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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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