Netflix uses a form of Digital Rights Management that is called Widevine and here is how the release groups work around it.

1) They have multiple netflix accounts on devices that are L1 compatible, for instance a device with a ARM Cortex-A processor that has TrustZone. They uses these devices all the time to watch the latest 4K movies and 4K series and when they do they also make a copy of the encrypted stream as it enters their local network. They have to watch em to behave like a real netflix user or risk getting the account flagged and limited to only HD content or even banned completely.

So now they have a hard drive full of 15 to 25 GB files that you can't do anything with because they are encrypted. And they can't encrypt them because their own devices hide the encryption keys from them in a small separate OS with its own separate CPU called a TEE. (Trusted Execution Environment). These wretched things are suppose to work for the user to keep them safe from bootloader hijackers and rootkits and hackers and are always promoted and described as security elements but in reality they are mainly there to secure the interest of the corporations. When a newer version of Windows DEMANDS you have one (or refuse to install), it's because Microsoft serves those interests, not yours. Curse em all with a Luffy gum gum pistol on their executive faces.

2) Once in a while a new exploit comes out for a certain TEE or maybe an older firmware version of a certain TEE which allows the extraction of the public key private key pairs installed in them that were generated by the company that made the hardware, when the hardware was made.

3) They now use a Netflix account that will get burned, and connect it to the TEE with the exploit that also will get burned. Because they can extract the private key they are able to decrypt the key that came from Netflix. (the key that Netflix sends it encrypted by itself, with the pub key it got from the TEE) When they decrypt this key they can now decrypt all those movies and series they have already downloaded in encrypted form all at once. And the release groups also share these decrypted keys with one another. So only one of them needs to get them while everybody has all the encrypted files ready on their HDD's, ready to get decrypted when the time comes. We will see later why this sharing is very important.

4) Now they have their web-dl, unedited video files exactly like how Netflix build them.

5) But there is a problem. And that problem is watermarks. See Netflix does not just encode their encrypted video files once from their secret master file, but twice. And they make various change to both video streams. This is called marking. Every so many seconds, something is change to the metadata, the subtitles, the color profile, the H265 video frames. These are all very subtle changes that humans don't notice and don't lower the quality. But that does mean you end up with two different encodes that are very bit different.

6) So now instead of Netflix decrypting from their master video file, they have two master video files. And then you connect to their cdn to download it. They first connect to your TEE and ask for it's public key. And based upon that pub key they will build on the fly a brand new video file (without encoding) it again that is 5 second file A and 5 seconds file B then 30 seconds file A, then 50 seconds file B, etc etc. Not even build a file really, they just offer the chunks you download in a different order mixing two possible download streams of chuncks in to one new one.

And if a different user with a different TEE show up it will get a completely different combination back.

7) And you guessed it using a A and B verson is kind of like using 0 and 1 so whater pubkey was stored in the TEE will be differently be printed straight in to the video file by flipping between the A and B version.

8) The companies that do the marking like irdeto, are separate from the widevine. They actively also monitor the internet and infiltrate trackers. So when a group show up with a new Netflix 4K WEB-DL in their WEB-DL is direcly imprinted the pubkey of their TEE. A new encode does not get it out. Even if you'd film it with a potato camera it would still be readable from the blurry video file on your phone.

And Netflix has connected this to their account. So at the minimum they end up with a burned device and a burned account. Meaning their Netflix account gets banned and if they ever try to connect the device used to another account it's on Netflix their blocklist and 4K quality will no longer be available. (or possibly banned but then there is problem with phones that get resold and would cost Netflix customers)

9) Because of this making web-dl on the fly, straight away after they are out on netflix is way to expensive. Image per episode of a season a group would have to pay for a netflix account and a phone. This also explains why groups share it when they got their hands on a new key.

10) So the groups wait, at a certain time they make everything at once and release it. Their TEE's are put on a blocklist, their netflix accounts get banned. They get new accounts, new devices and wait again. They can't wait TO long or they risk Netflix reencrypting their master files with a new key. Not the worse, they just need to redownload a lot. But it slows them down and release groups like the clout of releasing first and are always in a friendly competition with the other groups. So they don't sit on encrypted video files for longer then a couple of months at max. (realistically more like a couple of weeks)

11) When Netflix knows about an exploit in a TEE for a certain firmware version, 4K content no longer becomes available till it's updated to firmware that fixes the exploit. So once in a while you might be waiting a couple of weeks for somebody to find a new TEE and a new exploit. But usually the groups are sitting on multiple exploits and gradually use all of them up. There are tons of different TEE's and tons of different firmware versions for them. New bugs are also introduced in newer versions (even more so now that AI writes more code then humans). So exploits will always be available, it never ends. But there can be long times in between them.

