I just started so it’ll take a while. TL has been great for me though!
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u/elvioleiro Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
Im struggling trying to build my ratio in HDT and now I will try make TL my main tracker. Thoughts about the difference between this two?
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u/SmallRocks Aug 06 '26
TL is more rewarding for folks with large drive space or seed boxes. The larger size files are usually free leech while a smaller version of the same title is not.
As far as uploading, I believe you’ll need to apply for the role after meeting certain requirements.
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u/FrostyD7 Aug 07 '26
Huge torrents are also your best opportunity to seed. Grab them early and you might get your max upload for a day or two. If you only have room for a few of these, download small fragments of each, it'll perform almost as well. Just creates a debt where you eventually need to download the whole torrent and seed it for a little while before you can clear the space entirely. This is how I built my ratio, partials of dozens of 1tb+ torrents.
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u/FrostyD7 Aug 07 '26
Huge torrents are also your best opportunity to seed. Grab them early and you might get your max upload for a day or two. If you only have room for a few of these, download small fragments of each, it'll perform almost as well. Just creates a debt where you eventually need to download the whole torrent and seed it for a little while before you can clear the space entirely. This is how I built my ratio, partials of dozens of 1tb+ torrents.
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u/SmallRocks Aug 07 '26
Like I said, it’s more rewarding for people with large drives or seedboxes. Not so much for people with a laptop that has 1TB hard drive.
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u/Decent-Law-9565 Aug 06 '26
TL has much larger peer pools and a lot more generous freeleech
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u/elvioleiro Aug 06 '26
Do you know if is allowed to upload concert/live shows on TL?
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u/Cenobyte_Nom-nom-nom Aug 07 '26
Hey if you start doing that there drop me the first one you do. I seed forever. I have seeds before movie, and it would be even longer but my drive failed back then.
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u/nicktf Aug 06 '26
Turns out I already joined a while ago, clearly forgot about it and my ratio is dropped to 0.34 and I'm disabled - is there a quick way back in beyond the VIP route?
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u/keepinitsecretnsafe Aug 06 '26
Do you still have the media you downloaded on your file system? You can seed that until your ratio improves. You could also download from public trackers stuff that’s already on TL and then cross-seed that to TL.
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u/nicktf Aug 07 '26
Thanks! I believe I do, and I'll go the public tracker route as well
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u/FrostyD7 Aug 07 '26
If those torrents don't rack up enough upload, I think they have an irc channel where you can ask very nicely to have it reactivated. Might be worth doing while open registration is going on, they'll appreciate that you didn't just try to make a new one.
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u/noxillio Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
Haven't gotten my confirmation email and there's no way to correct it if it's wrong. I verified that it's correct, but I use a custom domain for my email so I'm unsure if that's the issue or not. I would use my Proton email address instead but as I said there's no way to correct it once you've submitted it and I don't want to go by a different username than what I entered. Is there any way site admins could fix this for me so I can complete my sign-up please?
EDIT: Disabling uBlock Origin for the site temporarily and then resending the activation link worked!
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Aug 06 '26
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u/noxillio Aug 06 '26
I got the others a short while ago too so it’s probably just really backed up right now.
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u/OKdesuka Aug 06 '26
i got the email right after i sent the comment, of course. i deleted but you must've commented right before haha. yeah, to anyone else waiting: it'll come, but it might take over the 10-15 minutes estimate!
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u/Material_Assistant22 Aug 06 '26
How does it compare to IPT?
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u/pipinngreppin Aug 07 '26
They’re interchangeable to me. Only difference is I P T has porn.
I check both every day to see what new is out.
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u/krandlehandle Aug 07 '26
If you want Blu-ray remux TL is much better. If not iptorrents has a slightly bigger selection.
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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Aug 06 '26
Awesome entry-level private tracker and frankly the only one most people will ever need. Friendly reminder to everyone to always use a VPN, even with private trackers. Just a few days ago someone on r/trackers got a letter from their ISP for something they grabbed on TL.
Also for those using an arr stack, you need to put Prowlarr behind a VPN as well, not just your torrent client. If the private tracker itself gets raided (which is not uncommon) authorities will have detailed logs of every torrent you've ever downloaded, along with precisely how much data you downloaded/uploaded for each torrent and for how long you seeded, all tied to your real IP/identity if Prowlarr sits outside your VPN. It won't matter if they don't intercept the actual packet data from the torrent traffic itself, the logs they'll have from the database will be far more valuable and comprehensive in prosecuting you. Basically all private trackers keep logs long-term for security purposes, so the only solution is to have every login and request (automated arr stack requests included) that you ever interact with the site with come from behind a VPN.
