Demonii Tracker Tops 30 Million Connected Peers

An anonymous reader writes Demonii is the tracker behind the scenes for many BitTorrent sites serving pirated content. This week the tracker broke through the barrier of 30 million connected peers, handling no less than 2 billion connections per day. In other words, the scale of operation has become massive. TorrentFreak interviewed an operator of the site, and it was revealed that the tracker runs smoothly on just three dedicated servers, communicating at 180 Mb/s while serving 4 million torrents. Some people have argued that trackers are obsolete in the first place, as DHT and PEX allow peers to share the same information among each other, but Demonii's operator reminds that having trackers speeds up the initial peer finding significantly. In any case, Demonii is not going away anytime soon. The tracker is already on its way to another milestone. The 40 million peer milestone will probably come into view later this year, but first there are a trillion more connections to process.

Comments

DHT

[Anonymous Coward]

DHT is a nice concept but has one disadvantage: YouHaveDownloaded.com

Re:theres a reason they call them trackers.

[Kjella]

Uh, you do realize that if you launch a magnet link the first thing it'll do is download the torrent and connect to any trackers listed in it to find more peers, unless you've really gone out of your way to disable it you still use them. Not to mention that DHT broadcasts it out loud to everybody....

Re:theres a reason they call them trackers.

[jones_supa]

Given the propensity for american media cartels to levy disproportionately heavy lawswuits for content, sometimes in the billions or trillions of US dollars, most people use magnet links.

Take a look at a Magnet link, it has a list of trackers right in the URL.