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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 becau
by 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 agoWould 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 agoI 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!