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

theres a reason they call them trackers.

[nimbius]

Althought here is an efficiency increase, the reason most torrent users consider them obsolete is the ability for third parties to discern who has downloaded a specific file or torrent. 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.

I would be very suspicious of a new tracker thats gained in popularity using a technology that could widely be used to dragnet its userbase into lengthy and costly court proceedings. Especially after the recent pirate bay sting site.

"not going away anytime soon"

[Arancaytar]

That's pretty optimistic for a centralized site that seems to do exactly what the Pirate Bay got shut down for...