The big reason for the recent witch hunts is because many bittorrent clients are slow to make changes to the BT protocol to decentralize bittorrent.
E-mail the author of the clients you use to add the 'get_peers/peers' extension to their clients. This removes the need for trackers beyond a single connection. (this means, if a tracker goes down, your transfers continue at full speed without issue)
Send the e-mail, as this will not happen until enough pressure is placed on the authors of BT clients. Force bittorrent to evolve!
XBT Client + BitComet are the only clients that support this so far.
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The big reason for the recent witch hunts is because many bittorrent clients are slow to make changes to the BT protocol to decentralize bittorrent.
E-mail the author of the clients you use to add the 'get_peers/peers' extension to their clients. This removes the need for trackers beyond a single connection. (this means, if a tracker goes down, your transfers continue at full speed without issue)
Send the e-mail, as this will not happen until enough pressure is placed on the authors of BT clients. Force bittorrent to evolve!
XBT Client + BitComet are the only clients that support this so far.
This extension will allows the discovery of other peers without involving the tracker( 'get_peers/peers')
handshake:
byte 7 bit 1 (h[7] & 2)
get_peers message:
00 00 00 03 0b 1a e1
00000003: size
0b: get_peers
1a e1: local port (6881)
peers message:
00 00 00 09 0c 1a e1 compact array
00000009: size (3 + 6 * count)
0c: peers
1a e1: local port (6881)
compact array: 6 * count bytes of host:port combinations
Ops forgot to mention it was quote from XTF the creator of XBTC :P props to him.
Please change it! Thanks G3 Torrent!
This sounds like a nice cool feature.
Interesting discussion going on with TheSHAD0W and Lowkee.
http://forums.lokitorrent.com/index.php?showtopic=12783