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▶Torrent Sites Suffer DDoS Attacks and Other Trouble Anonymous 09/03/17 (Sun) 09:00:29 No.789334>>789336 >>789448 >>795460 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

By Ernesto Fagioli

>The past few days have been pretty hectic for many torrent sites, several of which have suffered downtime due to DDoS attacks. But the trouble doesn't stop there. WorldWideTorrents had its domain name suspended, while IsoHunt.to has disappeared without a trace.

>It’s not uncommon for torrent sites to suffer downtime due to technical issues. That happens pretty much every day.

>But when close to a dozen large sites go offline, people start to ask questions.

>This is exactly what happened this week. As reported previously, The Pirate Bay was hard to reach earlier, after a surge of traffic and a subsequent DDoS attack overloaded its servers. And they were not alone.

>TorrentFreak spoke to several torrent site admins who noticed an increase of suspicious traffic which slowed down or toppled their sites, at least temporarily. While most have recovered, some sites remain offline today.

>TorrentProject.se, one of the most used torrent search engines, has been down for nearly three days now. The site currently shows a “403 Forbidden” error message. Whether this is a harmless technical issue, the result of a DDoS attack, or worse, is unknown.

>TorrentFreak reached out to the owner of the site but we have yet to hear back.

>Another site that appears to be in trouble is WorldWideTorrents. This site, which was started after the KAT shutdown last year, is a home to many comic book fans. However, over the past few days the site has become unresponsive.

>Based on WHOIS data, the site’s domain name has been suspended. The name servers were changed to “suspended-domain.com,” which means that it’s unlikely to be reinstated. WorldWideTorrents will reportedly return with a new domain but which one is currently unknown.

https://torrentfreak.com/torrent-sites-suffer-ddos-attacks-and-other-trouble-170901/

http://archive.is/eKVe5

▶Anonymous 09/03/17 (Sun) 09:04:07 No.789336>>789340

>>789334 (OP)

>WorldWideTorrents had its domain name suspended

Bullshit, they just changed servers.

▶Anonymous 09/03/17 (Sun) 09:13:36 No.789340>>789343

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>>789336

True, worldwidetorrents.me

I didn't even knew about that one (or idope.se), I'm pissed because torrentproject.se was my go-to site. They even had auto-generated video thumbnails.

Does anyone have more info about what happened to torrentproject.se? They don't seem to have any status account anywhere.

▶Anonymous 09/03/17 (Sun) 09:19:53 No.789343

>>789340

>Does anyone have more info about what happened to torrentproject.se?

No, was searching around this morning for info and I couldn't find anything

▶Anonymous 09/03/17 (Sun) 09:33:57 No.789349

One domino falls, the rest have to.

▶Anonymous 09/03/17 (Sun) 11:55:51 No.789382>>789389 >>789468 >>789691 >>790070 >>790202 >>793227 >>793889

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>public trackers

▶Anonymous 09/03/17 (Sun) 12:33:31 No.789389>>789391

>>789382

>lol my private tracker is invincible because they ask you a few questions before you can get an account

▶Anonymous 09/03/17 (Sun) 12:49:14 No.789391>>789400 >>790202 >>793227

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>>789389

>his "private" tracker allows people in via interview

▶Anonymous 09/03/17 (Sun) 13:17:07 No.789400>>789426

>>789391

How do you operate a private tracker that has only a handful of people in it? Will there be some sort of guarantee that the participants be able to seed indefinitely?

▶Anonymous 09/03/17 (Sun) 14:58:36 No.789426>>790202

>>789400

>being this pleb

▶Anonymous 09/03/17 (Sun) 16:38:32 No.789448>>789481 >>789671

>>789334 (OP)

How soon until someone makes a decentralized torrent search engine? eMule (kad) has had one for 10+ years. Vuze has one, but it's pure shit.

▶Anonymous 09/03/17 (Sun) 17:40:30 No.789468

>>789382

Private trackers are less secure because you have an account attached to the data. It's much easier to identify people.

