If we look back for the past 15 years, we think the MOST ever requested feature on site was Freeleech. To be fair, it’s more challenging and difficult than it sounds! Its not as simple as press a button to make everything Freeleech. We have observed lots of private trackers over the years that they implemented the Freeleech idea, but in the end it was doing more bad than good. Reason? Because most people get the FREE part of the Freeleech and they think“oh well, its free so why to seed it back?”.

That was our challenge also.

After lots of tests and thoughts and redesigns and calculations, we believe that we finally found a way to overcome this problem, and make Freeleech viable on TL as well! We put several checks in place to make sure that everyone plays fair, with the main concern untouched : MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS PROPERLY SEEDED for the years to come! Enough talking though, lets go straight to the point :slight_smile:

As you most probably already noticed, there is a new tag in lot of torrents, named FREELEECH plus a Freeleech tag :slight_smile: So what really changed?

Freeleech on TL means that download a torrent tagged as FreeLeech will not count towards your downloaded data amount. So if you download a torrent your ratio will not be negatively affected. Seeding, however, will accrue the normal amount of data (so upload 1GB get 1GB added to your upload).

FreeLeech torrents are marked with a special FreeLeech tag:

• All boxsets and packs will be marked FreeLeech
• Any torrent above 8GB will be FreeLeech, regardless of category

You need to be in V2 (latest version) in order to see the FreeLeech tags. Torrents that are FreeLeech remain freeleech on older versions of course, but you won't be able to distinguish them.

ALL torrents including FreeLeech are required to be seeded to a 1:1 ratio OR for the required amount of hours for your user class! Failing to do so will charge you with 1(one) Hit and Run torrent, read more about our Hit and Run system here.