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A private tracker is a BitTorrent tracker that restricts use by requiring users to register with the site. The method for controlling registration used among many private trackers is an invitation system, in which active and contributing members are given the ability to grant a new user permission to register at the site, or a new user goes through an interview process.
It supports IPv6, gzip compression of full scrapes, and blacklists of torrents. Because there have already been cases of people being accused of copyright violation by the fact that their IP address was listed on a BitTorrent tracker, [ 2 ] opentracker may mix in random IP address numbers [ 3 ] [ 4 ] for the purpose of plausible deniability .
Rounded magnet icon used on The Pirate Bay. Magnet is a URI scheme that defines the format of magnet links, a de facto standard for identifying files by their content, via cryptographic hash value rather than by their location.
OpenBitTorrent's initiative to provide a free, stable service with no ties to indexing sites or even hosting torrent files has been a public success and it has spawned several copies with almost identical services.
Site Specialization Is a tracker Directory Public RSS One-click download Sortable Comments Multi-tracker index Ignores DMCA Tor-friendly Registration
Does not have a list of hosted torrents. qBittorrent [7] C++: GPL-2.0-or-later: Yes Yes [8] Windows, OS X, Unix-like, OS/2: Lightweight. Supports DHT, PEX, announcements via UDP. Does not have a web interface or list of hosted torrents; it is not designed for secure or large-scale application. Vuze [9] Java: Disputed: Yes Windows, Mac OS, Linux
The UDP tracker protocol is a high-performance low-overhead BitTorrent tracker protocol. It uses the stateless User Datagram Protocol (UDP) for data transmission instead of the HTTP protocol (over TCP) regular trackers use.
In the BitTorrent file distribution system, a torrent file or meta-info file is a computer file that contains metadata about files and folders to be distributed, and usually also a list of the network locations of trackers, which are computers that help participants in the system find each other and form efficient distribution groups called swarms. [1]