Pirate Bay has new, decentralized system - trackers abolished

[Cain]

This is kinda cool

http://thepiratebay.org/blog/175

You might have noticed all the new magnet icons everywhere?

These are "magnet links", a link that lets you download a torrent directly in your BitTorrent client, instead of your browser. Most clients supports this (uTorrent, Vuze, rtorrent, whatever) and will get the relevant torrent data over the DHT network.

And DHT? It's a de-centralized peer to peer network that all modern clients join by default, even if they are currently not downloading any torrents. DHT can help you find peers and metadata when you choose to start a torrent download.

(If you want to learn more about DHT this Torrentfreak article might be a good place to start)

You might also have noticed that the tracker has been down lately? And that the upload page don't recommend trackers anymore! The development of DHT has reached a stage where a tracker is no longer needed to use a torrent. DHT (combined with PEX) is highly effective in finding peers without the need for a centralized service. If you run uTorrent you might have noticed in the tracker tab of your torrents that the [Peer Exchange] (PEX) row is often reporting a lot more peers than the trackers you might have for that torrent. These peers all came to you without the use of a central tracker service! This is what we consider to be the future. Faster and more stability for the users because there is no central point to rely upon.

[LMNO]

So far, my biggest problem has been finding available seeds for the things I want to "preview"*. It took my at least 3 days to download the Kid Cudi album.












*After I download an item and listen/read it, I immediately delete it and then buy it in a store.  Of course.  Of course.

[Cain]

Naturally.  Personally, for more exotic downloads, I find Demonoid is far superior.  Or would be, if they hadn't nuked their database by accident.

Still, the innovation is fairly impressive.

[LMNO]

They accidentally the whole database?

[Cain]

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[LMNO]

 














Gawd, I love that shit.

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

Thank God they busted up TPB.

[Jasper]

There are people who rely on single tracker websites?  Even when there are labor-saving tools like scrapetorrent and torrent vortex?

Is there a good reason to do this?

[Triple Zero]

there's what how what now?

I don't quite follow you, I usually get my torrents from isohunt.com, but also when I get them from TPB, when I put them in uTorrent, I see it's connecting to several different trackers?

[Jasper]

scrapetorrent.com

hxxp://v0rtex.appspot.com/

Does all the work.  I thought this was common knowledge?

[Triple Zero]

oh they're torrent meta search engines. seem to be pretty good ones, granted, and no I didn't know them.

but that's not much to do with trackers, or this new decentralized system. even though afaik, DHT has been around for quite a while.

[Jasper]

I know, I just got the impression that people were going to individual sites for all their torrent needs, when they could be searching multiple places more easily.

Just trying to help.  Backing away from the network geek discussion very slowly...

[Triple Zero]

that v0rtex place looked pretty cool, did gave me a duplicate when searching for the german documentary "Staub", which unfortunately doesnt seem to be seeded anywhere anymore

the other site didnt really workw ell for me

[Cain]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

The implications are pretty cool.

[Telarus]

Yeah. Gotta love that Law of Eristic Escalation.