Thread: Trackers in which one can cross-seed safely

I would like all member as TI to contribute and share their experiences in cross seeding across various trackers.

Please list all the tracker you have cross-seeded and have not got banned, warned or caught

I have cross-seeded TV shows across these trackers



IPT
TL
Torrent-Damage
Speed.cd
Bitsoup
Demonoid

in most cases for scene release there is a very high chance of cross-seeding as the rar files dont change.

What does changes is that most trackers include a text file which says from which tracker it has been downloaded.

To know how i cross seed please read these 2 posts by me

http://www.torrent-invites.com/tutor...tml#post450900

http://www.torrent-invites.com/tutor...tml#post451712

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Warning:-
Cross-Seeding can be caught and i am not responsible if you get caught !

well i ve crosseded on waffles and got banned :( so i wouldnt reccomend it on waffles (maybe i did someting wrong - i dunno for sure ).
I crosseed on revtt , tl , pretome and ipt because i m new to those trackers and want my ratio up and never had any problems.

wow i thought cross-seeding was allowed at every tracker? why would any of them forbid it, dont they want as many users as possible seeding files?

Hi,
I cross seed between TL/BG/PTM/IPT/RevTT. No problem for the moment.
I remove specific files (nfo...) that are not common between the trackers.

Originally Posted by Mr_Plow

wow i thought cross-seeding was allowed at every tracker? why would any of them forbid it, dont they want as many users as possible seeding files?

@Mr Plow - Cross Seeding is not allowed on all tracker as it frowned upon by most trackers as it goes against their foundation of being a "Closed Private Tracker" and also because one reads carefully in every FAQ (most trackers have the ditto same one with very little or no change at all) it is mentioned that if one uploads their torrents to another tracker they are likely to be banned .

Originally Posted by acela

well i ve crosseded on waffles and got banned

@acela - i think this is what probably must have happened with you @ waffles.

Since cross-seeding is as good as uploading a torrent on another tracker without downloading it from them and not being on their upload team

Originally Posted by Youri36

Hi,
I cross seed between TL/BG/PTM/IPT/RevTT. No problem for the moment.
I remove specific files (nfo...) that are not common between the trackers.

@youri - I agree with that if one removes the .nfo files of the various trackers then cross-seeding is no problem at all cause after all we are dealing with scene releases and the releases are meant to be mirror copies down to the individual CRC's of the individual RAR files.

But in my case i actually keep the tracker specific nfo files because in this case because when the announce is made i get a status=completed instead of a status=started (which would be the case if some files were missing or incomplete or not downloaded). Because the tracker gets a status=completed announce it knows I am a seeder and I am awarded the seeding bonuses which many trackers posses

I'm curious as to which sites don't allow cross-seeding. I've been doing something similar for as long as I can remember. I'll usually grab what I can from usenet and if I want to build a bit of buffer somewhere I'll keep the rars and seed them. You just have to make sure that when you grab the torrent it doesn't add the tracker to an existing torrent.

As for the "do not upload our torrents elsewhere" bit, I think that they are referring to the actual .torrent files themselves as that would reveal their tracker and your passkey. Unless, of course, they are referring to content created on behalf of the site as opposed to the 99% (in most cases) of content stolen from the scene.

But in my case i actually keep the tracker specific nfo files because in this case because when the announce is made i get a status=completed instead of a status=started (which would be the case if some files were missing or incomplete or not downloaded). Because the tracker gets a status=completed announce it knows I am a seeder and I am awarded the seeding bonuses which many trackers posses

Thanks Ascariboy. How do you deal with such files different for each tracker ?
Have you look at this thread ?

@roger09 - I think the trackers on which one cant are

Waffles - Acela's Experience (Read above post no 3)

ScL - Since they keep a track of how much one has uploaded, downloaded and has been seeding back for.