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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers

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655 points k-ian | 1 comments | 17 Jun 25 17:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.235s | source
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aidenn0 ◴[17 Jun 25 18:43 UTC] No.44302408[source]▶
IANAL, but my understanding is that running a content-neutral tracker is legal in the US.

In other jurisdictions it most certainly is not, and the VPS maybe in a different jurisdiction and the .si TLD definitely is.

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jrochkind1 ◴[17 Jun 25 20:16 UTC] No.44303463[source]▶
Googling, there's been at least one tracker shut down by US law enforcement, EliteTorrents [2005] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-26-fi-torre...

I think there have probably been more. There are definitely more that had civil suits with MPAA etc suing for damages.

It may be somewhat harder to make the case in the US, but a tracker where a great majority of what's listed is copyrighted, I'm pretty sure it can be shut down in the US.

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NoMoreNicksLeft ◴[17 Jun 25 21:38 UTC] No.44304234[source]▶
Was that the actual tracker and tracker only, or was there a web front end that hosted all the torrent files and forums and so forth? Because the latter will make you a big target.

God I miss rarbg. And KAT.

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1. komali2 ◴[18 Jun 25 02:06 UTC] No.44306033[source]▶
A lot of the best torrents are now on private trackers in my experience. I'm not clear why, but observing the communities involved, members seem to take great pride in e.g. well formatted e-books, well organized audiobook files, creating different resolutions and compression rate variations of a movie or tv show, and I suppose want to keep those in the community?