So I was thinking that if there are private torrent sites (invite only/ratio/etc.) why not have a private warez forum?
It would be nice because it would increase the quality of the site and uploads and build more of a community around the site. What do you think?
I disagree that the principle would work for forums, unless you had allot of exclusive content, why would someone come to you, and have to get an invite, and work there ass off, when thye can go to warez-bb or any one of the number of public forums and get the same file with no effort.
One of the main reasons private trackers work is it is percieved safer because moddified trackers, only x number of members can access so less likely to be anti piracy companies etc, becuase your ip address is publicly facing, e.g. you can pull all seeders/peers from a torrent client, and log who downloaded what, however with forums none of this is an issue becuase your ip is not broadcast to the public, lets take warez bb, you find a linux post, you download a linux file from rapidshare, the only 2 people who get your ip in this transaction is warez-bb in the access logs assuming you dont post, (i doubt they check it) and rapidshare (in download logs but they appearently dont log what file you download, so at best all they have is an access log of a file url, which again i doubt they check, either way just by vising the url doesnt prove you downloaded it)....
Therefore there is only two weak points, so aslong as you dont go to a forum or file host run by an anti piracy company then your ip address is at no point on offer.
This is ofcource downloaders only, uploaders rapidshare has the ip of accounts and knows which account uploaded what and theoretically could hand over your ip address to an anti piracy company, but a private forum would not mitigate this particularly.
Therefore it is my opinion that a private forum = fail, unless you have exclusive content.