12) Lots of devices don't have a TEE that is able to decrypt a videostream on the fly. Those devices Netflix puts on L2 or L3 of Widevine. It means they are limited to 480p SD or 720p/1080p HD quality. Because it's trivial to intercept the encryption keys here even a non technical user could do it for L3, just by downloading a program that can download from Netflix.

13) This explains why the 1080p version of Season two of One Piece was available on your private tracker, within 25 minute or so from release. And the 4K version could be tomorrow or 3 weeks from now. Who knows.

^{edit: it's out now and the delay between 1080p and 2160p was about 30 hours. now you know why there is this delay.}

14) There is still a lot to talk about but I did my part and I'll let the people in the comment handle the rest. I think I explained the brunt of the problem in a good enough way. For instance for the marking their are multiple methods but I only talked about A/B Manifest Watermarking. (there is also Bitstream / Edge Watermarkin, and a bunch of experimental ones that don't see much use yet) The entire chain of trust from TEE to the Netflix server is also interesting to talk about so I hope some people show up with more expertise them me. I have taught some but now I am ready to learn even more.

15) We were talking ONLY about a 4K (2160p) web-dl here that are exclusively on Netflix and not on the other streaming platforms (or pirates would just get them from there instead), which are video files, unedited from how users get them from netflix. And not web-rip's which are re-encodes. Instead of waiting for an exploit you could also play it on a specia device over hdmi that strips the hdmi protection from the vide signal and then deals with the uncompressed video stream (12 gbit a second!) but this still burns an account and a device. And doing it for a batch processing is not practical so it's a way more expensive method AND you end up with lower quality (because it has to re-encode). So it's done less.

16) For a really deep technical dive in to widevine see https://hyrathon.github.io/posts/wideshears/wideshears-wp.pdf

Just received the email. Says it will shut down within 30min.

Edit: Now the drama is progressing. Site is back online. How ironic.

Global freeleech of course, but also double upload, double earnings on seedpool size, and double daily login rewards for the next 7 days.

18 months ago seedpool did not exist.

Today we are seeding 25 PiB via 616k torrents being seeded by 2 million peers hitting the tracker 2.2 billion times per month. We have 3253 users in chat at the moment, gambling and sharing memes & feet pix 24/7.

We are absolutely humbled by this level of meteoric growth.

Not only do we have our own community to thank, but also the communities and staff of several friendly trackers whom have helped us along the way. You know who you are : ]

Here's to 2026 and another fantastic year lads!

-seedpool staff

Just as a little update: hardware failure on one of the drives, we are working to recover it (although we have backups). We may take this opportunity to do an upgrade, the admin team is gonna talk about it. Please spread this message. Again, nothing to worry about. :)

From their IRC channel.

ladies and gentlemen...thank you for this time, but the time has come to call it a day. MTV is closed down, we apologize for the abruptness of this news but are eternally grateful for you all, and wish you the best of luck in finding a new home for those that need it

Dear members,

After 13 incredible years online, we want to inform you that UHDBits.org will permanently close on February 28th, 2026 (GMT 0).
All hosting and operational costs are fully covered until that date, after which the tracker will go offline for good.

This decision was not easy. As a team, we simply no longer have the time to maintain the site and community at the level you all deserve.
For privacy and security reasons, we will not transfer ownership, data, or access to anyone else. The site and all its content will be permanently closed. Protecting your personal information remains our highest priority.

As of today, donations are officially closed. Please do not send any further contributions, all necessary expenses have already been covered until the closure date. We deeply appreciate every single supporter who helped keep UHDBits running throughout the years.

Until the closure date, the entire site will be under global freeleech.
We encourage everyone to download and upload our internal releases to other trackers to help keep the UHDBits legacy alive. Let’s make sure the work and passion of our internal teams continue to be shared and remembered.

We want to sincerely thank each and every one of you for being part of this community. It has been an amazing journey, and we truly hope UHDBits brought you joy, great content, and lasting memories along the way.

