BitTorrent 4.10 released: trackerless

Posted May 19th 2005 8:21AM by Alberto Escarlate

has been released with a major improvement: it allows people to publish a torrent file very easily. This is made possible because the new version has a trackerless mode which means that all you need to publish a file is a website and (obviously) a Internet connection.

Trackerless in fact means that BT makes every client a lightweight tracker using the DHT protocol—based on a Kademlia distributed hash table—that allows clients to store and retrieve contact information for peers in a torrent. You still can choose to utilize the traditional dedicated tracker if you want to collect statistics about downloads. According to BitTorrent's website the trackerless system makes no guarantees to reliability.

Reader Comments

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1. Bram broke one of the major advantages of the protocol. He gave up to the pressure from Azureus and now BT clients slowly are being transformed into eMule.

BT has/had it's applications. BT is not a protocol for sharing 10,000 files from one seed.

In my view this is a sad day for BT.

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by arkady

2. I think you misunderstand how this works, arkady. It doesn't allow people to become mini-trackers in the sense of sharing tons of files. It allows you to become a mini-tracker only for the torrents you have open. I think it's advantages would be pretty minimal. The MPAA will be able to take down sites full of magnet links as easily as they take down sites with torrents. The only difference will be that the people on that torrent at that time can continue to seed to each other without the tracker.

A lot of private trackers will ban you for turning this feature on, BTW. It prevents them from collecting meaningful statistics and controlling access.

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Dustin Rodriguez

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