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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. |
