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I would not want to neither deal with security issues nor pay the data costs associated with some an app being able to connecting to my phone to download media
What if not everyone had to be a seeder?
You rapidly end up with a freeloader issue.
not if you give benefits to seeder, just like private trackers
The trackers themselves are centralized. The .torrent file you download from a private tracker has a unique private ID tied to your account, which the torrent client advertises to the tracker when it phones home to the announce URL, alongside your leech/seed metadata.
Don't see how this is much different to today's way of doing things where pretty much everyone is a freeloader to the centralized server. The major benefit is that it doesn't have to be just one server anymore.