Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested

Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by dsacco on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @08:23PM (#12133642)

You just described what.cd.

What.cd open sourced Gazelle, the source code for the website and tracker. The core development team accepts pull requests, but they are themselves insulated from the owner and operator of what.cd.

Since opening Gazelle, many other private trackers have adopted it.

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Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by ac29 on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @08:52PM (#12133767)

Yes, the code is open, but the state of the what.cd tracker and website is not. If they were taken down, the service would cease to exist.

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Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by SSLy on Thursday July 21, 2016 @02:02AM (#12135059)

I doubt. In the recent thread linked on the homepage you can read they have quite contingency measures in place. If some government seized all production wcd servers tomorrow, I believe it would be running back after a few days.

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Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by mburns on Thursday July 21, 2016 @01:57AM (#12135043)

Things like IPFS[0] address this problem.

[0] https://ipfs.io/

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