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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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