It is exactly the equivalent of excellent hubs except that you don't have to have a share amount in the beginning, you have to seed to stay alive. In the end we reach the same outcome :)
Try to get an invite on swebits ;)
I find private torrent trackers to be much better than DC++. especially at the fast speeds we have in Sweden. Last I experienced was downloading 5 movies at the same time each loading at around 1.2 Mbits/sec