On Monday, May 14, 2012 Vijay K. Gurbani wrote: > ...non-DHT trackers are being (have been?) phased out in BitTorrent > for reasons related to the tracker being a good target to legally > hold responsible...
On Monday, May 14, 2012 James A. Donald wrote: > ...old fashioned non-DHT trackers are subject to legal and > administrative attack, forcing the pirate bay to retreat from them. IANAL - but if you're running the link farm anyway, is there any additional liability in also running the trackers? It looks like in Pirate Bay case using trackers instead of DHT might mean just higher server load, but not any extra liability that they did not have in the first place. Were the trackers targeted in any legal attack that would not also target the link farm? Best wishes - S.Osokine. 15 May 2012. -----Original Message----- From: p2p-hackers-boun...@lists.zooko.com [mailto:p2p-hackers-boun...@lists.zooko.com] On Behalf Of James A. Donald Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 4:24 PM To: theory and practice of decentralized computer networks Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] Pirate Pay > On Monday, May 14, 2012 Vijay K. Gurbani wrote: >> This looks like Pirate Pay is injecting multiple sybils into the >> DHT with node-IDs close to the info-hash of the file, thus making >> the sybils responsible for the file. This assures that all queries >> are sent to the sybils, allowing the sybils to sent out false >> information to the other peers. >> >> [...] >> >> [1] http://www.moritzsteiner.de/papers/dht_traffic_localization.pdf On 2012-05-15 2:40 AM, Serguei Osokine wrote: > So old-fashioned non-DHT trackers should be unaffected by this? But old fashioned non-DHT trackers are subject to legal and administrative attack, forcing the pirate bay to retreat from them. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers Confidentiality notice: This message may contain confidential information. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not that person, you should not use this message. We request that you notify us by replying to this message, and then delete all copies including any contained in your reply. Thank you. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
