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One of the by-products of centralized trackers is allowing private trackers to exist. There are two reasons for them * Promoting seeding * Basic invite-onl
by alecco 16y ago
One of the by-products of centralized trackers is allowing private trackers to exist. There are two reasons for them
* Promoting seeding
* Basic invite-only protection from IP gathering oponents
Decentralized alternatives don't provide that. Think about the Wikileaks "insurance" torrent, there are plenty of government agencies sniffing. Even with peer blockers they can gather client IPs with the tracker, through DHT or peer exchange.
It's very interesting how this will shape the future of Internet and the Web.
- jamii 16y agoOneSwarm has an interesting approach to that problem, using short hop onion routing when sharing data with unknown nodes. Tribler promotes seeding by gossiping upload/download totals between peers and is experimenting with various methods of calculating reputation based on these statistics.