Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers

Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by Noelia- on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @02:48AM (#44307266)

I used to think those old trackers were long dead, but it’s wild to see them still pulling in millions of peers. P2P may have faded from the spotlight, but the infrastructure never really went away.

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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by noobermin on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @03:16AM (#44307401)

I guess...the question is...who? Surely people have to pay to keep these peers just running. 3.1 million is how many millions of dollars in infra per month? I guess it's distributed amongst millions or thousands of people, sure, or may be most of them are bots.

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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by Nemo_bis on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @04:53AM (#44307999)

It only takes 17000 bittorrent users with 100-200 old torrents each in their clients to get here:

> it peaked at about 1.7 million distinct torrents across 3.1 million peers

Most people don't regularly prune their torrent library.

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