It’s worth it if you could benefit from having fast seeds or if you want to use Sonarr/Radarr with less failures/fake/bad media downloads.
For example, I use a VPS for my seedbox/media server. This makes it so that if I discover a movie/tv show that I’m interested in, I can add it to Sonarr and when it starts the torrent from the private tracker I’m guaranteed to have at least 5 multi-gigabit seeds so a 4k movie transfers in a few minutes. This makes it so that all movies and TV shows are essentially on-demand.
There are third party services (debrid) that give you a similar experience without having to deal with hosting issues or private trackers.
If you do decide to try, it’s not hard… they give you all of the material and it’s open notes. As long as you understand 1. You have some amount of time that you have to seed each torrent and you have a global ratio so seeding everything all the time is the best strategy and 2. Whatever domain specific knowledge to cover the site’s content… a movie site will make sure you know the difference between x264 and x265 and what an mkv file is and an audio site will want to make sure you know the difference between lossless and lossy encoding and the associated formats (FLAC, MP3, etc).
They’re mostly just checking that you’re a real person and not completely incompetent. If you’ve been using bittorrent for a while then you probably know most everything except the site specific rules on seeding and ratio.
It’s worth it if you could benefit from having fast seeds or if you want to use Sonarr/Radarr with less failures/fake/bad media downloads.
For example, I use a VPS for my seedbox/media server. This makes it so that if I discover a movie/tv show that I’m interested in, I can add it to Sonarr and when it starts the torrent from the private tracker I’m guaranteed to have at least 5 multi-gigabit seeds so a 4k movie transfers in a few minutes. This makes it so that all movies and TV shows are essentially on-demand.
There are third party services (debrid) that give you a similar experience without having to deal with hosting issues or private trackers.
If you do decide to try, it’s not hard… they give you all of the material and it’s open notes. As long as you understand 1. You have some amount of time that you have to seed each torrent and you have a global ratio so seeding everything all the time is the best strategy and 2. Whatever domain specific knowledge to cover the site’s content… a movie site will make sure you know the difference between x264 and x265 and what an mkv file is and an audio site will want to make sure you know the difference between lossless and lossy encoding and the associated formats (FLAC, MP3, etc).
They’re mostly just checking that you’re a real person and not completely incompetent. If you’ve been using bittorrent for a while then you probably know most everything except the site specific rules on seeding and ratio.
Give it a shot!