Maybe you can find this code useful http://sourceforge.net/p/torrentloader...HEAD/tree/ its old but still working for 99% of torrents, only some torrents created with rare or uncommon clients arent supported
Yes sadly many sites dont care about the hash and use amateur scripts to manage the torrent files, which causes millions of ghost torrents with no seeds
I remember coming to this site since the theme was Ika Musume.
Cant believe 3 years went by so fast. Im also happy this site is still alive. The cleanest, fastest free links uploaded to good sites with great download speed.
Looks like you're right - announce isn't a part of the info section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_..._structure I couldn't remember that particular detail. Though I do recall seeing the same torrent with different BTIH - maybe something was rearranged or the whole torrent was repackaged.
You can add and remove trackers and webseeds leaving the hash untouched, it changes only if you touch the file informations like folder or file names, I did it many times with torrentloader v1.5, it's the same method used by torrage and torcache when you upload a torrent, the php script automatically adds some default trackers like istole or publicbt etc, the main hash doesn't change
1. I think it's fair to say that there's safety in numbers. There's a good reason why not many torrent users have been sued. Extortion campaigns are different, but I feel that they're more based on fear rather than effective if you refuse to comply. Regardless, there's no evidence of this occurring with anime. I'd say that direct downloads are probably "safer" than torrents, but I think it's a bit much calling torrents unsafe.
2. I don't think seized logs are as useful as you think they are. Logs are typically periodically pruned unless the service has some reason to keep them. Then there's the further issue of mapping IPs to subscribers from the ISP, assuming the ISP actually keeps logs of these and that they're willing to hand over this information easily. Finally, an IP doesn't actually prove you did it, eg if you run a proxy or open wi-fi access point. Going after individuals is typically not particularly attractive, since you can't get a lot of money from them, there's a lot of them out there, and it can result in negative publicity at times. I'm not familiar with what exactly happened with those file hosts being taken down, however I haven't heard of any users being sought after due to data seizures. Also you don't really know what a host necessarily does with information you send them. They could have servers all over the world and/or point to services from anywhere etc, so simply not being based in the US doesn't necessarily mean a lot. Not hosting in the US is predominantly a decision of the website operator to protect their interests, and generally not driven by what users want. Where services such as Youtube, which hosts plenty of infringing content, are fine with hosting in the US due to the legal might behind them.
There's so far been no evidence that CloudFlare, or any other similar service, has been sought after to reveal visitors' IPs, and if they ever are, Tibb's site certainly wouldn't be the first on the hit list.
1. Take torrents out of the conversation. Anyone who uses torrents without a seedbox has either no concern or no comprehension of their exposure, or how their liabilities differ from those who download only.
2. The common wisdom taken from the collapse of Hotfiles, MU and Fileserve was that no one should download from US or Japanese based services. And these days no one does. They don't exist anymore, for good and compelling reasons. But now here's a new change to consider: Services based in Europe and elsewhere may now have their data filtered through a US based company. That seems worth some reflection. There may, after all, be such a thing as "irrational complacency", to match your happy use of "paranoid".
3. I personally believe those who download only have little to fear, probably. The music industry went down that road in the US for a while, but gave it up.
I have no idea what CloudFlare will do, but they may only be interested in keeping summary data rather than full logs, which could make it harder to correlate information. Or maybe not - you can never really know what a 3rd party does...
Yes, scraping off trackers only matters for torrent sources and is irrelevant to DDL. What I meant is that there's not much reason to go to all the effort through the courts when there's plenty of users to target off trackers. Think about it - if your goal is to, say, get some users to extort settlement fees from, where would you go looking?
Anyway, I take your points, though I personally think that you needn't really worry. If you are paranoid, I understand, but you may wish to consider doing more to mask your online activity. After all, you don't know what your ISP is logging, and the NSA probably has everything anyway.
Thanks for the answer and link --very informative.
As I read it, CloudFlare keeps the raw data for 4 hours right now, but would like to open options for the customers to learn more about their visitors but they will warn us when they make such changes. So some current comfort with deep foreboding for the future.
"Srape off trackers" --that's a Nyaa answer, not a yukinon one, right? Yukinon is sort of a special case, hence my concerns.
I believe the slowness with the theme has nothing to do with the server but with your computer instead. Because the list of files is long and with what that page is doing with the list causes the slowness. What I do and it works really well is to first sort the list by name. Once that is complete I use the sidebar to scroll up and down to find the files I need. It is important NOT to put your curser over the page untill you find your file, if you do it will slow you down again. With folders make sure to open them in a new tab or window leaving the main list as it is if you are going to look for more stuff. With files I right click and save as.
If downloading is slow I think it's because Yuki is getting popular in the community ;)
In theory, yes, but: - a whole bunch of anime download sites, including Nyaa, use it - it's a bit harder to mount a case against a reverse proxy provider than it is against a file sharing site - if what they claim is true, not much is logged anyway - grabbing user IPs via subpoena seems horribly inefficient when you can just scrape them off trackers - and as such, you'll find that it's not often done
Personally I'd say you have little to worry about, if having your IP handed over to "authorities" is your concern.
Tibb-san, Pardon my ignorance, but would you using CloudFlare mean that a US-based company, answerable to US-based court subpoenas, would be recording our IP addresses and usage of your site? I'm thinking "Hotfiles" or "MU" happening again.
Servers don't get slower after sending lots of data. 2TB/day isn't a lot in the big scheme of things either. CloudFlare will likely make things slower because it makes the route to the server less direct, although the effect is probably negligible.
Unfortunately, you may need to do a bit of investigation to figure it out, eg check CPU/RAM usage, disk/bandwidth speed, etc. Hard to give useful info, but hope that helps.
Yeah, I does seem a bit slower, I restarted the server (I haven't done it in a month or so). This past week the server used 12.5 TB, so I guess it's a bit much to handle 1-2 TB a day for a single server? I will probably add cloudflare to the server some point soon (I lack free time, especially with Destiny in my hands). It should help with the speed and maybe the responsiveness. A multi-server setup would be another idea to combat this.
That 1 TB reflects the size of all files in the directory, it doesn't compute the size with all the folders (if it did, it would be crazy slow).
Even though I don't think the subgroups you mentioned gets a lot of downloads, there might be a few people who would like it. I could always research on how to limit connections, throttle speed, simultaneous downloads, etc. but like above, I lack time (although it's always good to know).
Currently the script checks whether the TokyoTosho link refers to a Nyaa page, and if not, checks the BTIH (BitTorrent Info Hash). This works if the exact same torrent exists at both sites, but slight modifications, such as adding a tracker (or if the index that the torrent was uploaded to makes some changes), then the BTIH becomes different. Probably not a big issue overall, although there's some other complications, like selecting what info to display (since it could be different between sources), handling cases like where it gets removed on one source etc.
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That means they are still unde ddos, might be a good sign actually, it is motigating I guess, well at least this denies the conspiracy theory, good luck to nyaa
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