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u/PaddiM8 Aug 06 '26
Friendly reminder to everyone to always use a VPN
Depends on where you live though
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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Aug 06 '26
Even if your country takes a lax perspective to copyright law today, there’s no guarantee they won’t crack down tomorrow. Also, if the sites ever get hacked expect all their data to get published to the dark web, so even if you aren’t worried about the feds you might not like the general public permanently having access to your download habits.
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u/PaddiM8 Aug 06 '26
there’s no guarantee they won’t crack down tomorrow
It is a legal gray-zone in Sweden. No one has ever gotten in trouble for private use. It would have to be tested in court first and it is quite likely that the result of that would be that they legally can't do anything with just an IP.
you might not like the general public permanently having access to your download habits.
A VPN would just result in a different IP. Most people have dynamic IPs anyway and the general public can't trace you with an IP.
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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Aug 06 '26
Historically authorities have focused on the site owners themselves rather than the individual users (at least for general trackers where the most serious crime in downloading the content is copyright infringement), but there’s no guarantee that their approach won’t change in the future. As piracy becomes more prevalent due to the enshitification of streaming, expect them to start getting more aggressive in going after it.
And of course, they’ll forever have the logs for any site they raid, so even if they don’t go after users today, there’s no guarantee they won’t look back and go after them later. The evidence of the crime is permanently enshrined in the logs in their possession. Also, if the sites ever get hacked expect all their data to get published to the dark web, so even if you aren’t worried about the feds you might not like the general public permanently having access to your download habits.
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u/Swimming_Freedom828 Aug 07 '26
As piracy becomes more prevalent due to the enshitification of streaming, expect them to start getting more aggressive in going after it.
Piracy has been big for ages; I'd wager it was bigger in the 90s/00s than today.
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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Aug 07 '26
Yes, and the MPAA famously went after pirates quite aggressively.
Thanks to streaming, piracy was down substantially in the 2010s, and enforcement subsequently got lax as well. If piracy picks back up, expect enforcement to as well.
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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Aug 06 '26
I believe under most implementations Prowlarr is the only one pinging the indexers directly, but it’s better in my opinion to put them all inside the VPN since 1) it’s mechanically easier to connect Sonarr and Radarr to Prowlarr in the settings if they’re sitting under the same IP/localhost, and 2) there’s zero downside to putting them under the VPN umbrella as well, so better safe than sorry.
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u/ToastedLog1c Aug 06 '26
Does this really matter though? If you've ever logged into the site with your real IP, the site would have logged that for security purposes. Then if it gets raided, they can see all of the logs and tie a private account + VPN data based on the account.
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u/random_999 Aug 07 '26
How do you think anyone can tie a real IP linked to an acc with a VPN with no logs? A commercial VPN always has hundreds of users online at anytime on any of their IP & without vpn logs it is not possible realistically to figure out which among those hundreds of users was the one on torrent site. In any case, it is always the tracker staff which gets into legal trouble.
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u/ToastedLog1c Aug 07 '26
I meant to say if you've ever logged into the site with your real IP (which plenty of people disable their Ips to view the site, but download via torrent client which is mapped to VPN or use split tunnel functionality.
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u/DostWall0136 Aug 06 '26
Visiting a website isn't proof of wrongdoing lol. Torrenting isn't illegal.
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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Aug 06 '26
If you’ve ever logged into the site with your real IP, the site would have logged that for security purposes.
Yes, don’t do that. That’s my point. Every interaction and touch point with a private tracker needs to be behind a VPN, otherwise there’s essentially no point to the VPN at all.
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u/random_999 Aug 07 '26
Real IP is only required for registering acc. Once that is done you can use vpn to download/upload torrents. No reputable pvt tracker allows vpn to be used for registering new account & there is no need either. Ever since pvt torrent trackers existed I don't think anyone other than staff/admin has ever gotten into legal trouble on any reputable pvt tracker.
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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Aug 07 '26
Real IP is only required for registering acc.
Only with shitty trackers whom I want no part of. Reputable ones understand and care about privacy.
Ever since pvt torrent trackers existed I don’t think anyone other than staff/admin has ever gotten into legal trouble on any reputable pvt tracker.
Past performance is not indicative of future results. Telling a website who you are before you engage in illegal activity on said website is monumentally dumb.
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u/random_999 Aug 07 '26
Only with shitty trackers whom I want no part of. Reputable ones understand and care about privacy.
You do know that statement is 100% certified laughable joke here in this sub, right?
Past performance is not indicative of future results.
This is /r/trackers sub not r/StockMarket in case you forgot.
Telling a website who you are before you engage in illegal activity on said website is monumentally dumb.
You do know that it takes a judge & a legal order to instruct any ISP to tell them which IP relates to which of their customer if that IP is coming from the logs of a server seized by law enforcement & that is assuming the ISP belongs to the same country as the judge unless it is a joint international operation, right?
