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Please have a look at this pull request I submitted some time ago to Bittorrent.org: https://github.com/bittorrent/bittorrent.org/pull/35 https://github.com/bit

by sktrdie 10y ago

Please have a look at this pull request I submitted some time ago to Bittorrent.org: https://github.com/bittorrent/bittorrent.org/pull/35 https://github.com/bittorrent/bittorrent.org/pull/35 It's about updating torrents via DHT mutable items. Meaning that torrent sites could share their public key and simply seed an .rss file containing their indexed torrents (a mapping of infohash -> descriptions). When they want to share new torrents, they simply update their torrent to a new .rss file and consumers will hop on that new swarm. We need more support to get this into a standard BEP and also into torrent clients. I know there are other networks (IPFS, I2P, Freenet, ZeroNet, etc..) that do this, but BitTorrent is the most widely used and I think implementing functionality in the torrent ecosystem itself would have much more effect.

petra 10y ago
Another alternative is tribler.com an open-source bittorent client, that supports anonymity and P2P search, and it's written in python. I wonder what it would take to transfer a large index from KAT or torrentz to it, and start popularizing it.
- JTon 10y ago
  FYI, the .com URL is a law firm. Here's the proper one: www.tribler.org
rakoo 10y ago
The real value of sites like TPB and KAT is the community upvoting/downvoting torrents to only keep the correct torrents, and people commenting about actual quality, pointing the problems of encoding or language... This can't be provided by your proposals or anything that relies around an RSS feed, unfortunately
- sktrdie 10y ago
  Trusting the entity that they're not updating the torrent with spam is the first step. Discussions about the quality of torrents is a different matter which I think neither TPB and KAT have solved - spam accounts could invade such centralized services and downvote quality content. In my opinion a "community" is better built out of a network of trusted public keys.

by sktrdie 10y ago

petra 10y ago

Another alternative is tribler.com an open-source bittorent client, that supports anonymity and P2P search, and it's written in python. I wonder what it would take to transfer a large index from KAT or torrentz to it, and start popularizing it.

JTon 10y ago
FYI, the .com URL is a law firm. Here's the proper one: www.tribler.org

rakoo 10y ago

The real value of sites like TPB and KAT is the community upvoting/downvoting torrents to only keep the correct torrents, and people commenting about actual quality, pointing the problems of encoding or language... This can't be provided by your proposals or anything that relies around an RSS feed, unfortunately

sktrdie 10y ago
Trusting the entity that they're not updating the torrent with spam is the first step. Discussions about the quality of torrents is a different matter which I think neither TPB and KAT have solved - spam accounts could invade such centralized services and downvote quality content. In my opinion a "community" is better built out of a network of trusted public keys.