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I’m assuming you’ve never been a member of a private tracker then? They would boot you off in a heartbeat. And after this post, no one is going to want to send you an invite.
I seed 160 TB, but not over BitTorrent. I certainly don't need access to private trackers to find what I want, and I have even less interest in contributing to them since I think they are elitist. Information shouldn't be hidden behind an invitation. That's no better than a subscription or paywall in my book.
I agree information shouldn't be behind an invitation, but it does solve 3 important things:
I can't tell you the number of times I've downloaded something from a public source and it's been crap quality, or isn't even the thing I wanted to download. Sometimes the file is fine but it takes 3 weeks to download because it has one seeder with a 10kbps upload rate. That's a big "if" on if I can find it at all if it's something more obscure.
Until someone solves those 3 issues in another way, I don't see a better solution.