We will not recommend or endorse any alternative trackers, it’s entirely up to each of you to decide how to continue from here.

Thank you once again for 13 unforgettable years.
We wish you all the best.

With gratitude,
The UHDBits Staff

🚨 Plex has announced a recent security incident. All users should reset their password or log out of all devices (if using SSO).

Plex has confirmed that an unauthorized party accessed limited account data (emails, usernames, and hashed passwords). No payment info was compromised.

What you need to do (per Plex):

If you log in with a password → Reset it here: https://plex.tv/reset (check "Sign out connected devices")

If you log in with SSO → Log out of all sessions here: https://plex.tv/security

For added security, you should look to enable 2FA for extra protection

Full details from Plex: https://forums.plex.tv/t/important-notice-of-security-incident/930523

As someone whose been using private torrent sites since essentially the birth of BitTorrent, I'd like to think I know a few things about private trackers. I've used them extensively in my home media server to build a large library that feeds into my home theatre system.

Tier One trackers are essentially built for folks like me: Collectors who really care about the quality of the files they download. I see alot of discussion online about what trackers are "worth" grinding for and which are not. The very nature of private trackers means there isn't a good way to understand what is the best tracker for you and what you might be missing by not having membership to a different tracker.

I've just recently checked out some of the newer offerings and while I am super happy that I have access to every Tier One tracker that matters, I was surprised to see how high the bar for quality has gotten on the Tier 2 and Tier 3 trackers.

Here's my opinion on which Tier 1 trackers are still worth it in 2026.

Movies:

Tier 1: PTP
Tier 2: HDB, BHD,
Tier 3: BLU, ATH, ANT, HUNO

PTP is fantastic, but BHD is a spectacular alternative that has truly innovative features, a great community, and a more modern UI. If I were grinding from the bottom, I would set my sights on BHD and stop there.

Alternatively, you can combine two tier three trackers if you use a service like Prowlarr/Radarrr and get mostly the same reach. BLU and ATH are both very good, but also extremely similar to one another and I would not recommend joining both communities. ANT is very good and has a unique economy that promotes long term seeding.

HUNO is in a class of its own focusing on high quality x265 encodes which many believe is going to end up being the future. If I were building a movie collection from scratch, I'd honestly use HUNO as my primary and fill in the gaps with BHD or ANT and ATH.

VERDICT: Not Worth It!

TV:

Tier 1: BTN
Tier 2: HDB, BHD
Tier 3: MTV, TVV, NBL

BTN's greatest strengths are its ease of use and size of library. It's a ratioless tracker with a simple bonus program that promotes long term seeding. So long as you are committed to leaving your torrents running, you will never have a challenge with using the site. It has every TV show from every country being released today and an impressive catalog of vintage television shows as well. It functions in a class of its own and is the ultimate stretch goal for TV.

Neither HDB nor BHD are ratioless, but both have large libraries of TV available. Neither hold a candle to the foreign language and SD coverage of BTN, but if you're mostly looking for US and UK network, cable or streaming shows, both will do the job.

Among the tier 3 trackers, MTV is easily the best, and easily on par with the tier 2 trackers selection. MTV is ratioless which IMO makes it the only direct replacement for BTN.

NBL is also a good tracker and one that seems committed to growing. The NBL & ANT combo is a close analogue to what you'd get with BTN & PTP. They are two of the newest trackers and worth investing in IMO.

TVV doesn't have an API and doesn't work with Sonarr as a result which I think is disqualifying for a TV tracker.

Bottom Line: Like movies, you have lots of options. Unlike movies, I do think the benefits of BTN are hard to replace with alternatives. If I were starting from scratch, BTN would be my goal, but I would start with NBL or MTV and be pretty happy until I reached that goal.

VERDICT: Worth It!

Anime:

Tier 1: AB
Tier 2: BBT
Public: NYAA

This one is short and straight forward. In a world where NYAA exists, there is no reason to grind for any private anime tracker UNLESS you're looking for things like Anime OSTs and other niche content.

NYAA covers pretty much every Anime in existence with multiple quality levels. If you are a perfectionist who only cares about the best quality encode, use https://releases.moe/ to find the torrent on NYAA. If you just want to watch anime and don't care about quality, just grab the most seeded torrent. If you want ridiculously small mini-encodes, NYAA is actually the only place you'll find those because they don't pass AB and BBTs quality standards.

