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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by imaginenore on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:08AM (#12143054)
> The only difference of Wikipedia is that it doesn't contain that checksums

That's false. A typical magnet link looks like this:

    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:264886d841442158b3efc861bbfca5ef91d8f68b&dn=
    Mr.Robot.S02E01.720p.WEBRip.AAC2.0.H.264-KNiTTiNG%5Bettv%5D&tr=u
    dp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fz
    er0day.ch%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&tr=udp%3
    A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desy
    nc.com%3A6969
Notice all the tracker URLs.
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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by Retr0spectrum on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:21AM (#12143095)
Most torrent clients will work fine if you just give them the hash.
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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by imaginenore on Friday July 22, 2016 @11:08AM (#12143977)
Yes, but that's not my point. My point is these torrent sites have links, not just hashes.
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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by simbalion on Friday July 22, 2016 @09:19AM (#12143310)
You can't be arrested for telling someone the street address of a crack house. Why is this different?
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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by jpgvm on Friday July 22, 2016 @09:21AM (#12143320)
If your client is DHT enabled you often don't need the tracker list, just the content hash is sufficient.
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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by nxzero on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:26AM (#12143114)
The "btih" value is the checksum.
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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by urbanarson on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:15AM (#12143078)
Well look who's pirating now. Maybe someone should throw you in jail.
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