trackers which do not accept donations!

I wanted to make sure that people did not stop donating to good, honest trackers as a result of backlash against pay-to-leech sites.

It may be interesting to some that certain sites do not accept donations. However, people need to be aware of the differences between non-profit, not-for-profit, and for-profit based trackers. Only the for-profit is our enemy.

Threads like this need to also educate the community on where we draw the line. Good sites that are asking us to help them meet their basic expenses deserve our support. It is only fair to help them meet these expenses.
 
I don't get why people ask about reasons for not requesting money. Filesharing is about fair and equal treatment for users to access resources other users want to share FOR FREE !

Nor docs.torrents.ro (known as Docspedia now), nor tv.torrents.ro (known as Freshon.TV) have ever been advertising anything or offered donation system for a simple reason: we are doing just fine with our own resources and we don't need extra money.

We don't want to be conditioned for advertising something or to offer advantages to some users who can afford it, discriminating the ones who cannot, just for a couple of euros. Every member has the same privileges and should respect the fair sharing principles. Would this concept be the same if we stress the members to click stupid adds or if some users can overpass the fair ratio system by donating? I strongly believe our statement is more powerful if we are independent of any other third party will.

The docs/tvt/tro team is made of people who are willing to give something from their own pocket to keep the sites working and after all the investment isn't a fortune at all. We've bought our own servers, but we've found locations with internet connection where to collocate them for free, and we're just spending our free time to maintain the sites as our own will, without considering it an activity from which to get money out of it ! Everything is done out of passion and not out of any material interest.
 
megabyteme said:
I wanted to make sure that people did not stop donating to good, honest trackers as a result of backlash against pay-to-leech sites.

It may be interesting to some that certain sites do not accept donations. However, people need to be aware of the differences between non-profit, not-for-profit, and for-profit based trackers. Only the for-profit is our enemy.

Threads like this need to also educate the community on where we draw the line. Good sites that are asking us to help them meet their basic expenses deserve our support. It is only fair to help them meet these expenses.
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http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/faq/114-211/14-87

the *practical* legal definition (as established by the wise and beneficient people at the IRS) does make a distinction.

"Not-for-profit" refers to an activity, for example, a hobby (like fishing).

"Nonprofit" refers to an organization established for purposes other than profit-making. Note here that nonprofit does not necessarily mean "charitable."

Also note that the use of the term "non-profit" with the dash in between the letters. There is no implied or distinctive definition attached to this word (as far as I know). I have noticed the use of this term to introduce concepts
or explain technical aspects of organization when an audience is *not* familiar with nonprofit operations.

My reference is the Great Wizard of Legal Stuff: Bruce Hopkins, author of the Nonprofit Legal Dictionary and other works.
 
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