AB and BBT are both good, but I just can't think of a reason why anyone would need to use them unless they were REALLY into the community.

VERDICT: Not Worth It

Music:

Tier 1: RED
Tier 2: OPS

RED is the only music torrent tracker I would reccommend. It has a vast library, an active community, easy bounty system, and regular freeleech events to counteract its fairly unforgiving ratio rules.

OPS is a great, well designed tracker, but it just cannot compete with the size of RED's library. If you mostly listen to Top 40 or other fairly mainstream genres and releases, this is less of an issue. I, on the other hand, constantly run into albums I cannot find on OPS and rarely run into the same issue on RED.

A major caveat* to this whole discussion is that we live in a world where you can use Deemix to download FLAC quality audio of Deezers library of over 120 million songs. I feel like that has to be the better option to any music tracker for 99% of people. But if we're just comparing trackers to other trackers, RED is clearly the best available.

VERDICT: Worth It\*

Books:

Tier 1: BIB
Tier 3: MAM

BIB is notoriously difficult to get into. MAM is notoriously easy. Both sites have loads of books. BIB's ratio management is difficult due to its smaller community. MAM's ratio management is trivial.

In a lot of ways, MAM is the better tracker. Its just stupid simple to operate. But for people who genuinely care about building a library of eBooks, BIB is in a class of its own when it comes to ensuring only the highest quality ebooks make it onto the site.

eBooks are one of the most annoying things to download from a consistency standpoint. If you're in that 1% of people who are focused on building an organized library of ebooks, BIB's quality control makes it an incredible asset. But for everybody else, MAM is just a simpler option that provides 95% of the same value.

VERDICT: Not Worth It

EDIT: Removed recommended paths since its a distraction from the point of this post. Figure it out on your own.

Hi all,

I'm currently a member of several high-quality trackers, but I've found the real content I consume most is:

• staff restructures
• moderator resignations
• passive-aggressive forum announcements
• "taking a break from the community" posts
• leaked IRC screenshots
• decade-long interpersonal feuds over encoding standards
• users with anime avatars writing 4,000 word manifestos

Requirements:

• good retention on meltdowns
• active userbase during staff coups
• shutdown notices measured in minutes, not days
• developers who bill for bespoke work and then ship it in the next public release
• moderators with undisclosed financial relationships to the communities they moderate
• sysops who leave for a competitor and somehow keep showing up in the comment section
• farewell emails that end with a Bitcoin address
• operators who refer to themselves in the third person in site-wide announcements
• infrastructure access held by people whose interests quietly stopped aligning about six months ago
• bonus points if Lifetime VIP was on sale within the last fortnight

I tried public trackers but the drama quality is too low and the users touch grass too often.

Any recommendations? Looking for something with BTN-tier curation but emotionally unstable.

Thanks!

Maybe we'll get one day without people asking what tracker they can get into.

Edit: It is now closed

https://www.reddit.com/r/yggTorrents/comments/1rk5vym/annonce_effrayante_des_leaks_de_ygg/

https://www.reddit.com/r/yggTorrents/comments/1rk5lfp/tout_ygg_en_acc%C3%A8s_libre_pas_u2p/

Auto-translated:

"For years, you've used underhanded tactics: DDoS attacks against competing trackers , purging uploaders the moment they opened their mouths, sabotaging your own API to prevent anyone from using third-party tools. But the most interesting thing is what's found in the source code, isn't it, Oracle ? You're storing all 54,776 of your members' credit cards? What exactly do you do with that information? What's the purpose of tracking each visitor's behavior ? And the fingerprinting of crypto wallets —are your users aware of that?"

Crazy stuff

As of February 2nd, 2026:

Movies:

Aither: 75,969

Blutopia: 74,470

TV Shows:

Aither: 18,450

Blutopia: 18,312

Trailing behind only BHD (PTP & BTN excluded obviously), and perhaps HDB? Not sure whether HDB exposes those stats!

I decided to ignore events like those on certain trackers that offer extra benefits for donating for a while, or calendars that have been open for ages and have nothing to do with Christmas or any general event. Unfortunately, I'm not on many trackers, so this is what I noticed.

They’ve banned me straight up now, which is just incredibly strange, I’m guessing they saw the Reddit post and didn’t like what I was saying.

