Largest BitTorrent Trackers Go Offline in Protest

[XenosisReaper]

Article from TorrentFreak

OpenBitTorrent and PublicBitTorrent, the two largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet, are on strike. Both trackers are going offline to protest the unresponsiveness of the makers of uTorrent who were asked to introduce a simple protocol enhancement that would save the non-profit trackers thousands of dollars. As a result of the protest, many people are having trouble downloading files on BitTorrent.

OpenBitTorrent (OBT) and PublicBitTorrent (PBT) are two non-profit BitTorrent trackers running on the beerware licensed Opentracker software. Neither service hosts or links to torrent files and both are free to use by all BitTorrent users.

The trackers are the two most-used BitTorrent trackers, and both are generally coordinating the downloads of tens of millions people at any given point in time. However, starting a few days ago the trackers stopped working entirely, and not without reason.

The admin of OpenBitTorrent informed TorrentFreak that both trackers are on strike. Both will remain offline until a solution is found for the massive waste of bandwidth that BitTorrent users generate as the result of incorrect tracker announces.

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This should be interesting, I wasn't even aware the trackers operated as a separate entity.

Also fuck darkflare

[Spawinte]

If I am unable to download Breaking Bad this evening I will be most upset.

[Rudolf Miller]

Private trackers ftw?

[Kransthow]

This thread has nothing to do with trouble shooting pc problems and neither is it of technical focus so it should be moved to the general discussion forum.

[Gesadt]

meh i use private trackers anyway

[drealar]

meh i use private trackers anyway to download my linux isos

[Itiken]

Welp - my overblown sense of entitlement!

[Gesadt]

meh i use private trackers anyway to download my porn

[firefoxx80]

Tbh I'm not surprised. uTorrent isn't as good as it used to be, and the developers of it have a "fuck you" attitude,

[Muffinsrevenger]

Using uTorrent atm for linux downloads, anyone have any legit alternatives?

[EntroX]

people still use torrents?!

[Nordstern]

I only use torrents for linux isos and eve videos...

If torrents disappeared forever tomorrow, I wouldn't bat an eye.

[drealar]

people still use torrents?!

Please tell me more about paying to steal stuff.

[Jason Marshall]

people still use torrents?!

Please tell me more about paying to steal stuff.

I too would like to know more..

I still use demonoid..

[FatFreddy]

literally never heard of either of those

[Kransthow]

people still use torrents?!

I torrent all my animu

[Raine Woot]

And nothing of value was lost. IPtorrents members max my connection on almost everything anyway, with no data cost.

Incidentally I have an invite, pm me if you want one and can keep your ratio up.

[Cornucopian]

I too would like to know more..I still use demonoid..

Were did Demonoid go? Server is offline

E: nvm. hacked and family issues... time to find me another torrent site.

[Serious Bob]

I would like an invite to a good tracker, I usually have a 15–1 ratio. 100–100 line and a torrent box makes it easy.

[orcane]

I too would like to know more..I still use demonoid..

Were did Demonoid go? Server is offline

E: nvm. hacked and family issues... time to find me another torrent site.

Bleh, there was a good Sims 3 (yeah right, deal with it) custom content package on there, updated monthly. Welp.