A Perspective on Privacy & BitTorrent Trackers
Adam Frucci over at Gizmodo has put up a descriptive article concerning private torrents. Here are some excerpts:
People serious about downloading pirated music, movies, TV shows, software and other media aren’t interested in getting a letter from their ISP or the RIAA/IFPI/MPAA/CRIA. They’re also not interested in getting viruses or fake files, often seeded on public trackers by copyright enforcers looking to make piracy annoying. So they’ve built up hundreds of private sites that only trusted users can access.
A private BitTorrent tracker is a site that you can only gain access to via an invite from a current user. Some of them are very basic, featuring merely a searchable list of torrents people have uploaded. Many feature forums with the trackers for people to announce and discuss files that are available. The most sophisticated feature gigantic databases that organize the files like the greatest online downloading store ever built, but with no checkout.
The RIAA told me that while both public and private trackers are “enormously damaging,” they’ve handed the reigns over to the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) to go after these sites. This is probably because many of these sites are hosted overseas. The IFPI told me that “it focuses resources on the top of the illegal supply chain of music, regardless of whether that is a public tracker, private tracker or other source.”
Read it here.
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