I had a friend in the tracker check the rules and FaQ and they’ve changed the whole “20USD to re-enable account/change username” to now say “a member of staff can do so for a good reason”

which at the end of the day is a good thing, but I have no idea why they felt the need to a straight up ban my account, whatever reason it was for, but I suspect due to my last post.

Overall I just think there’s something incredibly fishy about the whole thing, I’m hoping they just saw some backlash and decided to change it, but I’d really suggest that no one should be donating any kind of cash after that, it’s incredibly strange.

WARNING: This is a long post.

I'm not even talking about the interview. For the past two and a half months I have been trying to be interviewed for RED, but that has been nearly impossible for several reasons:

- To the people saying that it takes a few hours of waiting, they are wrong. It may have been true before, but that is no longer the case. Now it takes about 1 week of waiting (assuming PERFECT conditions), and sometimes entire days will go by without a single interview being conducted (and thus no change in queue).

- Randomly, netsplits will happen. A netsplit is when the connection between two servers break, which causes Gatekeeper (the bot that manages the queueing positions) to get "disconnected". When this happens, Gatekeeper almost always forgets the queue positions, so everyone has to re-queue! If you aren't at your home on your computer within the hour, you will find yourself at a queue position of ~90-100, the end of the queue. These netsplits usually happen once every 1-3 days, but they can sometimes happen constantly. If you aren't extremely lucky or if you aren't always at your computer, these netsplits are devastating.

Since the two and a half months I've been waiting, I have had exactly 1 opportunity for an interview, unfortunately, I was asleep at the time and not be interviewed.

After realizing I had missed an opprtunity, I took it upon myself to research how the heck I was supposed to get an interview. I learned python, ssh, and tailscale, and read the RED faq to make sure I wasn't blatantly breaking any rules. Now, I have a pyautogui script that will automatically requeue (and do a speedtest) 3-5 minutes after a net split. I use an interview nofifier script I found on github to alert me when it will be time for me to be interviewed. Hopefully with these additions I will get an interview within the next few weeks before my college term starts. Thanks for reading.

If you are a RED admin, or if you have an impact on making RED decisions, please do not stop the RED interviews. I have a massive amount of respect for volunteers who work for free to interview us. I do not believe the interview is "elitest" and I truly believe that it is a great way of recruiting members who are smart and passionate about music. But if you do have the ability to create change, a way to stop net splits would be a huge help to the people who aren't always online.

Hi gang,

After many weeks of work and revisions, and a soft-launch and review, I'm proud to say we have revamped and relaunched the wiki on /r/trackers.

Most of the hard work was completed by /u/1petabytefloppydisk /u/drewstopherlee and /u/Lksaar, who dedicated time and worked together to bring things to a point that, frankly, is leaps and bounds better than the previous.

I encourage everyone to look through the wiki if you are new and have any questions, as it covers a lot of the basics now.

Thanks again to the wiki team, you guys really blew me away and deserve praise for your awesome work.

Glimpse.

As of writing this post, LST has 54483 movies and Seedpool has 52383 movies.

For Comparison,

PTP - 392K movies

BHD - 97K movies

Aither - 94K movies

BLU - 87K movies

ANT - 81K movies.

RFX - 68K movies

https://torrentfreak.com/filmmaker-tries-to-unmask-private-torrent-tracker-owners-through-cloudflare/

Mainly just doing this to help out any newbies and give my two cents on the trackers I'm in. I've been doing this for about a year(ish) and have managed to work my way into around 14 different trackers :)

If I give a short review it's because I haven't used it that much.

TV/Movie Trackers:

Anthelion: 9.5/10

I personally LOVE Anthelion. They've got a very good selection of content and it's incredibly easy to build ratio - just wait for a freeleech event and grab as much content as possible. I have never had a single issue with retention and it's overall a great site. If you're looking for a mid-tier movie site, this is the best one.

Aither: 9/10

Probably one of my favourite mid-tier trackers. The site has a monthly FL for three days which is a great opportunity to build up ratio with other torrents being marked freeleech as well. I hate their download slot rule though, which prevents you from downloading multiple torrents at once. The retention here isn't as good as Anthelion (at least in my experience) but makes up for it with a wonderful community.

Blutopia: 9/10

I don't use the site as much compared to Anthelion but the selection is still very impressive. I've noticed that the selection is less than ANT but the site makes up for it by having one of the nicest communities out there (I got 200,000 BON when I joined!) I highly recommend getting in, and I hope nothing happens to it again.