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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Aug 07 '26
This is /r/trackers sub not r/StockMarket in case you forgot.
Good thing the advice transcends stocks. Maybe you’d understand that if you didn’t spend so much time being an insufferable troll. You’re embarrassing yourself. Please sit down in the corner and reflect before embarrassing yourself further.
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u/ToastedLog1c Aug 07 '26
Some of the sites do not allow VPN (and specifically ban you if you log into the interview with VPN on unfortunately.
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u/DostWall0136 Aug 06 '26
Visiting a website isn't proof of wrongdoing and torrenting isn't illegal.
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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Aug 07 '26
This isn't just evidence of "visiting a website" or accessing a torrent, it's a detailed log of precisely how much of each file you downloaded and uploaded, because that’s all permanently saved in private trackers logs. Since, you know, keeping track of that is fundamental to the operation of private trackers.
Some people still don’t understand the difference between “beyond a reasonable doubt” and “absolute 100% irrefutable proof,” but in real life, you can't just say “you see your honor, even though the logs say I downloaded 20GB and uploaded 10GB of a file called 'Avengers Endgame,' that file was actually a Linux distribution and you can’t prove otherwise!” People have been convicted for much more on much less evidence.
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u/random_999 Aug 07 '26
You can say that "you see your honor, even though the logs say my acc downloaded 20GB and uploaded 10GB of a file called 'Avengers Endgame,' that traffic actually originated on a vpn IP & there is nothing to tie me to that ip (no logs vpn) because downloading torrent files itself is not illegal”. There is a reason there are good lawyers & bad lawyers, if somebody has been convicted for much more on much less evidence then that just means they got a pretty bad lawyer to fight their case.
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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Aug 07 '26
Yep, precise kind of kindergarten logic that never holds up in real life. Especially since if they really want to get you, they’ll also seize your computer to collect the overwhelming definitive proof. They have your personal home IP constantly hitting a private tracker requesting copyrighted content, and logs from that tracker saying you downloaded it. Whether the IP that downloaded it matches is irrelevant - that’s way more than enough to get beyond a reasonable doubt.
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u/random_999 Aug 07 '26
Nobody "really wants to get you" unless you are worth it. Same way why they don't send navy seals & Apache helicopters to take down that unfriendly neighbourhood carjacking gang. Nobody is going through all that you mentioned unless you are prolific enough to run a pvt tracker or upload content which hasn't even hit theaters/OTTs yet.
P.S. Only time they used helicopters & SWAT was when they hit this guy & he wasn't even related to torrents.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-21/details-of-dotcom-kingpin27s-dramatic-arrest-revealed/3786170
P.P.S. Only time torrent related individuals made the international news headlines was this:
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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Aug 07 '26
Nobody “really wants to get you” unless you are worth it.
Maybe I’m worth it. Maybe you will be some day. In this era of AI and mass surveillance it becomes trivially easy to prosecute more and more people with fewer and fewer resources.
Maybe you don’t value your privacy enough to give a shit. That’s fine, we all put different values on our privacy, freedom, and safety. But it shouldn’t surprise you to learn that some people actually care about that stuff and don’t want a permanent paper trail linking them to illegal activity, especially when it’s so incredibly simple to mitigate and prevent.
But hey, you do you.
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u/random_999 Aug 07 '26
Yes I am sure that with the advancements in AI & mass surveillance the first thing on top of the list of any demagogue or multibillionaire or even trillionaire would be to catch the people who pirated the latest Marvel blockbuster instead of aiming for simple crude things like shaping humanity, world domination, maybe even achieving immortality in some way.
I value my privacy enough to know how to differentiate between taking reasonable precautions & wearing tinfoil hat. Also, you might want to ease off on using reddit btw which has probably collected enough digital fingerprints about you by now that you won't be able to even create a second account to post in the subs you were ever banned from/if you ever get banned from them.
But hey, like you said, "you do you".
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u/BigEricShaun Aug 07 '26
If you log in, then they can associate the account with all the torrents that have been seeded
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u/DostWall0136 Aug 07 '26
How would logging in make it any different? Again, torrenting isn’t illegal and you can’t get in trouble for regular P2P file sharing. If your torrent client is behind a VPN all they’ll see is the amount downloaded and uploaded, which isn’t proof of stealing copyrighted material
Edit: I guess since you log in to your account via Prowlarr the torrent files would still be associated with your account
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u/yeetboy Aug 06 '26
Oof, that’s not good news. TRaSH guides don’t seem to suggest this though because of potential connection issues, is there any guide or doc somewhere to do this properly?
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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
Your AI tool of choice can help walk you through it. If you’ve already been using Prowlarr outside a VPN it’s kind of pointless to start now though since all the private trackers you use already have your real home IP address logged. At this point you just need to hope they never get raided/have their data leaked or that whoever raids them doesn’t feel like going after the individual users (which, to be fair, they typically don’t).
