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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers

(kianbradley.com)
655 points k-ian | 2 comments | 17 Jun 25 17:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.426s | source
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zaik ◴[17 Jun 25 18:49 UTC] No.44302484[source]▶
I wonder how many anti-torrent groups are doing this covertly.
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sweeter ◴[17 Jun 25 19:19 UTC] No.44302837[source]▶
Definitely a few. Media companies often send out infringement notices to ISPs to be forwarded to the user and I would guess this is how they get those IPs
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1. mdaniel ◴[17 Jun 25 19:33 UTC] No.44302966[source]▶
My understanding is that mere swarm membership is sufficient, no need to host anything

That's my understanding of why private trackers ban folks who upload private .torrent files to public trackers because the infohash is a rendezvous point of private and public consumers via DHT

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2. accrual ◴[17 Jun 25 20:06 UTC] No.44303356[source]▶
It's kind of like walking into a room of people with full or partial copies of a copyrighted pie, but there's one person in the corner (the copyright holder or someone on their behalf) taking notes of everyone who comes and asks for a slice.