Even if the traffic of the torrent protocol is peer-to-peer, there have to be central nodes managing all that unfortunately. This is why DMCA notices are also successful with torrent providers. Without anyone providing that central node, no torrent works.
antianarchist@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Even if the traffic of the torrent protocol is peer-to-peer, there have to be central nodes managing all that unfortunately. This is why DMCA notices are also successful with torrent providers. Without anyone providing that central node, no torrent works.
One of the major weaknesses of bittorrent.
jdr@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Perhaps some sort of Distributed Hash Table?
esc@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
DHT was created like 20 years ago just for this purpose, they work just fine.
antianarchist@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Fck, my bad, you are absolutely right. Fixed my comment.