▶Anonymous 09/03/17 (Sun) 19:05:58 No.789481>>789482 >>790138 >>793045

>>789448

They tried, but with a site.

It was called btdigg.org

Closest thing to it now is qBittorrent's native search, but it relies on providers, which are precisely those sites.

But it needs to be done ASAP, to implement BTdigg's search engine in a client.

▶Anonymous 09/03/17 (Sun) 19:07:57 No.789482

>>789481

Here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160229084836/http://btdigg.org/about/

▶Anonymous 09/04/17 (Mon) 02:18:24 No.789606>>789671

https://worldwidetorrents.me/

▶Anonymous 09/04/17 (Mon) 06:23:49 No.789671>>790170 >>790202 >>793045

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>>789606

Based on a couple searches, idope.se has more stuff than worldwidetorrents.me

>>789448

>How soon until someone makes a decentralized torrent search engine?

The way DHT works, you'd still need a large database. I'm not sure how these torrent crawlers work, is it DHT?

▶Anonymous 09/04/17 (Mon) 08:03:32 No.789691

>>789382

>muh sekrit club

▶Anonymous 09/04/17 (Mon) 10:33:57 No.789718>>790050 >>790064

https://thepiratebay.org/

Still up.

▶Anonymous 09/05/17 (Tue) 04:45:41 No.790050>>790064

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>>789718

Hasn't The Pirate Bay become a shit tracker that heeds to DMCA? Or is modern Pirate Bay the same Pirate Bay that had those bantz about legal letters?

▶Anonymous 09/05/17 (Tue) 05:10:07 No.790064

>>790050

Every torrent site is getting emptied of torrents. TPB particularly hard.

>>789718

They have so much experience with this take-down shit that they must have something else, or they became a honeypot.

▶Anonymous 09/05/17 (Tue) 05:34:17 No.790070>>790075 >>790169

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>>789382

1. I don't trust a private company with my data and they totally are not cops or the government honey potting

2. Assuming private tracker is legit, having your data attached to a company/group that tries to conceal your illegal activities probably makes you 10x more of a target than just getting lost in the sea of IP addresses of a public torrent. The chances of you going to jail for downloading Latest Action Movie Part 2 out of 10000 other leechers that particular hour is nil.

▶Anonymous 09/05/17 (Tue) 05:52:03 No.790075

>>790070

What if you have a pretty generous seedbox?

▶Anonymous 09/05/17 (Tue) 06:09:13 No.790079>>790088

https://www.tribler.org/

Has a built in search engine plus anonymizing feature that makes it impossible to prove if you were uploading a torrent.

▶Anonymous 09/05/17 (Tue) 06:43:20 No.790088>>790139 >>790170

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>>790079

>Has a built in search engine

Is there an API? The only thing I want is to search and get magnets, I use qBittorrent on a seedbox and would rather download on that instead.

Alternatively, is the search any good? What is it based on, a web service?

▶Anonymous 09/05/17 (Tue) 10:13:48 No.790138>>790202 >>790487

>>789481

skytorrents does the same thing but is advertised i.e. is honeypot version

▶Anonymous 09/05/17 (Tue) 10:14:56 No.790139

>>790088

>seedbox

>needing Qt

Does qBittorrent actually have any features that are missing from rasterbar-libtorrent?

▶Anonymous 09/05/17 (Tue) 13:49:38 No.790169

>>790070

>getting lost in the sea of IPs

retard

the way it works is they simply copy every IP in the swarm, get the owner of said IP and then sue them

you are not safe because everyone gets hit

▶Anonymous 09/05/17 (Tue) 14:01:26 No.790170>>793049

>>789671

>idope.se

>https://files.catbox.moe/3xuhh1.png

I'd upload directly but Tor what can I say?

>>790088

Tribler is slow as shit for me for some reason. I don't know if that's my internet connection or what.

▶Anonymous 09/05/17 (Tue) 16:02:46 No.790202

>>789382

>>789391

>>789426

>pretending

There's not a single private tracker that doesn't recruit new users online, whether through interviews or recruiting on other trackers.

t. member and recruiter for more than a dozen PTs.