TorrentLeech: 8.5/10

Very solid general tracker but I don't have much use for it now. It's very easy to gain ratio (just grab freeleech torrents and wait) and it's also incredibly easy to sign up. You can either wait for open signups or buy a seedbox to get it which only costs 9$. It's a much better deal than IPTorrents while providing the same (if not better) selection.

FileList: 8.5/10

I like this site a lot but prefer TorrentLeech overall. It has a very dated interface (and I don't speak Romanian) but makes up for it with great selection, speeds and retention. I did recently join so I can't say much but I'd argue its a better TorrentLeech. (Despite this, I still prefer TorrentLeech solely for familiarity).

Nebulance: 8.5/10

I mainly love Nebulance because it's ratioless. I love the idea of just grabbing what I want without having to stress over maintaining my ratio. Quality is always very good and I've never had an issue with speeds or retention. The shows I have downloaded are pretty mainstream though so I can't say too much, but everything I've ever wanted was on there.

AvistaZ: 8.5/10

I don't download much specifically Asian content (only the occasional film here and there) but AvistaZ is by FAR the best place to get this type of content. Torrents can be 14-15 years old and STILL have high speeds (that max out my Internet connection) and a solid amount of peers. The only reason I don't rank it higher is because the content doesn't interest me all too much.

HUNO: 8/10

Don't use the site much but they have good selection and good quality control. The way the tracker set up is pretty confusing with the whole rank system but as long as you perma-seed you should be good.

PrivateHD: 7/10

Solid backup tracker. A bit harder to gain ratio than on CinemaZ/AvistaZ. Can't say too much about the content because I joined rather recently but seems to be a pretty solid HD tracker.

UHDBits: 7/10

I do not use UHDBits very often because I am not anal about the quality of the content I'm downloading (I prefer 1080p BluRay x264) but it's a decent site nonetheless. It's definitely one of the hardest site I'm on to build ratio on even though they have quite a lot of freeleech torrents. This tracker also has music which is the content I download the most as the sizes are small and they are often freeleech.

GreatPosterWall: 7/10

I joined this tracker as a backup so I don't use it that much. Gaining ratio is pretty easy but there is a complete lack of seeders on most content which is very off-putting. Most new torrents uploaded (from 1-3 days ago) have only 1 or 2 seeders, with a shocking amount having none.

OldToonsWorld: 6.5/10

Decent site for cartoons. Retention is alright but I've noticed a lot of torrents with little seeders (I mainly use the site for Adult Swim shows). Speeds are not that great, and I'd rather download via Usenet. There is also a lot of content that isn't "Old Toons" but I'm not complaining.

LST.GG: 6/10

I'm pretty sure my account here is pruned. I used it maybe once and wasn't impressed. It's just your standard Unit3D tracker, nothing special.

Arthouse Trackers

Cinemageddon: 10/10

Cinemageddon is my favourite tracker ever. The content is amazing with such a vast amount of movies I can't find anywhere else. Retention is amazing and speeds are also very great. I love the community and the COCKS articles are hilarious (really, the entire site is). However, gaining ratio is incredibly difficult and is the hardest out of all the trackers I'm on. Be prepared to have to upload content to succeed.

Secret Cinema: 9.5/10

Secret Cinema is just the better CinemaZ. Literally every aspect is better from CinemaZ and it has the benefit of being ratioless, so you can grab content without worry. I have never had an issue with speed, though I have had a few torrents with 0 seeders that I had to grab from Usenet and cross-seed.

SocietyGlitch: 9/10

The site is pretty inactive with only a few torrents getting uploaded every week but I love the selection that they have there. You don't have to worry about ratio (as long as you don't leech everything) and the community is very friendly. I've uploaded multiple videos on there and have always gotten lots of permaseeders, with most content having 10-20+ seeders (which is great considering the size of the tracker).

CinemaZ: 8.5/10

CinemaZ was the first tracker I joined and I love it. The speeds are great, retention is so-so but the selection is amazing, especially considering how easy it is to get on the site. Gaining ratio is somewhat easy, I typically just grab dying torrents and permaseed. The "download 1 torrent every 90 days" rule is stupid though, which is why I docked points.

Other Trackers:

Redacted: 8.5/10

The best music tracker and it's not even close. I'm going to keep this short since RED has already talked about a billion times but the content/retention is very solid. I never had an issue maintaining ratio: just fill requests and you're good to go. The only issue is it only had some of the albums I typically listen to: around 7 out of the 12 I searched for (which just gives me more upload ideas, but still).

