Post-Pirate Bay, a Federated Tracker Network Emerges
Summary
Take the Pirate Bay’s tracker servers away, and sites like Mininova would be left in a dry spell, with users unable to download pretty much anything at all. Dutch researchers estimated earlier this year that the Pirate Bay is responsible for tracking around 50 percent of the world’s publicly accessible torrents. The folks behind the Pirate Bay have been responding to this growth by adding more servers to the mix, to the point at which there are currently nine machines exclusively dedicated to tracking torrents. They established a sync feature that instantly sends out all the necessary data via UDP multicast within the Pirate Bay’s LAN. Admins of OpenBitTorrent.com and the yet unnamed third-party project are currently working on setting up an encrypted connection between the two trackers with the goal of syncing their data, just as if the machines were part of the same LAN setup.
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