PublicBT Tracker Set To Patch BitTorrent’s Achilles’ Heel

Courtesy TorrentFreak  Sun, 07/12/2009 - 10:44

For years the majority of all BitTorrent users have relied almost exclusively on the services of The Pirate Bay.

Even those who never actually visited the site have done so, since more than half of all the publicly available torrents were tracked by the Swedish tracker.

The Pirate Bay’s prominence has been the Achilles’ heel of BitTorrent. If the tracker should fail today, hundreds of thousands of torrents would begin to slow down significantly or stop working entirely....


 

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