Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio...
by banana_giraffe on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @10:22PM
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DHT doesn't support a keyword query. btdigg likely worked by looking for some large percentage of all DHT traffic and using BitTorrent to grab metadata of each torrent and running queries against a local database. Others could do it, but it requires bandwidth and time.
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