[deanhills]

Interviews are for private trackers (torrent site) that doesn't allow anyone except their registered member to download their torrents. They have huge list of new and old torrent that you won't find on public tracker (torrent site) and many of them are exclusive to private trackers. If you want to get in (register for) a private tracker you will need to take a interview via their IRC. and if you pass then they will 'invite' you to register on their site (myanonamouse.net) for an example. Also another system is filling out an application and you get an invite (animebytes.tv) for example. qBitorrent is the same as utorrent without the ads

Thanks for the info @Karurin.  Interesting but at the same time makes sense that they would be this strict with their membership.  Probably a good way to go if one is opting for safety and security, but somehow I'd like to have anonymity too.  This feels a little like being too thorough with their information requests - I'd hate for all my details to end up in the database of a group of individuals I don't know.