The private tracker cabal is a cabal consisting of three main private trackers, private trackers being torrent sites who require registration to enter. These cabal sites are said to hold power and influence over all cabal-affiliated private trackers.
The cabal consists of the following three trackers:
They are called the cabal due to their high standing in the private tracker sphere.
They also function as a cartel, due to their nature of sharing user information among each other, as well as with cabal-affiliated sites (GGn, RED, AB), in cases where the user in question has broken any golden rules. Being banned on one cabal site for such a violation usually results in getting banned on all cabal and cabal-affiliated sites.
The golden rule violations are typically related to invite selling and trading.
The 'cabal' is an unofficial private tracker term and should not be used in conversations on private tracker forums, IRC channels, or staff PMs.