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Yes and no. Currently sites like torrentz.com give multiple trackers for torrents so that you can get the best set of peers/seeds for a torrent. These sites ar
by GrandMasterBirt 17y ago
Yes and no.
Currently sites like torrentz.com give multiple trackers for torrents so that you can get the best set of peers/seeds for a torrent. These sites are going to become moot.
Also the legal issues associated with running TPB is going to literally go away for all future business. TPB can't be held responsible for holding an MD5 hash of a file, since they don't host trackers anymore they won't be responsible for even facilitating anything. Basically the record industries have to go after the customers yet again.
The only thing left is an IP masker mechanism which is super easy to use in torrents and torrents will become completely untraceable :P ok fine someone will find a way.
- eli 17y agoReally? How is hosting an MD5 hash (but not the file) for the purpose of enabling file sharing any different from hosting a tracker (but not the file) for the purpose of enabling file sharing?
- TFrancis 17y agoIt has other uses like verifying file integrity.
- mikepurvis 17y agoTheoretically, sure. Might be an effort persuading a judge of that.
- eli 17y agoIANAL, but I don't think "has other uses" is the legal standard you need to worry about.