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Magnet-hashes for all torrents on The Pirate Bay: 164 MB
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Re: Magnet-hashes for all torrents on The Pirate Bay: 164 MB
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
magnet of the magnets: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:938802790a385c49307f34cca4c30f80b03df59c&dn=The+whole+Pirate+Bay+magnet+archive&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80
Should be titled "The whole Pirate Bay magnet archive except this torrent" :-) I think a magnet link is based on the hash of the contents too, so it might be an interesting problem to include the torrent's own magnet link in itself.
The BT Infohash is mostly a hash of the hashes of the blocks + file names + a couple of other things. Notably the list of trackers is not part of the infohash, so adding trackers to a torrent file does not affect the hash.
If you're really interested, install the Python module bencode, and use it to de-serialize a .torrent file.
Re: Magnet-hashes for all torrents on The Pirate Bay: 164 MB
#23This gets very meta very quickly. If linking to copyrighted data 'should' be illegal (SOPA), then what about descriptions of that data that are sufficient to identify the original, but not reconstruct it (magnet links)? And if those were made illegal, then what about descriptions of those descriptions? You can recurse infinitely on this. Beyond mere amusement, after just one or two recursions, you get to the point wh…
The more one studies computer science, the less one believes that information can be owned in any meaningful way. I remember reading a paper on a "lightnet" that basically XORed arbitrary blocks of data together, then produced a recipe on how to recover some original data by XORing the appropriate blocks. With just this recipe you could ask other nodes for the random blocks, then recover the original data locally. Th…
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Re: Magnet-hashes for all torrents on The Pirate Bay: 164 MB
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
The more one studies computer science, the less one believes that information can be owned in any meaningful way. I remember reading a paper on a "lightnet" that basically XORed arbitrary blocks of data together, then produced a recipe on how to recover some original data by XORing the appropriate blocks. With just this recipe you could ask other nodes for the random blocks, then recover the original data locally. Th…
I feel this is dealt with by the fact that law has a concept intention. Handing out the recipe for reconstructing the pirated material counts as aiding piracy, I would say.
Yes, in much the same way that any given number could be random, pseudorandom or nonrandom given its context, it can also be in violation or accordance with copyright law depending on its legal context.
Re: Magnet-hashes for all torrents on The Pirate Bay: 164 MB
#25Got it down to 70 MB with lrzip. Any better?
I got 68.2MB with xz. (Whoa, 1.8MB difference...)
Re: Magnet-hashes for all torrents on The Pirate Bay: 164 MB
#26sorry if i'm being daft, but can't you get this down to a magnet link itself? THe page linked does just that: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:938802790a385c49307f34cca4c30f80b03df59c&dn=The+whole+Pirate+Bay+magnet+archive&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80 but wikipedia has an example of a magnet link like this: magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:YNCKHTQCWB…
Hi, would you mind editing your post to remove the really really long string of text? It's breaking the page.
Re: Magnet-hashes for all torrents on The Pirate Bay: 164 MB
#27Got it down to 70 MB with lrzip. Any better?
68MB with "xz -9 --extreme" :P
Re: Magnet-hashes for all torrents on The Pirate Bay: 164 MB
#28The Pirate Bay front page claims 4.187.907 torrents. But, this 164MB is only ~1.5 million torrents. Is the discrepancy from exclusion of the porn torrents? I'm guessing this guys scrape missed them; you have to be logged in to TPB to see them.
It does contain adult content.
The IDs are sequential, but there are substantial gaps. Removed spam torrents, most likely.
Re: Magnet-hashes for all torrents on The Pirate Bay: 164 MB
#29This gets very meta very quickly. If linking to copyrighted data 'should' be illegal (SOPA), then what about descriptions of that data that are sufficient to identify the original, but not reconstruct it (magnet links)? And if those were made illegal, then what about descriptions of those descriptions? You can recurse infinitely on this. Beyond mere amusement, after just one or two recursions, you get to the point wh…
That's what this is already, eh? A description of copyrighted data would be the torrent file, which content producers would probably like to argue are infringing. A magnet link is a hash of the torrent file, so it's already two steps removed. Of course, the Pirate Bay magnet dump is itself a torrent, so it's a hash of a hash of a hash of copyrighted data. And that torrent itself has a magnet link: 938802790a385c49307…
And, continuing back from hexadecimal, we have the splendid:
842254760070427756125843951997302119090555319708
Perhaps its prime factorization also belongs on that list.
2^2×3^2×23×89×24733×462111028392156064869667382167578133253
It would also be wise to outlaw the URL I've just linked, and perhaps also the combination of letters "JROu8" as they also contain the information in question given proper context.
Re: Magnet-hashes for all torrents on The Pirate Bay: 164 MB
#30This gets very meta very quickly. If linking to copyrighted data 'should' be illegal (SOPA), then what about descriptions of that data that are sufficient to identify the original, but not reconstruct it (magnet links)? And if those were made illegal, then what about descriptions of those descriptions? You can recurse infinitely on this. Beyond mere amusement, after just one or two recursions, you get to the point wh…
That's what this is already, eh? A description of copyrighted data would be the torrent file, which content producers would probably like to argue are infringing. A magnet link is a hash of the torrent file, so it's already two steps removed. Of course, the Pirate Bay magnet dump is itself a torrent, so it's a hash of a hash of a hash of copyrighted data. And that torrent itself has a magnet link: 938802790a385c49307…
Ha. I bet one of those hashes is a hex representation of a copyrighted song lyrics