a Little Something on the Buffoonery of Private Torrent Trackers
If you scour the internet for torrent trackers that specialize in certain things you will find that there are sites that are very strict about certain things. One is the privacy of the web community in which there is a process of interviews and invites. Commonly, these invites are to not be sold. Some communities are so paranoid about the selling of invites that if they see that an invitee is referred to the community by a website that sells invites-- which is what commonly shows up in search engine results-- they will deny this person entry. It would be like the US Government sending me to Gitmo because I liked a video by Al Jazeera that covered Sumo Wrestling. Why? Oh, because Al Jazeera traded invites-- I mean, broadcasted on behalf of Al Qaeda. But aside from this there is another ignorance sheer ignorance regarding the enforcement of invites.
If you ask a person who favors copyright to the point of litigating anywhere he can he may consider that creating and distributing digital copies of something-- no matter how much profit or not was made by the distributor-- is equivalent to stealing. They may guilt trip on the notion that they worked so hard on this copyrighted work that it's unjust for anyone distribute digital copies for free or otherwise.
What kind of argument would a private volunteer distributor of digital copies say if you traded or sold invites? They may say that they worked so hard on maintaining a good torrent community that it's unjust for anyone to distribute invites for free or otherwise.
Isn't this amazing? This is why there will be no reform in intellectual property because the people who organize on a large scale the distribution of infringed works are of the same mindset of the people they infringe works from.
Both pirate and copyright advocate are trying to enforce something that is unenforceable. Both are trying to build a fence around something that isn't grounded there at the gate keepers wishes. Also, both have nothing to worry about when it comes to their so-called hard work. Many of these trackers are supported by donations. If I sold invites.. guess what? Now I have money to donate to this tracker. You may say that isn't in my best interest-- but it is! How am I gonna keep making hella bank on these people if the number of invites increases to the point where the server cannot support itself anymore? But even then it doesn't matter. Trackers will just do as wikipedia and have fund raising campaigns. So, what the hell? It's like a musician who makes far more money touring and making appearance and doing actual hard work but still pissing and moaning over lost nickels from royalties or commission on new CD orders. They're both fretting over something that is going to happen regardless despite what opportunities and payoffs are still abundantly available.
It doesn't matter to them. This mindset is fundamentally short sided. To the copyright litigation busybodies who declare file sharing to be an immoral anti-social thing that must be quashed-- I agree, but only when the sharers are a similar type of jackal as the busy litigator.