I don’t know why you’re getting pushback on this, what you’re saying is 100% correct. I spent around a decade just using Usenet and not bothering with torrents. Then I got into one highly sought after private tracker. I spent several months not downloading a thing except freeleech to create a buffer, which was going absolutely nowhere. Then recently I decided to test out this seedbox thing I’d heard so much about. I set it up to automatically download freeleech torrents the second they’re posted. Even with that setup I discovered that I still can’t get a 1:1 ratio. A bot that downloads the freeleech torrent the instant it’s posted still only achieves a 0.5 ratio. It’s madness. I was manually downloading freeleech torrents that I found interesting, and was literally getting a 0 ratio by doing that. Now I know why. This system encourages everyone to buy seedboxes, which then makes it impossible for regular Joe shmoes to use private trackers, unless they signed up back in 2013 or something