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diggan ◴[] 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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1. leijurv ◴[] No.44302712[source]
OP did actually host a tracker.

"I then started the tracker. After about an hour, it peaked at about 1.7 million distinct torrents across 3.1 million peers!"