I think what we have to do is to go 100% torrents, also make the site private and invitation only, including the tracker.
Also we need to have a ratio or a minimum seed-time system as there will be less users.
I am a member of some private trackers and they are running smoothly, will incredible speeds, some are even ratio free, just seed back 48 hrs.
Sounds like a hand made darknet version. Maybe
Freenet has not a good usability, but I think that this way is also somehow complicated. In that case I would prefer a system which is more similar to a real
Darknet. A real darknet is always private (this is the main point of the system) and you also only can enter it by invitation (means
sharing keys). Maybe there will be Darknet application one day that is as secure as Freenet, but as easy to use like
JDownloader,
eMule or
BitTorrent.
I for myself love torrents because they don't require waiting time to download each part and all that business. However, you probably haven't realized that uploaders like to upload onto DDL sites to EARN MONEY, they have nothing to gain just uploading them to torrents. When I seed 1:1 or more, I feel I have contributed my part of the share. There used to be a private AO tracker, but I think that screwed up and AO gave up on it. Making this place private and invitation only doesn't help the case that the uploaders want money for providing their material (except for a couple of generous people who solely provide like Vitreous and guy). You say you are a member of some private trackers, I'd be really interested if they provided JI material...haha.
In my opinion it is not okay to download copyright material and everyone should be aware of this - regardless if he/she is doing it or not. But even want to earn money by doing it is the worst.
In my case I'm trying to seed 3:1 (sometimes it will be more as I didn't set-up any hard limit, but stop the seeding by hand). But I think everythink 1:1 or more is totally okay.
1 word: quality(even though there are a lot of not so great encodes out there)
Agree to that. Watching FLV movie on some streaming sites is okay if you want to have a peek. You don't have to wait hours for the download only to realise that the movie isn't what you had expected. But for really enjoying it I prefer a better quality.
By the way: This issues are not really related to the subject of this thread. Maybe someone can open another thread about alternatives to the file hosters and post a link here.