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join:2003-08-10
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 ·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to MichaelBoltn
Re: It won't be long
@ MichaelBoltn,
BitComet already swaps peer data across swarm boundaries for matching file hashes, increasing your peer-counts without any tracker intervention or knowledge. It's an interesting scheme and in many ways superior (or inferior, depending on your POV) to your idea of swapping tracker data. Raises all kinds of security/enforcement issues a la copyrights & regional marketing agreements - including raising the specter of network file pollution.
The reason your tracker data-swap idea would not work is trackers can be easily made to know & ID their client userbase: a number of tools including cookie logins, IP filtering and passkeys (inserted into torrent files) already are in wide use. Clients are far more exploitable than trackers as they'll talk to anything that has the same file hashes: the announce URL another client is using doesn't matter to a client. |
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internetlol2
join:2005-01-04
Fairfax, VA
| reply to Dont_Bogart
I'm not too thrilled on the idea of a huge BT network where you can download from any tracker just by connecting to one. Private sites that restict access and track ratios are still more appealing to me, even if they don't offer up as much content. The speeds are actually better for everybody if you discourage leeching by the threat of a ban. (and you may not have noticed but there are A LOT of leeches on public swarms).
Is it reasonably to expect there to me more fakes and spoofs the larger the network? It's one thing to download a spoof of a 4 meg MP3, another thing entirely when it's a 4.7 gig DVD-R. |
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Dont_Bogart
| reply to MichaelBoltn
That virus.... pass it onto someone else for good measure 
Michale, there are a lot of theroy's about how to do this and some practical infomaiton on some of this information...
The real wrinkle is... at somepoint in time; you connect from some server / client into the backbone; and as all this informaiton whips around the global network, it can be tracked.
So..... the more folks try to hide who they are; the more the anonimity is going to disapear...
I'm not holding my breath on any of the techniques I've read about to thwart those who are distributing or permitting the distribution of illegal download / uploads.... eventually; it's going to be almost impossible to send somehting "Anonymously"....... perhas from a public library or something like that... but short of that...I'm not so sure.
Good luck |
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MichaelBoltn
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join:2005-03-31
Vishnuland
| reply to felixml
What?
Here's how my idea works:
- You type the address of a known tracker into your BT client.
- Along with all torrent data for that tracker, you also receive the IP addresses of other clients that are connected.
- Your BT client automatically requests tracker URLs and torrent info from the client IPs you got from the tracker.
Once you've been in the "system" for 5 minutes, you'd have more than enough tracker URLs to never need to visit another BT site again. You'd simply connect to more and more peers, continually gaining tracker URLs every time you connected.
- Your BT program would parse XML/RSS data from each tracker your client knows of. You could then search your new database of torrents for what you wanted.
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"I had this name before that no-talent ass clown got famous and started winning Grammys." - Me |
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felixml
join:2003-02-19
Sherman Oaks, CA | reply to MichaelBoltn
still separate web sides |
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