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Re:Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler,... by KoftaBob on Thursday October 05, 2023 @09:59AM (#37778730)
Based on my understanding of how the torrent DHT works, all that’s happening is that youre requesting metadata on various torrent info hashes, but that’s not the same thing as actually downloading/seeding the content in the torrent itself.
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Re:Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler,... by no_time on Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:04AM (#37779532)
>but that’s not the same thing as actually downloading/seeding the content in the torrent itself.

The question is whether Law Enforcement and "Intellectual Property" watchdogs make a meaningful distinction between the two in their monitoring tools.

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Re:Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler,... by justinclift on Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:09AM (#37779603)
Seeing as they get so much other stuff wrong, it's highly likely they don't care.
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