Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
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Re: Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
#2> Is this legal?
Why wouldn't it be? You're not actually hosting a tracker in this case, only looking at incoming connections. And even if you do run a tracker, hard to make the case that the tracker itself is illega. Hosting something like opentrackr is like hosting a search engine, how they respond to legal takedown requests is where the crux is at, and whatever infra sits around the tracker, so police and courts can see/assume the intent. But trackers are pretty stupid coordination server software, would be crazy if they became illegal.
Re: Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
#3> Is this legal? Why wouldn't it be? You're not actually hosting a tracker in this case, only looking at incoming connections. And even if you do run a tracker, hard to make the case that the tracker itself is illega. Hosting something like opentrackr is like hosting a search engine, how they respond to legal takedown requests is where the crux is at, and whatever infra sits around the tracker, so police and courts c…
Is this legal isn’t a useful question. The better question is how likely are you to get sued? With civil lawsuits it doesn’t matter if it’s legal you can be sued and harassed by lawyers if you get on their radar.
Re: Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
#4> Is this legal? Why wouldn't it be? You're not actually hosting a tracker in this case, only looking at incoming connections. And even if you do run a tracker, hard to make the case that the tracker itself is illega. Hosting something like opentrackr is like hosting a search engine, how they respond to legal takedown requests is where the crux is at, and whatever infra sits around the tracker, so police and courts c…
Do you think the police understand this nuance? Especially since most of the traffic that will go through there is probably copyright infringement?
They'll just see tracker and assume it's illegal.
Re: Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
#5This is like when cloudflare picked up the IP address 1.1.1.1. They saw a ton of traffic to it as soon as it went hot, because a bunch of people had scripts pointing at it.
Re: Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
#6> Is this legal? Why wouldn't it be? You're not actually hosting a tracker in this case, only looking at incoming connections. And even if you do run a tracker, hard to make the case that the tracker itself is illega. Hosting something like opentrackr is like hosting a search engine, how they respond to legal takedown requests is where the crux is at, and whatever infra sits around the tracker, so police and courts c…
Is this legal isn’t a useful question. The better question is how likely are you to get sued? With civil lawsuits it doesn’t matter if it’s legal you can be sued and harassed by lawyers if you get on their radar.
No need to sue. Send a cease and desist and your average hacker like OP will take it down in a hurry...
Re: Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
#7You bought a house that had a murder X years ago and are wondering if your guilty for the murder, probably not - aslong as you don't do more murder in it.
I suppose real life is more interesting though, the guy who picked up the domain to stop the global ransomware crisis was picked up after Defcon if memory serves.
Ironically your probably at more risk from the GDPR for leaking those IP addresses that connected to the box via your blog post.
I'm not a lawyer/solicitor though, don't take my advise.
Re: Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
#8Seems like the perfect opportunity for a FBI honeypot
Re: Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
#9> Is this legal? Why wouldn't it be? You're not actually hosting a tracker in this case, only looking at incoming connections. And even if you do run a tracker, hard to make the case that the tracker itself is illega. Hosting something like opentrackr is like hosting a search engine, how they respond to legal takedown requests is where the crux is at, and whatever infra sits around the tracker, so police and courts c…
Do you think the police understand this nuance? Especially since most of the traffic that will go through there is probably copyright infringement? They'll just see tracker and assume it's illegal.
Do you think the police are actually policing the internet?
Even if you didn't mean your local police, and meant a national body like the FBI, the truth is they focus on other crimes (eg. child abuse), and even then they are woefully unable to handle even most of those crimes.
The vast, vast majority of copyright enforcement comes from copyright holders ... not the internet copyright police.
Re: Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
#10Seems like the perfect opportunity for a FBI honeypot
Isn't that one of the first things they do when they identify + take down a site hosting CSAM?