July 24, 2009 by sharky
"Where did my invite come from?" You signed up for a private tracker using a valid email address, and got invited to a different one - out of the blue. Sounds cool? Think again. While the prospect of getting into a new tracker "no strings attached" may seem convenient, the scenario is actually quite scary: where did they get your email address from? Should you dismiss it as some some phishing scam designed to steal your name/password to use on your elite sites, or is your email address on a "for sale" list? Probably the latter.
HDahoy.org is just that; a new tracker startup that somehow unscrupulously obtained a list of email addresses in order to recruit new members during their ‘beta’ phase. Undoubtedly this "list" came from another private tracker, since it was received through a gmail account that I use only for trackers. Look at it this way: the only way you were invited to HDahoy is if you signed up at another one. The "other one" is the problem, since they ‘gave’ (ahem - sold) the database of email addresses to HDahoy. Just great. Marvelous.
Now we have two problems. One tracker is selling our email addresses, and another one is buying them. When JackSparrow - a co-sysop of HDahoy - was asked about where the invite came from, he replied:
…at the time we acquired the lists we were strongly discouraged from asking questions in a ‘take it or leave it’ fashion."
…in simpler terms, "we’re not telling". BlackBeard, an admin there, wrote this:
Whew! For a minute there, I thought I couldn’t trust them. Thanks for putting my mind to rest; a sense of security has now completely overwhelmed me.
HDahoy.org - Now Open to the Public
All things aside, HDahoy a new Gazelle tracker for all-things High Definition. There are currently 125 torrents and 2,300 members.
Signups have now been opened to the public - http://hdahoy.org/register.php “Registration is now open and will stay like this for two weeks, closing on the 6th of August”. Or, just keep checking your spam folder: Who knows? Someone might just send you an invitation.
PS: If you can figure out where your invite came from, don’t hesitate to comment. We’d love to hear about it, as would many tracker admins. Arrrgh!
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