I Set Up a BitTorrent Tracker and This Happened...
2025-06-17
Noticing many BitTorrent trackers were dead, the author had a curious idea: buy a defunct domain, set up a tracker, and see what happens. The result? Millions of peers flooded in! This highlighted the centralized risks of the BitTorrent protocol and the legal gray area of trackers regarding copyright. While the tracker itself might not constitute 'inducement' to infringe, the author shut it down out of caution.
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