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Re:BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory by grawprog on Friday June 19, 2020 @02:37PM (#23577531)
This looks pretty awesome. Does it work with private trackers?
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Re:BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory by pxx on Friday June 19, 2020 @02:56PM (#23577742)
Err. Why would it not?

edit: more constructively, this seems to just use libtorrent in the backend, which supports the 'private' flag https://www.libtorrent.org/features.html . Though even if you didn't, it would still 'work' in the sense of being able to download chunks.

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Re:BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory by dewey on Friday June 19, 2020 @03:20PM (#23577961)
It also depends on which client ID it exposes and if that one is whitelisted on trackers. But that's not really a technology problem.
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Re:BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory by dcrn on Friday June 19, 2020 @03:49PM (#23578236)
That answer probably lies more so with the tracker's software and approved clients than this project's implementation.
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