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by baddox 3775 days ago
That's true, but private trackers have centralized costs and are often funded by donations or paid perks.
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You don't really need 100% uptime trackers, DHT lets you do peer to peer file discovery. There are trackerless torrents, the only problem being how you get the torrents in the first place, but all that takes is a magnet URI from the original uploader / creator somewhere.