> Someone explain to me why this wasn’t released to the public in the first place and I will stop “leaking” them.

In terms of blu-rays that aren't actually explicitly marked exclusive, I would say the general reason is bandwidth.

You post something privately, you'll likely seed out 1x or 2x and then the downloaders will seed to each other from there.
You post something publicly, you'll likely be seeding and seeding, people leaving left & right as they 100%, which isn't ideal for people with data caps on their seedboxes or just with their personal ISP at home if they seed from home.
(Or even those without data caps, but know if they garner too much traffic, their ISP will investigate)

Guess there's also the benefit of smaller crowd, if the uploader has a very slow connection. So guess would be less likely worry for having like 200 people jump on your torrent when you only got like 100 KB/s upload to your name and you just posted a 1TB BD Pack. (Seen this happen on here...)

Another thought that comes to mind is that you don't get requests much, I would say. Nyaa seems to always make requests, plenty of them, even if description says no requests. (See Lupin the Nerd's uploads for example. People still request left & right even after made clear was pissed and no longer doing requests...)

Lastly, a likely obvious one, is that some people legitimately can't do public. Downloading yet alone seeding publicly, and they get a warning from their ISP.

> All credits go to jdcox215 over at U2 for releasing this,

But in terms of those that are actually explicitly marked exclusive... well, that reasoning likely varies uploader to uploader, I'd say.
I never really cared, never asked before. But I'll try here, so my thoughts:

* Bandwidth, as mentioned above.
* Lack of interest due to high hit-and-run ratio, no interest in providing to people who won't help in providing, keeping the torrent flowing and fastly available for everyone.
* Lack of interest, only interested in providing so that some encodes can get made, and most encoders tend to have private access. Whether directly or indirectly. Don't care about people that want to watch via BDMV. People that want to watch could get the same or better quality from encodes. They don't need Untouched BDMV.
* Fear. I imagine there would be a fear from posting publicly, if they got the release much earlier than release day. There use to be a specific active USBD uploader that would always get theirs months early. Uploading publicly was not in their interest and I'd imagine that'd be why, undoubtedly.
* Adding on to previous point, the companies will be self-aware of early release, since it's publicly accessible. (Poses an issue when posting before release date. As this helps the company easily narrow down who it likely was, and I guess, ensure they no longer will get early shipment.)

And getting some other opinions (since as mentioned, this would vary uploader to uploader, so it's hard for a single person like myself to answer completely)

* There isn't really any archivalibility since people hit-and-run so much publicly.
(Adding onto their note here: I actually was downloading a BD that was only on Nyaa like 6 months ago, and got hung at 99%. Only just had a seed come back like a week ago. That's highly unlikely in private. If you want something, you can get it most likely. If it's dead, there'll be  request reseed button that notifies all ppl who downloaded to reseed and you'll get someone seeding most likely)
* Another reason (and probably what a lot of people here think is the only reason) Uploaders are the ones who made the purchase and they have the right to have whatever they want done with their rip. You're certainly most welcome to self purchase and upload here if you want people to have access to Dub BDs so much. More uploaders sharing, the better. 1 Uploader can only buy so much, series naturally get missed all the time. So more people buying, more series would get covered.

(An open statement/comment from someone)
I can a bit understand leaking from places with a paywall. But not from PTs
PTs have more etiquette about sharing stuff. More rules. More friendly community (if we skip dramas and P2L ones)
And they put more effort overall (to get into PTs, to seed stuff more in a long-term matter and 24/7 with a seedbox, to buy this damn content to upload after all)
(or to share their personal physical collections which they love and want to share with good people)
And of course I'm gonna be pissed off if it won't be seeded on Nyaa (for example) in long-term because leechers are too greedy to not let others download just because they downloaded and stop seeding.