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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: 0.441s | 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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neckro23 ◴[17 Jun 25 19:56 UTC] No.44303245[source]▶
No tracker necessary, you can just use DHT: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/
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edude03 ◴[17 Jun 25 20:36 UTC] No.44303647[source]▶
huh, weirdly it has stuff I did download and stuff I didn't download within minutes of each other ... should I be worried?
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1. _factor ◴[18 Jun 25 00:48 UTC] No.44305594[source]▶
Many trackers will add dummy data to prevent profiling. There is no validation to claims. It’s nice to look at, but not reliable.
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2. ◴[18 Jun 25 09:30 UTC] No.44308199[source]▶