The Hydra Project: An Anti-Piracy Proof BitTorrent Tracker
Written by Ernesto on December 03, 2007The Hydra Project is a new script for private BitTorrent trackers designed to resist any attack or raid, and to guarantee the privacy and anonymity of its users. It’s truly hydra compatible, which is much needed quality in these turbulent times.
The Hydra Project, THP for short, is developed with privacy, anonymity and survivability in mind. One of innovative features of the project is to make an OpenID for users of private BitTorrent sites so their login information and upload/download ratios can be shared across different websites. The torrents can also be shared among different trackers. This ensures that user ratios and uploaded torrents will not be lost if for some reason one of the BitTorrent trackers ceases to exist.
Shanti Braford, the developer of the project explained to TorrentFreak: “The idea is that a group of admins can get together and form a sort of distributed set of private BitTorrent trackers. bacon.org, eggs.com, ham.net and sausage.fm can all get together, share user databases, torrents, upload/download ratios, etcetera. If eggs.com gets raided, the rest of the sites are still alive and the torrents people have downloaded will still work because they’ll be associated with multiple tracker URLs.”
THP will be one of the most private and anonymous BitTorrent trackers, something that most users will absolutely appreciate. For example, no email addresses will be collected, the IPs will not be stored (only memcached) and .torrent files will not be connected to users. There is even an option for the administrator to delete all data via a memcached shutdown in case the server loses its connection to the network, which will happen if there’s a raid.
The tracker script is developed in Ruby on Rails. “The code is about 90% there,” Shanti told us “I’ve kept it very simple and rudimentary, but functional. If any PHP coders are interested perhaps it could be ported over.” I would encourage all developers who are interested in the project to take at the project page and THP’s Sync API wiki.
If THP lives up to its expectations the Hydra will be more flexible and stronger than ever.
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balls in a hat!
So much happier to use this one then use one that records your IP - copyright breacher? Me? *Cough*
Sounds exactly like what’s needed for the bittorrent community. Hopefully this isn’t just a flash in the pan and it turns out to be The Next Big Thing.
This is what we’ve needed for a while. Let’s hope these guys follow through and deliver.
If it’s true, this would be nice. Unfortunately, the MAFIAA knows about this too now.
…what? you’d think they diddn’t check this site? o.O
Cheers to THP! I like the idea if one place gets shutdown all Torrents will continue to survive at another location. It’s like a never ending domino effect.
They may finish before Christmas, giving all p2p users a nice and safe present. That one deserves two jellybabies! Three when it’s 100%.
The Hydra Project is hella cool. Making our lives alot safer. This will make the anti pirates hella jealous. Lol!
Three cheers for the hydra project,
hip hip
Long live THP! Can’t wait for this to finish. That 90% completion rate reminds me of having an old 56K modem. I wonder if it’s at 92% or even 93% complete now.
[quote comment="229886"]Three cheers for the hydra project,
hip hip[/quote]
Horray!!
Nice.
[quote comment="229888"]Long live THP! Can’t wait for this to finish. That 90% completion rate reminds me of having an old 56K modem. I wonder if it’s at 92% or even 93% complete now.[/quote]
It’s still at 90% complete. A snail may actually get across a road before this thing gets done. I’m just too anxious! Please hurry and save our community Hydra. Your our only hope.
[quote comment="229891"][quote comment="229886"]Three cheers for the hydra project,
hip hip[/quote]
Horray!![/quote]
Hip Hip!!
This is really sweet! But even when its 100% complete they will need to do the standard alpha, beta, delta tests for final approval. Afterwards then we can all rejoice. No more worries from those pesky anti pirates…at least for the time being. THP will be our version of stealth technology. Hehe
Horray!!
but how come it took so long for such an idea?
but how come it took so short time to come up with sutch a stOoOoOopid question?
Hip hip!!
Horray!!
Wouldn’t this just make it easier for the anti-piracy organisations to find and persecute all the trackers in this hive?
Aweshome! with a lishp :P
I prefer “Hip hip Jorge”, but since I’m not playing baseball now “Hip hip horray” will do just fine.
After reading all of the ‘hip hip horray’s’ I forgot what I was going to write. Damn. Oh well hip hip horray!
Number one join us in our celebration.
willriker:Ai ai captain. Hip hip horray!
Its amazing how Hollywood lobbies for the MPAA to put pressure on the government of the States to crack down on such stuff that is in the “Grey Zone”. And they in turn put pressure on Interpol to do the same. Just amazing.
If Hollywood would get off their high horse (and how many of their movies are stolen from writers that try to make a break in their screenplay and a studio steals it when they say “not our kind of movies, sorry”. Now not only were their previous movies stolen crap, now they won’t even pay the writers that steal the idea to say its their own. Pretty funny. So what now? Will Hollywood begin to sue studios, heaven forbid, if a new opens up and decides they don’t care if their movies are copied after a period of time?
What will Hollywood do if people stop downloading their movies and half the hype of movies vanishes?
Nice idea :) Hope it gets airborn soon!
Some Q’s:
If you have 1 torrent in that Hydra, you have the IP off ALL other trackers? Doesn’t this increase server load for all the trackers?
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