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This is an interesting concept because until reading this, it had never occurred to me that the torrent indexes are typically centralized as opposed to the dece

This is an interesting concept because until reading this, it had never occurred to me that the torrent indexes are typically centralized as opposed to the decentralized nature of torrenting.

Stephen304 12y ago
That was exactly my goal. I was thinking how easy it is for people to download the backups that a couple torrent sites provide, but hardly anybody does so because the backups are hard to use. I also hope that, in addition to encouraging people to download torrent archives, that I may also help encourage more torrent sites to provide archive downloads of their torrent database.
- toomuchtodo 12y ago
  > that I may also help encourage more torrent sites to provide archive downloads of their torrent database. Could the underlying archive be managed with git? For distributed versioning, sha verificiation, etc?
- Maakuth 12y ago
  Would it be possible to populate it just by indexing everything tracked in DHT? There was a research paper featured here recently, but I can't find it right now. They had a way of getting a decent chunk of all the DHT torrents and did some analysis based on that data.
  - Stephen304 12y ago
    I think that would be a nice way to import torrents without relying on a site that could be taken down. Unfortunately, I don't know a ton about DHT and the BitTorrent protocols. I'm still trying to figure out how to scrape a UDP tracker in go to get seed / leech counts. I like this idea though!