On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Steven Schear <schear.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > These trackers
These *websites* are not actually "trackers" and have generally shifted away from providing tracker service ever since legal pressure made bundling services riskier, and a new independantly operated layer of services providing the tracker function with opentracker as bootstrap / fallback, for the DHT via PEX etc... has arisen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opentracker The proper term for these websites is searchable "indexes (DB's)", bundled with community bling forums. In reality it is the "indexes" that... > need to adopt distributed hosting tech, like IPFS or NetZero, > so there are no single points of pressure/failure and the operator IP and > identity have a reasonable chance of staying private from technical > snooping. The bootstrap of tracking (where to first securely linkup with peers for DHT) also needs fixed. "Filesharing" could be designed lots of ways, doesn't have to be "bittorrent protocol" proper. Though if it was compatible with BT clients you'd have millions of instant users / nodes in your encrypted anonymous ecosystem.
