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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers

(kianbradley.com)
655 points k-ian | 1 comments | 17 Jun 25 17:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | 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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1. alex_duf ◴[18 Jun 25 07:45 UTC] No.44307550[source]▶
Interestingly they put the infohash of the show in the URL. So one can use that website to pick which show to download just by using the hash + DHT

Edit: Nope I'm wrong, different type of hash it seems...