>>789671

iDope aggregates content like TorrentProject, while WWT is pretty shit and only used for Nem34's comics.

>>790138

Skytorrents and TorrentProject were DHT sniffers. They're upload torrents from other sites but also randomly add a hash. If the hash worked, they'd add it to the list along with the metadata.

It's almost fully automated.

▶Anonymous 09/05/17 (Tue) 22:07:12 No.790351

>greentexting the article

>his name is ernesto van der sar

▶Anonymous 09/06/17 (Wed) 03:35:51 No.790487>>792586

>>790138

>skytorrents

>( NO Cookies, NO javascript , NO ads ) on the website's front page

>not good enough for anon

▶Anonymous 09/12/17 (Tue) 04:45:13 No.792586

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>>790487

▶Anonymous 09/12/17 (Tue) 05:27:54 No.792598>>792966 >>793048

>Torrent Project is still down

What the fuck is going on?

▶Anonymous 09/13/17 (Wed) 01:13:30 No.792966>>793048

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>>792598

>>Torrent Project is still down

>What the fuck is going on?

Really curious too. Did these people have no contact info at all? Were they memory-holed?

▶Anonymous 09/13/17 (Wed) 01:18:49 No.792968

They need to move to something like IPFS.

▶Anonymous 09/13/17 (Wed) 06:37:39 No.793045>>793830

>>789481

btdig.com

No, it's a centralized service, it's not decentralized. It scrapes Bittorrent. Kad(eMule) is 100% decentralized.

>tokenize query

>hash each token

>issue dht query with hash as key

>check if returned result matches all queried for tokens

>if it matches, display it

>>789671

You can scrape the DHT, make the database public/create new DHT, then anyone can search without central servers.

▶Anonymous 09/13/17 (Wed) 07:00:31 No.793048

>>792598

>>792966

The .onion is still online (still shows 403), so the server hasn't been seized. Has anyone tried sending an email? The mail server is still up.

▶Anonymous 09/13/17 (Wed) 07:11:50 No.793049>>795250

>>790170

>ublock in tor

▶Anonymous 09/13/17 (Wed) 18:22:04 No.793227

>>789382

>>789391

You haven't learned anything from the shutdown of what.cd, have you?

Thanks to that muh sekrit private club mentality, most of their torrents were lost.

▶Anonymous 09/15/17 (Fri) 15:45:06 No.793830>>793873 >>793878

>>793045

>>tokenize query

>>hash each token

>>issue dht query with hash as key

>>check if returned result matches all queried for tokens

>>if it matches, display it

If you search for "example", will it also show results containing "examples"?

>You can scrape the DHT, make the database public/create new DHT, then anyone can search without central servers.

You'd either need to include this in every torrent client, or have a web service where the database can be queried.

▶Anonymous 09/15/17 (Fri) 17:43:57 No.793873

>>793830

>If you search for "example", will it also show results containing "examples"?

No, but if you search for "example*" it will.

>You'd either need to include this in every torrent client, or have a web service where the database can be queried.

Why not both? If the database is public, it takes less than 5 minutes to set up such a web service. You could also write a local client outside of the torrent client that queries it.

Take a look at sqltorrent and fts4.

▶Anonymous 09/15/17 (Fri) 17:53:47 No.793876>>793878 >>793887

any torrent site up now?

▶Anonymous 09/15/17 (Fri) 17:56:09 No.793878>>794566

>>793830

>If you search for "example", will it also show results containing "examples"?

No, but if you search for "example*" it will.

>You'd either need to include this in every torrent client, or have a web service where the database can be queried.

Why not both? If the database is public, it takes less than 5 minutes to set up such a web service. You could also write a local client outside of the torrent client that queries it.

Take a look at sqltorrent and fts4.

>>793876

btdb

▶Anonymous 09/15/17 (Fri) 18:47:57 No.793887>>794319

>>793876

Never had a problem with pirate Bay. Had a demonoid account for a while but I forgot my login.

▶Anonymous 09/15/17 (Fri) 18:55:27 No.793889

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