Guden Oden said:The newest version of azureus has supported that for a while now, and probably other clones as well. Why does this count as news?
london-boy said:Sorry for the ignorance, but what does that change for me, American Idol Downloader lvl 30?
silence said:london-boy said:Sorry for the ignorance, but what does that change for me, American Idol Downloader lvl 30?
if torrents stop depending on torrent sites to post links to files, but become trackerless, then there would be no sites to sue for posting links and torrents would be all over the place....
how can you shut down something that isnt there?
_xxx_ said:But wouldn't that equal eMule, Kazaa etc.? Or does it work differently? I mean, would you be able to search stuff like with these two above?
What would make it special then?
Zaphod said:Another thing this is going to do is to kill, or drive way further underground, the 'private' ratio enforcing trackers. As it is with the latest Azureus a single 'peer sharing' client connected to such a tracker will cause all the other connected peers on a torrent to be exposed to those who previously would have been denied access.
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros. said:Even if most people elect not to use the serverless protocol, all it takes is one person connected to an old style tracker to be using the serverless protocol for all the other not-connected-to-that-tracker peers to then find out about all the other peers and to try to connect directly to them.
mito said:Bouncing Zabaglione Bros. said:Even if most people elect not to use the serverless protocol, all it takes is one person connected to an old style tracker to be using the serverless protocol for all the other not-connected-to-that-tracker peers to then find out about all the other peers and to try to connect directly to them.
Won't this encourage further bans as currently seen?
Do you mean banning clients or users? I predict that both will happen. The first one really won't work as Azureus is open source and it only takes one non-conformant peer to compromise the 'privacy' of the tracker. You'd need a protocol extension in the initial hanshake to the effect of 'supports distributed tracking' that's honoured by all clients in addition to rewrites of tracker software for this to be a proper solution for those wanting 'yesterdays' private trackers to continue as they were.mito said:Won't this encourage further bans as currently seen?