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Re:BitTorrent Site Magnet Database Archives Available via To... by colinmhayes on Sunday May 22, 2022 @05:53AM (#31466490)
I don't think it's the ISP monitoring for torrent traffic, but copyright holders honeypotting torrents and keeping track of the IP of seeders, maybe leechers too I guess. If the IP holder isn't on the tracker they don't see that you're pirating their stuff.
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Re:BitTorrent Site Magnet Database Archives Available via To... by brnt on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:33PM (#31469975)
Whoever is sniffing, is surely sniffing DHT too, right? I would not count on all private trackers users disabling that.
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Re:BitTorrent Site Magnet Database Archives Available via To... by doublepg23 on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @12:35AM (#31500647)
Private tracker's "business model" as it were relies on a central tracker tracking the download and upload ratio of your client. They explicitly disable DHT as it misses the point of the economy.
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