Want to earn money? It gets slightly trickier. ĭomains you can get from Njalla, Namecheap and a plethora of Chinese registrars who won't even read English abuse emails. Using those bitcoins to get torrent-friendly hosting? Hit up Infium in Ukraine, they won't mind a few threatening abuse emails. If you are technically inclined enough to operate a successful torrent site, it shouldn't be very challenging to operate such a site anonymously.īuying bitcoins, and then "laundering" the coins is relatively trivial, you just run them through a few of the more anonymity-inclined altcoins. Only the ZeroNet approach would offer a way to solve this that would be comparable to existing torrent sites today. On the other hand, with the big public bittorrent indexes that is extremely rare because they tend to get flagged pretty fast due to sheer popularity more than anything else. Almost every time I download a game or app from usenet, it's got some script kiddie's trojan bound to it. You can see the huge benefit of this pretty easily if you compare bittorrent to other things. Overall, Bittorent sort of has moved in this direction, they've added support for trackerless peering, 3rd parties have created search tools, but I think many people still rely on the websites because they offer additional functionality like malware removal and commenting and popularity in general. The other route I've seen people go is that of ZeroNet where you can have a central authority or a service-based approach like traditional torrent sites, but P2P-based distribution of the site. Their anonymous communication is pretty sketchy security wise, I wouldn't rely on it, but their DHT search is pretty good and their client has some cool features like streaming video too. It was easier to grab the information from a trackerĬheck out Tribler, they have the torrent search thing working in a similar way to Kad from eDonkey land. I built the first half of that (DHT Crawler essentially) but it was always the peer information that was a pain. You can then create comments or ratings with mutable data signed by your server to keep track of good / bad torrents. On top of that, if you created an immutable record for each torrent with the torrent information (or ran a lightweight torrent system to pull torrent information from a single peer) you can easily get the torrent information to store in the search engine, and then query the DHT for unique peers to get peer information. With a large enough DHT node base, you don't need to run a tracker to get peer information. BEP 44 should really help with that and actually might be a start with truly decentralizing the whole system. Granted, I would have loved a system like that to subscribe to new torrents that get announced to a tracker with peer updates every so often, but that sort of addon would be incredibly high resource intensive.Ī better way IMO is to allow the DHT network to query a little bit more information and have arbitrary data attached to a torrent. Adding a subscription system would probably overload many trackers and make running one of those extremely expensive. Trackers already do a lot of work in keeping peers up to date.
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