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http://ticklestapeworm.blogspot.com [Information Super-Highway Road Rage] According to Rex, about 50 new torrents have been released from what he calls "fake" trackers (~31 in total.) These trackers are seemingly part of an elaborate plot to infiltrate the BitTorrent community with intentionally corrupt files. These movie and film titles are specifically designed to report false information to trackers, thereby gaining artificially inflated popularity.

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Freedom-to-tinker.com[Freedom-to-tinker.com] Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » MPAA Sues BitTorrent Trackers: A BitTorrent tracker serves as the nerve center .Last week, in response to the MPAA lawsuits against BitTorrent trackers, .

Dotnetjunkies.com[Dotnetjunkies.com] Sriram Krishnan (Moved to http://blogs.msdn.com/sriram) : Solving ...: One primitive idea I've had is for the Smoke server to contact all the blogs on its list (which theoretically could be all the blogs in the world) periodically and see whether they've been updated (using HTTP commands rather than downloading the entire feed). If the blog has changed, the process is reset - and the next client to request that blog would hit the blog server.

Joi.ito.comhttp://joi.ito.com [Joi.ito.com] Joi Ito's Web: BitTorrent public tracker needed: Once you do this, you can add yourself to the list of "torrent enabled" blogs that Torrentocracy knows about. I've set up a wiki for public editing of torrentocracy's internal RSS config file: http://torrentocracy.com/wiki/index.php?page=FeedsXML

P2p.weblogsinc.com[P2p.weblogsinc.com] Anatomic P2P means decentralized BitTorrent - The Peer-to-Peer ...: Respect P2P has interviewed the creator of Anatomic, which reveals a bit more for the layman than does the Anatomic P2P web site. The developer seems to have married a half-dozen different technologies, and has eschewed the Kazaa-alike search-based approach of eXeem.

Hyperorg.com[Hyperorg.com] Joho the Blog: Discussion on [FOO] Bittorrent: Excerpt: Antipiracy operatives have lost an edge over illegal downloaders of movies and software thanks to a new feature in BitTorrent. BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen has eliminated the need for Web site hosting of centralized files, known as "trackers," in the...

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