March 28, 2009 by sharky
If you’re an invite trader, you may find yourself on the business end of the banhammer on popular torrent forums and private trackers alike. Well known for being an invite trading forum - which doesn’t bode well with private trackers - Swedish-based torrentinvites.se staff and members now have a lot more to worry about with the recent alliance between certain torrent discussion boards and popular trackers - in a bold crackdown bid to oust traders from the scene.
Word on the bit-street is, a group of staunch "anti traders" have begun to ban members of torrentinvites.se on certain high-profile trackers, as well as on various torrent forums. We can’t tell you how the IPs were leaked, but TorrentInvites.se staff have already been banned from select forums, in addition to a well-known high level scene tracker, which is also expediting the process of having TI.se staff & traders globally banned from other trackers. Still think that trackers aren’t connected to each other? Think again - many are.
Here’s a warning message left on TI.se, in regards to trading:
Even Swedish trackers are getting in on the action; including SweDVDR, Softmupparna and PirateTorrents.se, which have begun to ban just about anyone connected with TI.se. There’s even talk of another high-profile Swedish tracker getting into the fray (who wishes to remain unidentified), by cutting out all traders.
Private trackers are used as currency
One negative connotation associated with trading can easily be summed up by the general consensus that it is, indeed, a form of currency. And since trackers are usually non-profit for the purpose of free information, invitations to them are not to be sold (aka. traded) in any way, shape or form.
Having said that, many trackers turn a blind eye to their invites being so freely swapped and handed out, as it’s a form of publicity that generates new members - new members who may eventually donate to the tracker, or become upstanding denizens. Other trackers, such as What.cd, x264.me & StC have aggressively tried to keep their invites out of such torrent forums - regardless of trade or giveaway.
Invite/account trading is wrong - period. We’ll update this post as it breaks.
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