Comments on: Busting Common Trackerless Torrent Myths

By: Megadeth dude

Megadeth dude — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:13:43 +0000

Thanks for the well written article.

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By: RIAA Anti-Piracy Partner Clueless About BitTorrent | InstantIdiocy

RIAA Anti-Piracy Partner Clueless About BitTorrent | InstantIdiocy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:20:10 +0000

[...] that piracy went down. Most BitTorrent transfers were working fine due to the wonders of DHT (trackerless torrents), including the ones that were using only the Pirate Bay [...]

By: RIAA Anti-Piracy Partner Clueless About BitTorrent @ blog.idtorrent.org

RIAA Anti-Piracy Partner Clueless About BitTorrent @ blog.idtorrent.org — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:00:46 +0000

[...] that piracy went down. Most BitTorrent transfers were working fine due to the wonders of DHT (trackerless torrents), including the ones that were using only the Pirate Bay [...]

By: RIAA Anti-Piracy Partner Clueless About BitTorrent | We R Pirates

RIAA Anti-Piracy Partner Clueless About BitTorrent | We R Pirates — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:38:10 +0000

[...] that piracy went down. Most BitTorrent transfers were working fine due to the wonders of DHT (trackerless torrents), including the ones that were using only the Pirate Bay [...]

By: Jack Valenti

Jack Valenti — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:34:15 +0000

Most home network routers/gateways/modems will automatically create a port forward mapping back to your ‘puter once you send a UDP packet out of them, to support multiplayer games. Some will then allow any host on the net to send a packet to the port and it will forward it back to your client (an “open cone” NAT.) In that case there is only one mapping per port you use on your computer. Some devices, on the other hand, associate the outgoing IP address in the port mapping so only the queried host can send packets back in. That’s bad because DHT involves talking to a lot of different hosts, which means those devices will end up creating a lot of mappings and when they run out of memory they fail.

By: Ninja

Ninja — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:29:51 +0000

DHT is awesome. It can add hundreds of peers to a torrent that seems almost dead if you use only the tracker.

Nice article

By: Your Old Friend, Ignorance

Your Old Friend, Ignorance — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:02:26 +0000

Perhaps it’s time for Torrent Freak to do one more myth busting article. I’m a member of three private trackers and I’ve been a VIP for nearly two years at one of them. It’s apparent that a lot of readers here believe in a number of foolish myths regarding them. Public trackers do have a slight edge over private ones and for good reason. The people attempting to obfuscate this fact do so because they are likely owner/operators of privates sites themselves and are being disingenuous for that very reason. They’re afraid because the truth has the potential to hurt their primary source of income. But please don’t take my word for it. Try both types for a few months and rely on the only opinion that matters — your own!

By: constantine

constantine — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:39:07 +0000

@63

Couldn’t agree more. I had a 60 gb bandwidth limmit. Yeah, like I can keep my ratio at 1.00. Get your head out of your ass! Its no t like all of us have 500 gb to upload. Also am a screen reader user here. Most private trackers I signed up for had little or no solutions for frr me.

By: Jeff K.

Jeff K. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:36:56 +0000

@37:

Ah, another scenetorrents user. I was thinking “Wow, that sounds almost word for word…” For good reason. :)