Comment on How do "pirates" go about getting their username uploaded with a torrent? Like Fitgirl or NoSteam or something? How do they become big and famous? Can the average joe do this?

AnotherWastedHuman@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I guess I was asking how do these people, make the torrent say their username? And how do peers know it comes from them?

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  • mlg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I guess I was asking how do these people, make the torrent say their username?

    You just name the torrent with your username when you make it. They mostly follow an agreed common format to include all the relevant information in the torrent name like: Name.Of.Movie.Year.Resolution.Source.Audio.HDR.Codec-Group

    And how do peers know it comes from them?

    This is usually by trusting the tracker that indexes the torrent, which is usually only possible with private trackers.

    PTs have scrict requirements for publishing torrents on their tracker and will tie torrents to a user on their website so that it’s impossible for other users to impersonate a group/user release name.

    On public trackers, people can just lie since there’s no limits on publishing torrents and its up to the mod team to handle fake/bad torrents. Piratebay used to actually be pretty good at this with verified usernames but now I’m not so sure.

    The easiest way is to join a PT which will report the same torrent hash for the same torrent on a public tracker. If it’s identical to the PT torrent, that means its from the genuine group/user.

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  • radix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Every torrent starts with somebody. Someone repackaged the goods, or ripped the stream, or whatever. The original uploader can call the file(s) whatever they want.

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