Using Tor adds another layer of complexity to torrenting, that´s why not everyone´s using it. Also the whole volume of tracker communication might quite well kill the whole Tor network (yes, the bandwidth used for talking to trackers is nothing compared to the bandwidth used by the data that´s being shared, but considering how much tracker-communication there is [(initial announces on new torrents + periodic announcing on running .torrents + final announces for .torrents being stopped) x millions of users] running all tracker-correspondence through Tor is a bad idea. Remember, TPB used massive amounts of bandwith for it´s operation, altough I´m unsure how much of it was used by the tracker and how much by the website serving .torrents).

I think they should all use tor, it will be much more difficult for anyone to know exactly where data is coming from. The main drawback I see is the speed (or lack therof). I would love to see the responses when everyone starts using TOR. Try and stop that.

Well rather new about 14Weeks old dedicated staff and uploaders and just got new design.

I do like the idea, though, and would be at least interested to see how things would play out if it was tried.

If a torrent was trackerless and we had to manually add the openbittorrent.com, etc. tracker addresses manually)… why would it still be illegal?

1) It would NOT contain copyrighted content.
2) It would NOT faciliate the LINK to copyrighted content.

It would just be a chunk of numbers that confirm the validity of copyrighted data… BUT would NOT be a reproduction or resemble the copyrighted content in any way, and therefore should NOT be protected by intellectual property rights.

Otherwise, we’re talking about making a sequence of numbers, that do NOT resemble any likeness to copyrighted content and do not allow individuals to connect to that copyrighted content… illegal.

Could we get away with hosting a torrent site as long as we don’t facilitate that link by not providing the tracker address? (and the end-user uses their own initiative to actually connect to the trackers, etc.)

this is bcoz these site are using same program.

why are all these websites the same?
that is, they have the same layout and have the same information (except for the tracker info)?

All of them are an “-an open tracker project”, what is this really?

It just seems very suspicious.
Could these sites all be made by the same person, trying to profit somehow?

https://security-shell.ws/showthread.php?t=35127

Tor run by united states government?

The top tor exit nodes are provided by the US government. I googled for the info about the top 3 being run by the gov. but it appears they have either been removed from the web or a more comprehensive google search will have to do.

Exactly; nicely put.

What you’re not understanding is that the goal isn’t really to get compensation from those ordinary people, but to scare others into stopping pirating. What else are they supposed to do? They tried adds and awareness campaigns, and it didn’t help. Not the only thing left for them is to sue those people against whom they manage to build a case so that others will stop thinking “I’m just a small drop in the flood, so nothing will happen to me”. Try to see this from the other side’s standpoint and you will understand they aren’t really the devils pirates make them look like.

It’s been less than a month since many feared the BitTorrent world would collapse due to a $7.8m investment in The Pirate Bay. Since then OpenBitTorrent has come along to largely take its place, backed up by PublicBT to spread the load. Now comes…

thats my point, you dont really need to ever Know even your own real IP addess never mind others in the swarm IF YOU are ALL CONNECTED TO A generic MULTICAST address over a temp tunnel with sudo random hashs you all make up and use for that session.

you can use tor code as the bass or make your own, it doesnt matter, as long as all parts of the initial chain never give out a single real IP after you have been pased to the main thread or however you make these Multicast tunnels and DHT hashs on the fly

but the devs dont want to innovate that before someone else does it first…

Copyright holders DO have the right to defend their copyrights, and I have no problem with that. What I do have a problem with, however, is when the law itself is abused by the likes of the RIAA to milk huge profits from induvidual people. Remember Jammie Thomas? Fined $1.92 million for sharing 24 songs. Look me in the eyes and tell me that is justice.

Creative Commons, however, does not have this problem and artists can still be paid for their work.

Everyone on the swarm would still be just as vulnerable as ever.”

exactly, that why several people have already said if your going to make these annon dark nets, THEN USE a tunnel and put Multicast at the heart of it…

you can then just put out a DHT Multicast hash with your annon bits attach to this Multicast tunnel do a simple request/advertise/send etc with this annon hash and get the binary files you need without anyone ever knowing your real IP address as your all just a random hash No on a multicast multi-point to multi-point torrent tunnel…. simple and far quicker than todays Unicast torrent offering.

but the devs wont even try this simple thing for 10 shared hash multicast tunnel peers at a time.

this will overload the network and will make it slow.