• alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    I agree.

    Ideally, there are two types of profiles:

    Archivalists who have a lot of storage and need pretty good uptime, but no need for high bandwidth. They should be rewarded for archiving, because they don’t really get a lot of upload credit.

    Distributors who need low storage, high bandwidth, robust connections when online, but not necessarily high uptime. They just distribute the new and popular stuff.

    I think the better private trackers recognize this and have systems in place to provide credit to people who seed rare torrents.