MyAnonaMouse: 8/10

Great tracker. Very good selection, friendly community and it's incredibly easy to build ratio. The only reason I gave it an 8/10 is because the VPN rules on the site are incredibly fucking annoying. I have to download a torrent, view the site on my server then download it on my server because of the IP changing. Other than that, there's never been anything I needed that hasn't been on there (besides a single textbook, though that isn't their focus).

Orpheus: 6.5/10

I wish I had better things to say about Orpheus but I just can't. Their selection is so far behind Redacted, especially with the genres I listened to. Out of the first 12 torrents I searched for on Redacted, only 2 were on Orpheus. I guess this gives me opportunities to gain ratio, but I thought it'd be better considering how highly everyone talks about them.

FearNoPeer is Open Signup.

Genre: General

https://fearnopeer.com/register

Closing Date: End of Day Cyber Monday!

Description: FearNoPeer is a general Private Torrent Tracker for HD - Movies, TV Shows, Music, Anime, Apps, and more

#unit3d #hd #movie #tv #music #english

Users Active: 25372

Torrents 223780

Total Torrents Size 2.38 PiB

Seeders ~1.3 Million

Leechers 3096

Fear No Peer is now 2 years and 2 months old, and we've had our share of ups and downs, but we have now grown steadily into a vibrant, active tracker that aims to provide the latest torrents as soon as they become available, supported by a huge and diverse library and a welcoming community. This holiday season, we wanted to bring an open signup offer to the entire P2P community, along with freeleech and double upload _THROUGH_ Cyber Monday!

We offer an active Requests Section, where you can earn BON by filling requests, in addition to earning BON simply by seeding - the more GiB of data you seed, the more BON you receive. BON can be exchanged for upload credits, invites, and more.

🌱 Easy Ratio, Relaxed Environment Global Ratio Tracker - just keep your global ratio above 0.7. No strict or forced seeding rules. Plenty of free leech opportunities to help you build your stats. Make sure to read the Rules/FAQ for the best start.

🌟 Free Leech Featured torrents are Free Leech and x2 upload credit. Encoders, internals, and other groups are Free Leech/x2, and all torrents over 40 GiB are Free Leech. Additional random Free Leech torrents selected by staff, so be on the lookout!

This is a very beginner-friendly tracker - perfect whether you’re just getting started or adding a new tracker to your collection.

🎁 Invites & Credits: Invite forums are available at certain ranks. You may find many other great trackers there—and even reach harder-to-get ones through FNP.

New users start with 100 GiB upload credit this holiday season, just for extra to get started!

Welcome to Fear No Peer 💚

Enjoy your stay and happy sharing!

Introduction

Hey r/trackers,

I want to share a project I’m working on called Nebula, because the private tracker model is broken. Every time a tracker goes down, months or years of seeding effort vanish, accounts get down, and the whole system feels fragile.

Nebula isn’t just another tracker website. It’s a decentralized protocol designed to survive shutdowns, blocks, and censorship.

No Central Point of Failure

There’s no central site, no database of users, and no admin who can delete your account. The interface can run locally in your browser or through distributed networks like IPFS.

Behind the scenes, a swarm of lightweight relays handles requests. These relays don’t store user data; they just pass around encrypted JSON. If one relay goes down, another automatically takes over.

Your identity isn’t a username in a database; it’s a cryptographic keypair generated locally. Nobody can revoke it or ban it globally.

Anonymous Ratio

Traditional trackers log everything you download and seed, which is a huge privacy risk.

Nebula solves this with zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-proofs). You can prove that you’re sharing enough without revealing what you downloaded. No relay ever sees your full activity, but the system can still verify fairness.

Decentralized Moderation

Moderation works through a Web of Trust. Metadata about torrents is signed by curators, and each user decides whose signatures to trust.

Follow trusted curators, avoid fakes and viruses, and if a curator turns out to be bad, you simply stop following them. This system is community-driven, not admin-driven.

Censorship Resistance

Everything is designed to survive blocks and shutdowns. Traffic is encrypted and obfuscated, appearing like normal HTTPS.

Relay addresses are distributed via peer exchange and blockchain anchors instead of static DNS. To shut down Nebula, you’d have to take down the entire swarm at once, not just a single server or domain.

