Does this also share back DHT information like a "server"? I am not downloading torrents, but I always wished to have a daemon running on my servers to help the overall DHT networks health. Is there anything like this out there? A DHT server, that only collects, stores and gives back information?
> Does this also share back DHT information like a "server"?
No, it ignores all incoming requests. You don't need special software to help out, just run any normal Bittorrent client in the background (no need to download or share anything) and it will help out. Just make sure you forward the right port if you are behind a NAT. Traffic will slowly increase over time, and drop quickly when offline, so leaving it up for days at a time is better when possible.
Please remove copyrighted movies from the screenshot on your website. It provides evidence that this program is designed for violating copyright, which makes DCMA takedown trivial.
Thanks - I only condone accessing the legal content available on BitTorrent, and my screenshots now embody this moral stance.
Yes, I'm grateful for this being built so I can locate and identify all the copies of Linux I could download and install...
> Pipe dream features > In-place seeding: identify files on your computer that are part of an indexed torrent, and allow them to be seeded in place after having moved, renamed or deleted parts of the torrent Does anything do this already? It would be amazing to point a client at a folder of unstructured junk and have it magically find the right parts.
I would be worried about the implications in terms of security and privacy. Back in the days, other P2P networks allowed to share arbitrary files and it was common for clueless users to just share their entire computer.
Why isn't this built into thick desktop BT clients? Is it just a little too early for it, and next year it will be? Or is there some reason I'm missing?
People who are in to torrenting enough to consider self hosting a bitttorrent indexer largely dont use desktop BT clients. They chain different software together on a home media server or seedbox such that the whole concept of torrents, seeds, trackers, etc is unseen plumbing and instead you have interfaces focused on the content. Descriptions, trailers, actor lists, etc. You subscribe to a tv show for example and then episodes are just automatically downloaded as they air according to your preset quality criteria, then they appear in your own personal netflix style app.
Guys, please educate me: I want to use torrents, but the thought of downloading something inappropriate by clicking on a deceptive link terrifies me (e.g., a download with the title of an action movie, but it turns out to be something else). How do you guys handle that risk?
Unless you're also afraid of clicking links on the web, you should be fine with torrents. Maybe you could not seed by default and turn it on only after verifying the data is authentic, that way you're actually only downloading and the analogy is complete.
Not the same. A link on a site has implied authority because of the domain. For example a link on Microsoft.com vs some shady looking site. There is some point of reference at least to judge.
Very interesting. Does this approach actually work in practice? Also what happens if illegal content gets scooped up into the index?
I think illegal (unlawful?) content is its raison d’etre. With the odd exceptions of thinks like linux distros, LLM weights etc. to take pressure off centralized servers.
Isn't this much the same as btdig.com which is based on: https://github.com/btdig/dhtcrawler2 I use this service to do security research a fair bit. It'd be nice if there was a higher quality self-hosted version I could use so I'll be watching this project with interest!
I use btdig for finding torrents myself.
But I am curious what you mean when you say you use it "to do security research"?
Are you just looking for security information that is available in torrents, or does btdig have some other features that I am unaware of?
Why isn't this built into thick desktop BT clients? Is it just a little too early for it, and next year it will be? Or is there some reason I'm missing?
What the other person said, but also: you have to have your crawler up for several days, ideally near 100% uptime for this to be effective. Thick clients can have high uptime but they also can not.