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Re:Show HN: Torrenthistory – an open and legal torrent indexer by baldgeek on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:20AM (#26358556)
not sure what definition of "legal" they are using. I clicked Catalog, then 70, then 80, and found lots of "interesting" titles
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Re:Show HN: Torrenthistory – an open and legal torrent indexer by mikewhy on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:14PM (#26360828)
> This site and all information on it is legal. There are no:

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> - files

> - links to files

> - torrent files / info hashes

> - magnet links

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> You cannot find them anywhere - neither on the site, nor in its source code, nor in the database backups, which are published here.

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> You cannot download anything from here (really). There are just folder names, file names and their sizes (+some other metadata).

(HN's formatting is seriously bad)

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Re:Show HN: Torrenthistory – an open and legal torrent indexer by retonato on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:33PM (#26361051)
That's right, you can see torrent names and file names, your can search through them, but you cannot download anything. There are neither torrent files or infohashes there.
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