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Motivated seeders can take their participation to this next level. You can edit the tracker index list of announce URLs maintained by the individual seeder for the file being seeded. There are two ways to do this. Some BitTorrent clients, like μTorrent, add trackers when you open a tracker site's torrent for a torrent already in the index ...
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Torrents with multiple trackers can decrease the time it takes to download a file, but also have a few consequences: Poorly implemented [59] clients may contact multiple trackers, leading to more overhead-traffic. Torrents from closed trackers suddenly become downloadable by non-members, as they can connect to a seed via an open tracker.
A torrent file contains a list of files and integrity metadata about all the pieces, and optionally contains a large list of trackers. A torrent file is a bencoded dictionary with the following keys (the keys in any bencoded dictionary are lexicographically ordered): announce —the URL of the high tracker
Demonoid is a BitTorrent tracker and website founded in 2003 to facilitate file-sharing related discussion and provide a searchable index of torrent files.The site underwent intermittent periods of extended downtime in its history due to the occasional need to move the server, generally caused by cancellation of ISP service due to local political pressure.
Rainberry, Inc., [3] formerly known as BitTorrent, Inc., is an American company responsible for μTorrent and BitTorrent Mainline. [4] [5] The company was founded on September 22, 2004 by Bram Cohen and Ashwin Navin.
On 22 May 2010, the OpenBitTorrent tracker was shut down. [2] This was a result of a case against The Pirate Bay by many major Hollywood studios. Later the tracker came back online. OpenBitTorrent is powered by the opentracker software. The Pirate Bay also used the opentracker software, before they shut down their own tracker. [3]
A scrape, or tracker scrape, is a request sent by a BitTorrent client to a tracker. A request is sent, connection to the tracker is established, information is exchanged, then the connection is closed. The request does something like a "wipe" or a "pass" over the tracker, and then the tracker sends information back to the client. [1] [2]