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How hard would it be to build a distributed hosting system for all the torrents ever on Piratebay ? Considering how one poster here says that all of the torren

How hard would it be to build a distributed hosting system for all the torrents ever on Piratebay ? Considering how one poster here says that all of the torrents upto 2013 fit into 90 MB , its quite feasible. It could tunnel over TOR to make tracking things a little more difficult.

cpach 12y ago
Sure. But how would one manage updates? I.e. accepting new torrents.
- thewarrior 12y ago
  How about just falling back to Gnutella P2P for the torrent hosting layer.
  - cpach 12y ago
    Is that really a viable alternative? My impression is that people left the Gnutella network due to instability and floods of crap files.
- icebraining 12y ago
  http://www.tribler.org/ http://www.tribler.org/
RubyPinch 12y ago
Isn't it already roughly done like that? the entire bittorrent magnet system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme which, if I'm not mistaken, will look for peers which have the relevant torrent file, and acquire and use that - - - and the 90MB is all the information /except/ torrent files, once again, if I'm not mistaken
- cpach 12y ago
  Currently you still need a web site for searching the magnet links.
  - NoMoreNicksLeft 12y ago
    I've always wondered if bittorrent itself wasn't the right protocol for this. Let's say you have a tiny web page, with embedded javascript that implements bt. A person could keep a copy of this page local to their system, have a bookmark for it. The page, when it loads, uses bt to grab a copy of thepiratebay, and load it inline. It wouldn't even need a domain name at that point. The swarm for this would be large enough that it would be self-sustaining, it'd be impossible to shut it down. I just can't figure out how you'd make it updatable, so that new content could be added to it. (Also, there's the issue of initial distribution of the html file that let's people get access to it...)

cpach 12y ago

Sure. But how would one manage updates? I.e. accepting new torrents.

thewarrior 12y ago
How about just falling back to Gnutella P2P for the torrent hosting layer.
- cpach 12y ago
  Is that really a viable alternative? My impression is that people left the Gnutella network due to instability and floods of crap files.
icebraining 12y ago
http://www.tribler.org/ http://www.tribler.org/

RubyPinch 12y ago

Isn't it already roughly done like that? the entire bittorrent magnet system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme which, if I'm not mistaken, will look for peers which have the relevant torrent file, and acquire and use that - - - and the 90MB is all the information /except/ torrent files, once again, if I'm not mistaken

cpach 12y ago
Currently you still need a web site for searching the magnet links.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 12y ago
  I've always wondered if bittorrent itself wasn't the right protocol for this. Let's say you have a tiny web page, with embedded javascript that implements bt. A person could keep a copy of this page local to their system, have a bookmark for it. The page, when it loads, uses bt to grab a copy of thepiratebay, and load it inline. It wouldn't even need a domain name at that point. The swarm for this would be large enough that it would be self-sustaining, it'd be impossible to shut it down. I just can't figure out how you'd make it updatable, so that new content could be added to it. (Also, there's the issue of initial distribution of the html file that let's people get access to it...)