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All around the internet, groups of media fans are hunting for and curating some of the best movie, music, and TV collections anywhere. And they're doing it all via BitTorrent. Verge contributor and Lowpass writer Janko Roettgers takes us into the world of private torrent trackers, where some people are saving culture and some people are just in it for the flicks.

0:00 Torrents Return

01:20 Private Trackers Explained

04:04 Rules Ratios And Leechers

05:56 The Prestige Ladder

10:00 Bounties And Salinger

12:55 Piracy Ethics Today

17:16 Streaming Backlash

19:45 What Private Really Means

22:12 Anti Piracy Crackdowns

25:44 Why People Do It

27:14 Is BitTorrent Growing

28:45 Curation Beats Algorithms

31:51 Enough Phone Kickstarter

33:50 Phone Prices

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