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Give it a good reputation then. What are some legal torrent trackers?
by AlienRobot 2y ago
Give it a good reputation then.
What are some legal torrent trackers?
- unleaded 2y agoarchive.org to name one
- boomboomsubban 2y agoThat's debatable. Most of their torrents are for things under copyright, though any other decentralized archive would have the same problem.
- tourmalinetaco 2y agoThat’s a copyright problem. 99% of things made in the last 100 years fall under copyright.
- trod123 2y agoand a good number of things that were going to pass into copyright were further extended to 2053.
- ranger_danger 2y agoExcept when their own employees publicly tell people not to worry about copyright and just upload stuff anyway, they make it their own problem.
- ranger_danger 2y agoWhat is your definition of a legal torrent tracker? I was not aware there were even any illegal ones.
- AlienRobot 2y agoA tracker that only tracks legal torrents, e.g. free software, OCRemix content, etc.
- TZubiri 2y agoHow would you keep the definition of legality without a centralizing authority?
- AlienRobot 2y agoA tracker is a centralized authority.
- master-lincoln 2y agoBut legality doesn't have a central authority. What is illegal in one jurisdiction is ok in another
- AlienRobot 2y agoJust track things that are legal everywhere or in most jurisdictions then.
- boomboomsubban 2y agohttps://linuxtracker.org/ https://linuxtracker.org/ http://www.publicdomaintorrents.info/ http://www.publicdomaintorrents.info/ https://ocremix.org/torrents https://ocremix.org/torrents
- ranger_danger 2y agoI don't see how that would be enforceable. Policy perhaps, but it would be impossible to absolutely prevent it from being used for that purpose IMO.
- mikae1 2y ago> I was not aware there were even any illegal ones. Depends on the jurisdiction. Remember what happened in the The Pirate Bay trial?
- ranger_danger 2y agoMy understanding is that that court case did not show that operating a torrent tracker is illegal, but specifically operating a (any) service with the explicit intent of violating copyright... huge difference IMO. To me that's not even related to it being a torrent tracker, just that they were "aiding and abetting" copyright infringement.
- TZubiri 2y agoOk. But what is the case law in hosting illegal content? Sure you may operate a torrent, but if your client is distributing child porn, in my view, you bear responsibility.
- ranger_danger 2y agoI don't think TPB ever hosted any copyrighted content, even indirectly by its users. Torrent peers do not ever send any file contents through the tracker.
- defrost 2y agoI'm backing ranger_danger here. In Law the technicalities matter. Trackers generally do not host any content, just hashcodes and (sometimes) meta data descriptions of content. If "your" (ie let's say _you_ TZubiri) client is distributing child pornography content because you have a partially downloaded CP file then that's on _you_ and not on the tracker. The "tracker" has unique hashcode signatures of tens of millions of torrents - it literaly just puts clients (such as the one that you might be running yourself on your machine in the example above) in touch with other clients who are "just asking" about the same unique hashcode signature. Some tracker affiliated websites (eg: TPB) might host searchable indexes of metadata associated with specific torrents (and still not host the torrents themselves) but "pure" trackers can literally operate with zero knowledge of any content - just arrange handshakes between clients looking for matching hashes - whether that's UbuntuLatest or DonkeyNotKong
- seam_carver 2y agoHumble Bundle. Various Linux iso