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Private torrent trackers. Check out r/trackers. It requires time and effort though.
by doublepg23 4y ago
Private torrent trackers. Check out r/trackers.
It requires time and effort though.
- brnt 4y agoHow does that help? YourISP is not looking at your HTTPS traffic, but your torrent traffic, right?
- willhinsa 4y agoThe ISP in general isn’t going looking for your torrent traffic. The DMCA groups are, and when they find it, they contact your ISP to enforce it. If it’s a private tracker, there’s a decent chance the DMCA groups’ tracking bots aren’t able to see that traffic.
- brnt 4y agoWhoever is sniffing, is surely sniffing DHT too, right? I would not count on all private trackers users disabling that.
- nebalee 4y agoAren't some ISP in the US owned by media companies? For those there would be a clear incentive to scan their customer's traffic for copyright violations, right?
- colinmhayes 4y agoI don't think it's the ISP monitoring for torrent traffic, but copyright holders honeypotting torrents and keeping track of the IP of seeders, maybe leechers too I guess. If the IP holder isn't on the tracker they don't see that you're pirating their stuff.
- brnt 4y agoWhoever is sniffing, is surely sniffing DHT too, right? I would not count on all private trackers users disabling that.
- doublepg23 4y agoPrivate tracker's "business model" as it were relies on a central tracker tracking the download and upload ratio of your client. They explicitly disable DHT as it misses the point of the economy.
- doublepg23 4y agoYes as the above commenters say the copyright holders (their enforcers really) don't have access to the private trackers swarm and will be unable to report your IP address.