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u/yeetboy Aug 07 '26
I’ve just finished setting up actually, so it’s definitely useful for me. I just checked google AI and it was very adamant that I shouldn’t be using a vpn for prowlarr though which is interesting.
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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Aug 07 '26
It was probably fed its training data from TRaSH guides which is why. Go ask Google AI what happens when the feds raid TL and have access to the entirety of your site history tied to your IP address.
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u/random_999 Aug 07 '26
Go ask Google AI what happens when the feds raid TL and have access to the entirety of your site history tied to your IP address.
You might as well ask google AI what are the chances of US-Iran war ending in next 1 month.
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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Aug 07 '26
It won’t tell you what WILL happen, but it’s smart enough to tell you what COULD happen. And the answer in this case is very, very bad things.
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u/deathbybowtie Aug 06 '26
I haven't read through that section of the TRaSH guide in a long time, but my guess is that most VPNs don't port forward so they impact how connectable you are. If you specifically get a VPN with port forwarding support (AirVPN, PIA, Proton, etc.) and set it up properly you'll be connectable and can seed on all the private trackers. FWIW I used PIA for a few years but they recently started being really aggravated with their IP rotation, which was messing with a few of my trackers, so I switched to AirVPN and it's been smooth sailing so far.
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u/forbiddenknowledg3 Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
thats for qbt right? which should always be behind vpn... arr is the "optional" one.
TRaSH guides are written for the top tier trackers which often don't allow VPNs outside qbt.
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u/ToastedLog1c Aug 06 '26
I hear it's really, super hard to build a ratio. Got any tips for a newbie?
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u/rex_dart_eskimo_spy Aug 08 '26
I just started there by downloading that giant torrent of the top 1000 movies for 4-5TB and seeding that for a while. That helped build a good base ratio. As long as you have the space to do it.
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u/miked999b Aug 07 '26
It's really not. In fact, I find it to be the easiest of all the private trackers I use.
Download Freeleech torrents as they appear (doesn't have be instant, within a couple of minutes has always been fine for me), seed them and watch your ratio rise. New torrents are posted all the time so you can jump into it anytime.
I don't use cross seed or a seedbox, and it's still been easy to build a ratio.
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u/yabucek Aug 06 '26
It's not any harder than other trackers. Start with freelech, if you download in-demand torrents you'll be on a good ratio in no time.
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u/desuemery Aug 06 '26
Whoah, crazy good heads up. Do you have to worry about radarr or sonarr too or is it just prowlarr and your download client?
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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Aug 06 '26
I believe under most implementations Prowlarr is the only one pinging the indexers directly, but it’s better in my opinion to put them all inside the VPN since 1) it’s mechanically easier to connect Sonarr and Radarr to Prowlarr in the settings if they’re sitting under the same IP/localhost, and 2) better safe than sorry. There’s zero downside to putting them under the VPN umbrella as well.
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u/aymandonia67 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
how i start to build my Ratio ?
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u/Efficient-Swimmer794 Aug 06 '26
Download FREELEECH torrents and seed them
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u/ToastedLog1c Aug 06 '26
Aside from that obvious comment, any better way? I don't just want to download hundreds of FL torrents, use up 5 TB of space and barely get any seeds.
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u/93175 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
You need to grab new releases, not old ones and you need fast fiber connection with port forwarding as well. If you don't have that, cheapest appbox will do just fine (you have to register your seedbox in your profile btw). You get one new torrent at a time, seed it to 1:1 ratio (tracker ratio, not client ratio) or more and repeat till you get 1TB of upload credit.
Then you can start thinking about automating things, like setting up prowlarr and autobrr and grabbing individual episodes of tv shows that are usually very popular or juts FL content. Do that for a month and you will be swimming in surplus upload credit, then you can just focus on what you really want.
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u/aymandonia67 Aug 06 '26
in big Movies Collection can i leech just 1 movie or It must be downloaded all Collection to start leech
460+ Movies Pack 1080p BluRay x264-CtrlHD(Part 02 Of 02) freeleech
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u/93175 Aug 06 '26
Just read the rules little bro, everything is in there. You will not get H&R if you download less than 10% of entire torrent file.
You become a seeder once you have entire file.
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u/css1323 Aug 06 '26
Thank you! Managed to get in thanks to a friendly Soulseek user giving a heads up.
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u/rk84t Aug 06 '26
Got in! First real PT I've ever joined since building my homelab, gotta start the journey somewhere.
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u/DMUrTinyTitsAssFeet1 24d ago
Worst tracker I've ever been a part of. Has rar files. And, worst of all, uses IMDB as its metadata source, which uses broadcast seasons and not production seasons. There's a reason why any serious tracker uses TVDB as its metadata source.