May 31, 2016, 10:55 am
(This post was last modified: Jun 01, 2016, 05:37 am by connor17. Edited 1 time in total.)
Monetization implies a change, "charging fees for something that used to be free, or attempting to make money on goods or services that were previously unprofitable", a commercialization of something previously non-commercial.
It needs to create a demand for something, and then to create an artificial scarcity of it, in which you have control of the product.
It's like diamonds. They are just small rocks, but their price is huge. There was a marketing campaign by De Beers that created the demand. Then you control the trade system ("they stockpiled diamonds and sold them strategically to control price"), creating an artificial scarcity.
Private trackers are systems that work like that.
You inject bandwidth into the system. The more users, the more bandwidth. And then is established a ratio system.
Ratio system automatically generates an excess of bandwidth. If someone uploads more than what he downloads, other people must be in the reverse situation. In order to avoid punishment due to lack of seeding, users inject more bandwidth, what only makes the problem bigger. This "broken-by-design" system generates an artificial scarcity of ... ratio. Torrents are overseeded, ratio is scarce.
The excess of bandwidth would collapse the system right away, so they use "freeleech" to purge the excess.
Having control over users ratio and freeleech they control the trade system. VIP users (pay users) are "ratio-free". The less freeleech, the more excess of bandwidth, the more scarcity of ratio.
This way there are "harder" trackers than others, in which ratio is more expensive.
So freeleech is not just a gift from the awesome and generous admins but a necessity to avoid a system collapse and to control the trade system.
"Ratio-proofs" are not to show how much you "care about sharing", but to show how much bandwidth can you inject in the system to make ratio valuable.
And all the "technics" about "how to improve your ratio" just show how pernicious and Kafkaesque all this nonsense is.
Filesharing have nothing to do with private trackers, in fact they are just a monetization of filesharing, something that's against the essence of sharing.
It needs to create a demand for something, and then to create an artificial scarcity of it, in which you have control of the product.
It's like diamonds. They are just small rocks, but their price is huge. There was a marketing campaign by De Beers that created the demand. Then you control the trade system ("they stockpiled diamonds and sold them strategically to control price"), creating an artificial scarcity.
Private trackers are systems that work like that.
You inject bandwidth into the system. The more users, the more bandwidth. And then is established a ratio system.
Ratio system automatically generates an excess of bandwidth. If someone uploads more than what he downloads, other people must be in the reverse situation. In order to avoid punishment due to lack of seeding, users inject more bandwidth, what only makes the problem bigger. This "broken-by-design" system generates an artificial scarcity of ... ratio. Torrents are overseeded, ratio is scarce.
The excess of bandwidth would collapse the system right away, so they use "freeleech" to purge the excess.
Having control over users ratio and freeleech they control the trade system. VIP users (pay users) are "ratio-free". The less freeleech, the more excess of bandwidth, the more scarcity of ratio.
This way there are "harder" trackers than others, in which ratio is more expensive.
So freeleech is not just a gift from the awesome and generous admins but a necessity to avoid a system collapse and to control the trade system.
"Ratio-proofs" are not to show how much you "care about sharing", but to show how much bandwidth can you inject in the system to make ratio valuable.
And all the "technics" about "how to improve your ratio" just show how pernicious and Kafkaesque all this nonsense is.
Filesharing have nothing to do with private trackers, in fact they are just a monetization of filesharing, something that's against the essence of sharing.