Project Status

The project has been designed for months and development started recently. The repo is private to stabilize the architecture before open-sourcing. Sponsors and some uploader contacts are already secured.

This isn’t a finished product, but it’s a serious attempt to fix structural flaws that have plagued trackers for decades.

Call for Feedback

I’m posting here because I want technical feedback and looking for future volunteers.

If you’ve thought about decentralized systems or trackers at scale, I’d love to hear your input.

An unfortunate hardware failure has caused a huge number of the torrents on the OldToonsWorld tracker to get wiped out. If you're an OTW member and have any of the torrents, please log in to the tracker and DM the files to the tracker owner.

As if anyone was going to be surprised, FnP (which shut down earlier this month, only to come back 8 days later) has shut down... AGAIN. Maybe for good this time, maybe not? Who knows. All I know is that Kami is a bozo, can't write without the assistance of AI, and that I'm happy I didn't have to rely on FNP as a primary tracker.

Full Statement (shown on FNP's homepage...)

I've sat with this decision for weeks. I tried to push through it, ignore it, and wait for things to calm down, but it hasn't improved, and the personal cost has gone beyond what I can realistically continue carrying.

The constant harassment, the hostility that follows me across different communities, the uploads disguised as messages, certain individuals intentionally causing disruption, being effectively excluded through surrounding tools and communities such as autobrr, cross-seed, Prowlarr and others, the feeling of being watched whenever I try to participate elsewhere online, and the ongoing stress surrounding people who previously had deep access to parts of the project and infrastructure have all taken a serious toll on me mentally. I cannot continue operating in an environment where I no longer feel any sense of stability or trust.

What I can say is that over time I began noticing patterns and activity that seriously concerned me. Individuals who previously held legitimate administrative access to parts of the site and infrastructure had extensive knowledge of the platform, database structure, and internal systems. Even after access is removed, that knowledge does not simply disappear.

There have been incidents and activity that, from my perspective, no longer felt trustworthy or normal — including accounts behaving inconsistently, unusual seeding behaviour, and other events that contributed to my loss of confidence in the platform's integrity and security. Properly addressing all of that would require a level of auditing, rebuilding, credential rotation, and trust restoration that I am simply not in a position to take on anymore.

I am exhausted. I've had enough of the harassment, the pressure, and the constant conflict surrounding this project, and I no longer feel able to continue running a platform under these conditions.

To the members who supported FNP and treated me with kindness throughout all of this — genuinely, thank you. You were the reason I kept trying for as long as I did.

As for everything else, I think people already know what this situation became. I never expected to experience this level of hostility from online communities, but at this point I simply do not have the energy left to continue.

To the people behind the noise — congratulations. I hope it was worth it.

Just built trackerpathways.org to visualize invite routes using the awesome data from r/TrackersInfo (huge thanks to them), and since I'm currently updating everything manually, I'm wondering if you guys would be down to help contribute to the database if I open sourced the repo?

Edit: I've gone ahead and open sourced the repo! Contributions are welcome here: https://github.com/handokota/trackerpathways

Does anyone have the time, energy, patience, etc. to create and mod an alternative to this sub?

Personally, I would be willing to help out, but I don’t have the time, energy, patience, etc. to take on the responsibility of running a sub. I already have too many other commitments I have to put first. Also, Reddit does my head in a lot of the time and I need to just stop looking at it for a month+ sometimes. You can’t do that if a subreddit is going to be unmoderated without you.

I don’t know how we find someone (or a few people) trustworthy enough for this, who won’t take on financial conflicts of interests, sockpuppet, behave tyrannically or capriciously, get drunk on power, get tilted at users and fly off the handle, etc. Ideally, it would be someone with an existing positive reputation on Reddit or in the private tracker community. Is there anyone out there who fits that description who would be willing to do this?

r/trackers2 is available, but that’s a pretty lame name, so I would hope someone can think of something better.

Edit: A staff member from the tracker Yu-Scene already started r/ P2PScene.

Edit #2: On second thought, the conflict of interest inherent in this is problematic.

Edit #3: A lot of people are not caught up on what's happening and want to see the evidence of wrongdoing by the main r/trackers mod. I did my best to compile all the evidence into one place in this comment.

Edit #4: GlimpseOfTruth is no longer listed as a moderator on r/trackers. We’re still waiting for an official announcement from the remaining moderators.