Comments on: PublicBT Tracker Set To Patch BitTorrent’s Achilles’ Heel https://torrentfreak.com/publicbt-tracker-set-to-patch-bittorrents-achilles-heel-090712/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:19:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: m3th /publicbt-tracker-set-to-patch-bittorrents-achilles-heel-090712/#comment-582441 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:55:35 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=15123#comment-582441 If a torrent was trackerless (and us eye-patch wearing, parrot-supporting shipmates just added the openbittorrent.com address 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.

I say… go host a torrent site, but just remove all trackers from the torrents, let people figure out which tracker addresses to enter and you will not be guilty of facilitating piracy as you will not have provided anyone with a link to actually retrieve copyrighted content.

Yay??? or Nay???

Yaaaarrrrrrrrrr!!!

]]> By: The Tech Town » BitTorrent Hydra: Anonymous Hidden Tracker Via Tor /publicbt-tracker-set-to-patch-bittorrents-achilles-heel-090712/#comment-582429 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:06:09 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=15123#comment-582429 [...] of other torrent sites already considered that possibility when they came together to create PublicBT, a ‘pirated’ version of OpenBitTorrent. The tracker is open to all, just like [...]

]]> By: BitTorrent Behind the Scenes: BTjunkie – FUCK THE RIAA /publicbt-tracker-set-to-patch-bittorrents-achilles-heel-090712/#comment-582409 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:35:21 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=15123#comment-582409 [...] of BTjunkie, one of the most visited torrent sites, and one of the guys behind the newly launched PublicBT [...]

]]> By: links for 2009-07-25 at DeStructUred Blog /publicbt-tracker-set-to-patch-bittorrents-achilles-heel-090712/#comment-582391 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:35:15 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=15123#comment-582391 [...] PublicBT Tracker Set To Patch BitTorrent’s Achilles’ Heel | TorrentFreak (tags: p2p bittorrent filesharing torrents Tracker) [...]

]]> By: Tech Whiz Underground » BitTorrent Hydra: Anonymous Hidden Tracker Via Tor /publicbt-tracker-set-to-patch-bittorrents-achilles-heel-090712/#comment-582363 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:04:02 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=15123#comment-582363 [...] of other torrent sites already considered that possibility when they came together to create PublicBT, a ‘pirated’ version of OpenBitTorrent. The tracker is open to all, just like [...]

]]> By: BitTorrent Hydra: Anonymous Hidden Tracker Via Tor - P2P Talk? /publicbt-tracker-set-to-patch-bittorrents-achilles-heel-090712/#comment-582316 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:53:06 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=15123#comment-582316 [...] of other torrent sites already considered that possibility when they came together to create PublicBT, a ‘pirated’ version of OpenBitTorrent. The tracker is open to all, just like [...]

]]> By: BitTorrent Behind the Scenes: BTjunkie - P2P Talk? /publicbt-tracker-set-to-patch-bittorrents-achilles-heel-090712/#comment-582285 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:32:04 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=15123#comment-582285 [...] of BTjunkie, one of the most visited torrent sites, and one of the guys behind the newly launched PublicBT [...]

]]> By: VanGrungy /publicbt-tracker-set-to-patch-bittorrents-achilles-heel-090712/#comment-582164 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:24:27 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=15123#comment-582164 We are all doomed to servitude to the internet cock…If you are on it, you are toast, with mayo cheese tomato and steak.

]]> By: Anonymous /publicbt-tracker-set-to-patch-bittorrents-achilles-heel-090712/#comment-581664 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:42:48 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=15123#comment-581664 @#60

You took the words outta my mouth, you speak the truth and nothing but the truth I like. :)

You and me are on same wave length aye!!! ^_^

]]> By: The Pirate Bay Will Soon Begin Reinvention as a Useless Service | PC Gaming news /publicbt-tracker-set-to-patch-bittorrents-achilles-heel-090712/#comment-581364 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:30:01 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=15123#comment-581364 [...] rethought. BitTorrent does not depend on The Pirate Bay, and new trackers have already lined up to take over its [...]

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