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  • We just created (1 hour ago) a pull request to the TorrentPier (public tracker engine which Rutracker and many other trackers use). It took 2-3 hours.

    Only hybrid torrents allowed currently (torrents containing both v1 and v2 inside)

    Ready abilities:

    • Show file hashes in file list
    • Show v2 hash inside magnet links
    • Removed displaying paddings (.pad folder) and counting their sizes.

    Tomorrow’s pull request may contain:

    • Showing file names, hashes and sizes in a table for search indexers to index (any seo advices?)
    • Answer to v2 hash announces
    • Some styling corrections

    Do you have any other ideas? Please comment.

    TorrentPier is the first tracker engine which will release with BitTorrent v2!



  • No, not yet, this question was probably posted by me. I’m one of the provocators to switch to the new protocol.

    The thing is the most tracker admins are:

    1. Too lazy to implement it.
    2. Have too little information about its benefits.
    3. Only heard downfalls associated by compatibility problems, which were exxagerated by people who don’t like to update their software.

    I even created a tool called tmrr. Which allows you to extract, compare and calculate file hashes (BTMR hash precisely — BitTorrent Merkle Root, hence it differs from a regular sha256) name for BitTorrent v2 compatible .torrents.

    Which already shows some advantages of use of the protocol in user environment, like finding same torrents contents with different names, reviving dead torrents, preserving historical Internet artifacts’ hashes.

    The final feature I’m going to release is the ability to download torrents without duplicates (first time in the history of BitTorrent), saving time, storage and bandwidth. Imagine downloading site, page dumps, libraries, video/photo archives and other uncategorized materials without duplicate files.

    Easily finding how much user storage specific game and its developers wasted due to ineffective coding.

    This feature is ready, but there are some problems in libtorrent (library that qBittorrent uses), which should be fixed by the next release (this year probably) to make it work.

    Hope this will get attention from users and accelerate the switch.










  • I think my explanation was exhaustive, but yes, that’s right… This applies not only to cp, the same “popular” people did not like Aaron, and it would be beneficial for them to have someone criticize Swartz, the usual psychology is to expose a person in a bad light, telling only about his misdeeds, binding some bad events to his/her world views. Some even pay for it.

    The point is that — people tend to forget all the good in a person, if he has done thousands of good deeds, one of his choices, which is not accepted or understood in society, reduces them all to nothing.