After being spammed with takedown request from several companies, ELiTE-TEAM, a French private BitTorrent tracker recently asked several torrent indexers to remove their torrents, and not to accept any new ones. Unfortunately their effort is doomed to …

It seems as if people like the attention that posting releases gets them but aren’t willing to even put a few minutes of work in to get it.

Actually, it does. While the referenced files have their own hash, the torrent file itself also has its own hash. Most all tracker software can remake uploaded torrents, however, which is how services like ISOhunt can include many trackers in a torrent that originally only had one. If you install something like BNBT Easytracker on your home system, you’ll find options to add a certain tracker to all uploaded torrents, or modify them in certain ways.

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More drama, please. The community owes them nothing, you see. Let the facts speak for themselves. First, they ran a private tracker which hardly helped the community as a whole. Second, they called themselves “elite” and it’s hard to think of a more vainglorious (read: disrepspectful towards others) name. Third, they were unable to sort out their private affairs and requested others to do the job for them.

Sharing is caring and I honestly can’t seee how these guys cared for anyone but themselves.

Besides, there are two types of people: those with the will to work and fight (TPB for example) and those who go down. ET went down. R.I.P.

too bad:( ;(

most private trackers have rules like that, however, users often dont obey them, and some even go so far as to make second accounts, seed a bit to get a reasonable ratio so they arent flagged up, and then set about dumping as many torrents as they can on pubs…they think its good for promo for the private sites, although if anything it worsens the general users perception of BT as they dont understand the politics of private sites etc… and are upset when they are unable to get the torrent they wanted to download, simple as that

somehow I can’t help myself but I dislike the spin the article tries to put on this. Nearly all privat trackers prohibit spreading their torrents to other trackers/indexers. If you are part of such a community you should respect that. Plus there is no purpose of putting the torrents on public trackers, the key will get blocked and no one getting the torrent from an outside indexer will get any peers from the private tracker. At least if the admins are not total monkeys. Thus I gues someone tries to get back at the admins of the tracker, because it only gives them exposure, without any benefits for other filesharers not being member of the private tracker.

Why don’t you have a nice big cup of STFU, a$$hole.

“As far as France is concerned, you’re right.”
—Rush Limbaugh,

Garlic eating surrender monkeys.

No. Torrent files have an “info dictionary” containing several items. The SHA1 value of the info dict is what makes up the “info hash” but the info hash is not stored in the *.torrent file.

Each client computes the info hash for itself, and uses that as a swarm’s identity key. This way, if someone modifies the contents of the info dictionary, the computed info hash will be different.

A tracker doesn’t know anything about the contents of the torrent file — just an info hash and data about clients that have sent requests about it.

Congratulation TorrentFreak, you killed a bittorrent tracker.

Torrent files on some other site, which refer to their dead tracker, that Isn’t Their Problem®.

Perhaps **AA said; “If you can get all the torrents related to your tracker (or most of them) removed, then we won’t sue you, we promise.
If you don’t do so, we’ll sue you, and your entire family to hell and back.”
Scared little ELiTE-TEAM makes request to remove torrents.
Everybody flips them the bird.
End of story.

Wish I understood BT a bit better… :s

After 2 years of passion and devotion to your service, the team of elite-team.net comes to decide the permanent closure of the site. The principal reason is the tragic disappearance of the one of our administrators there is 1 month, all the team was seriously affected by its disappearance, we decided to continue a time without him but, with final, the will is not there any more. The second reason is the general climate in the world of the division, which is increasingly deplorable and which do not give us any more the desire for continuing. We know that this decision is difficult but, we have reflects it maturely, we wish you a good wind on the fabric and we hope that you will include/understand our gesture and that you will support us in our pain. Thank you with all those which believed in us. Good continuation

and @7: the hash is of the file(s) being shared; adding trackers to the torrent does not alter the file(s) themselves, so it would not change the hash.

So that even if the torrents are posted in other sites it’s kinda useless coz of passkey thing.. :)

Is it even possible to add trackers to a torrent file without altering the torrent hash?

I dunno, maybe I just don’t understand dis prop0r…

many french private torrent website do this, you have to pass by the full url to log-in … so too bad.

If I owned an indexer and got an email like that I’d respond to it immediately, the community should help each other out like this.