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Exactly. Anyone starting a community like this should be planning for plausible deniability from the beginning. You can build a metadata community that is seaml
by pault 10y ago
Exactly. Anyone starting a community like this should be planning for plausible deniability from the beginning. You can build a metadata community that is seamlessly interoperable with a tracker without actually containing any links to the tracker. Think something like trakt.tv, but make the IDs on the metadata site match the IDs on the torrent site and otherwise completely firewall the two. Different owners, different infrastructure, etc. I don't see how a community that simply collects data and ratings can be shut down.
- palunon 10y ago>make the IDs on the metadata site match the IDs on the torrent site And there you get an IRL banhammer. A lot of torrent "trackers" already only store the content ID on the DHT, it doesn't stop them from being shut down...
- pault 10y agoSo theoretically, if I made a torrent site where the torrent IDs were all IMDB IDs, is IMDB a torrent tracker? My comment above was mostly thinking-out-loud, but I was assuming that there wouldn't be any concrete link between the community site and the tracker.
- palunon 10y agoSo basically the metadata site becomes yet another third party provider...