<story><title>ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/extratorrent-shuts-down-for-good-170517/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unicornporn</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s 2017 and I&amp;#x27;m so surprised that BT is still the dominant way to share copyrighted works illegally. Why hasn&amp;#x27;t a fully decentralized and E2E encrypted alternative replaced it? Who wants to actually run trackers these days?&lt;p&gt;F2F software like &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;retroshare.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;retroshare.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; exists, but nobody is using it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zanny</author><text>People flock to huge public trackers and reputable private ones for the accuracy of finding what you are looking for. On fully distributed systems, anyone can call anything whatever they want, and you need an authorship or rating system for users to give support to reputable sources.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t believe any decentralized network, including ipfs, has come up with a way for consensus accreditation of a source as being legitimate. If you look for a movie on piratebay, you have the ratings users give the torrents, the comments they write on it, and the number of active swarmers on that torrent all as credence to the legitimacy of it. If you lose any of that information you lose accuracy in finding what you actually want.</text></comment>
<story><title>ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/extratorrent-shuts-down-for-good-170517/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unicornporn</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s 2017 and I&amp;#x27;m so surprised that BT is still the dominant way to share copyrighted works illegally. Why hasn&amp;#x27;t a fully decentralized and E2E encrypted alternative replaced it? Who wants to actually run trackers these days?&lt;p&gt;F2F software like &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;retroshare.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;retroshare.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; exists, but nobody is using it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>Bittorrent doesn&amp;#x27;t need trackers anymore. Use DHT to find a node with part of the file you want, and peer exchange to query that node for the other nodes that have the rest of the file.</text></comment>