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Starfox444 · 30/12/2009 10:38 PM

Senseito7 Wrote:Nope-- that's just not the case.
Decentralized Peer Distribution through DHT means no need to host even .torrents anymore. MAGNETS will supercede them.. and are already available at TPB.

See this guy gets it!

Only the noobs use US based torrent sites because over there, anti-piracy laws and DCMA notices are known to actually do something.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Not sure if the magnet scheme really does this. Even if it does, all magnets are is a URI scheme. There needs to be some underlying application which implements things the right way...
There will still be a need for a central server of some sort to allow peers to find each other. It may be less centralised - eg a central server directing you onto a smaller "central server", but will ultimately need to exist in some form.

There isn't an underlying application in the way you suggest, from my understanding it's all based on using the DHT and the torrent client (eg Vuze or uTorrent) doing a bit of work.

Here's some copy pasta, if I'm wrong feel free to correct me though

Magnet links

Traditionally, .torrent files are downloaded from torrent sites. A torrent client then calculates a torrent hash (a kind of fingerprint) based on the files it relates to, and seeks the addresses of peers from a tracker (or the DHT network) before connecting to those peers and downloading the desired content.

Sites can save on bandwidth by calculating torrent hashes themselves and allowing them to be downloaded instead of .torrent files. Given the torrent hash – passed as a parameter within a Magnet link – clients immediately seek the addresses of peers and connect to them to download first the torrent file, and then the desired content.

It is worth noting that BitTorrent can not ditch the .torrent format entirely and rely solely on Magnet links. The .torrent files hold crucial information that is needed to start the downloading process, and this information has to be available in the swarm.

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