Comments on: BitTorrent Hydra: Anonymous Hidden Tracker Via Tor

By: Was wird aus der Bucht? « startafire

Was wird aus der Bucht? « startafire — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:14:54 +0000

[...] Aber was ist nun mit Torrents? The Pirate Bay speicherte keine Peer-Daten, konnte also auch keine Daten herausgeben. Wohin nun mit meinen Torrents? Erstaunlich ist das Auftauchen von OpenBittorrent, einem Tracker ohne Torrent-Suche oder Verzeichnis. Er nutzt die gleichen IPs wie TPB und wurde nach Bekanntgabe des Verkaufs gelaunched. Wer noch eine Suche benötigt, der kann z.B. Google bemühen, indem er nach filetype:torrent sucht. Natürlich kann man auch zu einem anderen Tracker wechseln, Vorschläge dazu ab in die Comments! Eine weniger gute Wahl scheint mir MiniNova. Eine bessere Wahl ist wahrscheinlich PublicBT, welcher fast genau wie OpenBittorrent aussieht. Auf jeden Fall erwähnenswert ist noch The HiddenTracker, welcher das TOR-Netzwerk nutzt. [...]

By: Die frage nach dem Piratebay-Erbe « Don’t panic – Die Computerkneipe

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:57:50 +0000

[...] Wegfall von The Piratebay.org das Bittorrent Netzwerk am Leben halten kann und stellt das Projekt Hiddentracker vor, das in Zukunft das TOR zur Verschleierung von IP Adressen nutzen will. [...]

By: LRN

LRN — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:00:05 +0000

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Also the whole volume of tracker communication might quite well kill the whole Tor network
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Each new Tor user that uses Tor to connect to something ALSO becomes a node in the Tor network. Which means that as long as each user is capable of routing as much Tor traffic as (s)he generates h(im/er)self, Tor will stay balanced. The only node that gets HEAVY load is the tracker itself, but that’s nothing new.

By: Borderliner

Borderliner — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:23:38 +0000

Those worrying about Tor exit node spying – it´s irrelevant in this case. The traffic doesn´t leave the Tor network, hence exit nodes aren´t used (instead all server nodes are used).

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).

By: P2P using anonymous TOR-TorrentFreak « FACT – Freedom Against Censorship Thailand

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:04:37 +0000

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By: What the Ban of The Pirate Bay could mean for The Netherlands | BasBasBas.com

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:39:13 +0000

[...] are constantly working on increasing the quality of filesharing and making it harder to track (see this article about HydraTorrent, which, by the way, has already copied all of TPB’s torrents). Now that The Pirate Bay is [...]

By: TOR Trackers Please

TOR Trackers Please — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:23:01 +0000

[quote]why don’t ALL Trackers use Tor?[/quote]

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.

By: Godfather

Godfather — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:26:25 +0000

http://strikeys-torrents.com

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

By: Toneh

Toneh — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:24:56 +0000

The background on this site looks a bit familiar.. Huh. :)

By: Geekazoid

Geekazoid — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:09:51 +0000

I’m not saying this isn’t smart, i’m just thinking, if this is such a big “EUREKA, no more police knocking down our doors”-moment, then why don’t ALL Trackers use Tor?