OpenBitTorrent – An Open Tracker Project

Re:OpenBitTorrent – An Open Tracker Project by word-reader on Sunday July 28, 2019 @10:41PM (#20551138)

Countdown to the domain being seized. You'd think there would be some alternative to DNS by now for the pirate crowd.

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Re:OpenBitTorrent – An Open Tracker Project by throwaway9d0291 on Monday July 29, 2019 @03:26AM (#20552213)

It's been around for 10 years and doesn't distribute anything you don't find elsewhere, I don't think it's going anywhere.

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Re:OpenBitTorrent – An Open Tracker Project by ohithereyou on Monday July 29, 2019 @12:21AM (#20551488)

BitTorrent does not require trackers. You can make trackerless torrents that use DHT for peers.

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Re:OpenBitTorrent – An Open Tracker Project by windoze on Monday July 29, 2019 @01:56AM (#20551833)

DHT does have a few DNS based bootstrap servers.

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Re:OpenBitTorrent – An Open Tracker Project by zaarn on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:23AM (#20551938)

They can be operated by anyone, most Torrent software lets you set the bootstrap servers, rtorrent only requires connecting to a node that knows a bootstrap server.

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Re:OpenBitTorrent – An Open Tracker Project by stock_toaster on Monday July 29, 2019 @01:08AM (#20551667)

And magnet links so you don't even need to download a .torrent anymore either.

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Re:OpenBitTorrent – An Open Tracker Project by benbristow on Monday July 29, 2019 @04:06AM (#20552450)

There's OpenNIC but nobody really uses it.

https://www.opennic.org/

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