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Researchers Warn of Possible BitTorrent Meltdown
secmartin writes "Researchers at Delft University warn that large parts of the BitTorrent network might collapse if The Pirate Bay is forced to shut down. A large part of the available torrents use The Pirate Bay as tracker, and other available trackers will probably be overloaded if all traffic is shifted there. TPB is currently using eight servers for their trackers. According to the researchers, even trackerless torrents using the DHT protocol will face problems: 'One bug in a DHT sorting routine ensures that it can only "stumble upon success", meaning torrent downloads will not start in seconds or minutes if Pirate Bay goes down in flames.'"
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Considering that a large majority of trackers are for pirated media anyway, I doubt that anyone other than the thieving hypocrites would likely notice.
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That's it.
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So much for anonymous readers.
And this is a site where people are arguing about privacy?
Is privacy in danger when gov is in the game or when privates are also in the game.
Do I trust more /. or the gov?
And what if I don't trust them both?
Hey, look, I'm replying to a Funny comment, because I want to be a part of it, too and maybe someone will think I made a joke and will vote me Funny, too! Yay! Long live stupidity! Yay! The parent said something funny and I tried to take a slice, so please upvote me. Yay!
I'm tired of these fucktards...
Why should ISPs host newsgroups? As a customer, I don't want to subsidize that. Also, Usenet is a stupid idea. Why is this centralized hierarchy needed exactly? I understand why it was originally needed, but that's irrlevant now. Now the protocol is brilliant, if only phpBB forums for example would also be accessible through it it would be heaven.
Troll, -1.
Solution? Support The Pirate Bay. Don't download? Support them anyway for the things they do to battle the MAFIAA and other evils.
No way. As a software developer, and I have to say that the Pirate Bay is NOT a friend of the working man. In no way can I ever support the Pirate Bay. I don't care if they do hurt the RIAA and MPAA. In fact, I'm rooting for the RIAA and MPAA in this case because I hate the Pirate Bay that much. They're worse than the RIAA and MPAA in my opinion. That's what Pirate Bay has done - they've been so nasty and evil (like telling copyright owners to go f**k themselves if they want their stuff off TPB) that software developers are hoping that they lose. To make matters worse, people define this conflict as a fight between the RIAA and TPB. It's not. As software developers, we're somehow "collateral damage" in this fight, and we're better off with the RIAA winning than if the Pirate Bay wins.
We need a real solution here. Continued existence of TPB is not a solution.
Don't support the Pirate Bay. Support the working man.
Most of torrent material is piracy as it is. Sites like Hulu.com ABC.com, CW, Amazon, Netflix and even Apple iTunes Store are making media easy to obtain. There is no need to support torrent as a vidio-audio media delivery system is you aren't a thief.