Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers

(kianbradley.com)

655 points k-ian | 3 comments | 17 Jun 25 17:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

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diggan ◴[17 Jun 25 18:17 UTC] No.44302108[source]▶

> Is this legal?

Why wouldn't it be? You're not actually hosting a tracker in this case, only looking at incoming connections. And even if you do run a tracker, hard to make the case that the tracker itself is illega. Hosting something like opentrackr is like hosting a search engine, how they respond to legal takedown requests is where the crux is at, and whatever infra sits around the tracker, so police and courts can see/assume the intent. But trackers are pretty stupid coordination server software, would be crazy if they became illegal.

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jedberg ◴[17 Jun 25 18:20 UTC] No.44302134[source]▶

>>44302108 #

Do you think the police understand this nuance? Especially since most of the traffic that will go through there is probably copyright infringement?

They'll just see tracker and assume it's illegal.

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1. hungryhobbit ◴[17 Jun 25 18:30 UTC] No.44302254[source]▶

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Do you think the police are actually policing the internet?

Even if you didn't mean your local police, and meant a national body like the FBI, the truth is they focus on other crimes (eg. child abuse), and even then they are woefully unable to handle even most of those crimes.

The vast, vast majority of copyright enforcement comes from copyright holders ... not the internet copyright police.

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2. jedberg ◴[17 Jun 25 18:34 UTC] No.44302296[source]▶

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Of course not. But first a copyright holder tells the police, and then the police enforce it.

The police rarely find crimes on their own -- they are almost always acting on a request from someone else.