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Originally Posted by Andurian
Ooh, got me there. Or, rather, you would have if you knew what a tracker does. A tracker is merely a pointer to content, it contains and distributes no content itself. What else is primarily a pointer to content? Hint: Rhymes with "oogle."
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I know what a tracker does. What you are saying would make sense if the tracker could disappear and the torrent could still go.
Here's a random torrent from The Pirate Bay
1 person (not even a seeder) is using DHT
85 people are connected thanks to The Pirate Bay's tracker.
If the tracker ate shit, that torrent would be gone. Same with 85% of the torrents on The Pirate Bay.
If The Pirate Bay decided not to host the .TORRENT files on their servers along with closing the tracker (basically becoming what you are trying to pawn them off as), everything that is on The Pirate Bay that isn't going through a third-party torrent site/tracker would be dead.