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Countdown to the domain being seized. You'd think there would be some alternative to DNS by now for the pirate crowd.
by word-reader 7y ago
Countdown to the domain being seized. You'd think there would be some alternative to DNS by now for the pirate crowd.
- ohithereyou 7y agoBitTorrent does not require trackers. You can make trackerless torrents that use DHT for peers.
- stock_toaster 7y agoAnd magnet links so you don't even need to download a .torrent anymore either.
- windoze 7y agoDHT does have a few DNS based bootstrap servers.
- zaarn 7y agoThey can be operated by anyone, most Torrent software lets you set the bootstrap servers, rtorrent only requires connecting to a node that knows a bootstrap server.
- throwaway9d0291 7y agoIt's been around for 10 years and doesn't distribute anything you don't find elsewhere, I don't think it's going anywhere.
- benbristow 7y agoThere's OpenNIC but nobody really uses it. https://www.opennic.org/ https://www.opennic.org/