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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers (kianbradley.com)

submitted 22 hours ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 19 hours ago

That was a bit more than just a tracker backend

[-] anzo@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago

TPB is still around, only magnet links are around. They were hosting torrent files which is basically a list of trackers. That's what they had to drop, in order to continue functioning. And their DNS is still banned like from almost every westernized country.

Regardless of technicalities, they were #1 biggest player. (Today they are like #3 or #5?) What I mean to say, is that they got busted mainly because of this. To make an example.