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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
So I was uh, downloading some linux isos, like usual. It was going slowly, so I opened up the Trackers tab in qBittorrent and saw the following:
We have an alternative, called Mainline DHT, which performs a more decentralized lookup of peers based on infohash alone. Follow the readme to compile, first the dependency libowfat(a GPL reimplementation of some of dan bernstein ’s C libraries) and then opentracker itself. The legal decisions against websites like The Pirate Bay hinge on how they highlight popular movies, sell ads, and offer .torrent files.
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