Break out your drumsticks, it’s our 7th Birthday! During the year, we passed over 1.5 million unique releases on Redacted. This wouldn’t be possible without you, our amazing users. As such we’d like to do something special to round out this year. To kick off our Birthday Celebration, torrents with 3 or fewer seeds have been marked freeload. After meticulous analysis and careful consideration, Staff has also selected an additional set of torrents we know you’re going to love. To clear up confusion, the seed count of the latter category was irrelevant to the selection. All these torrents will be freeload through the end of the year (Ending January 6th 23:59 UTC). As a reminder, all freeload torrents can be found here, and users who were seeding such torrents within the last week will still receive credit for their upload during the event.

Freeload Tweaks:

Earlier this month, in preparation for this event, we deployed a tracker change to prioritize freeload seeders. Now, when you start downloading a freeload torrent, we serve a modified peerlist that only includes the seeders who were present before this announcement. This custom peerlist is only served in response to your client’s initial announce. Once you have snatched the torrent or 10 minutes have elapsed, your client will receive the full peerlist. If the freeloaded seeders aren’t connectable and time is of the essence, force re-announcing the torrent will cause the tracker to immediately serve you the complete peerlist. No changes to your client are required to enable this functionality; it is managed entirely by the tracker.

Freeload definition:

Freeload behaves like Freeleech for those who were already seeding before the event, and Neutralleech for anyone who downloads it during the event. It reverts to normal for everyone when the event ends.