OpenBitTorrent - An open tracker project

**Stellar** · 07-04-2009, 06:34 AM

http://openbittorrent.com/

From the site:

Just to make it clear so people sending DMCA takedown notices understand:

We do not have any content.
We are not a bittorrent site, we are just a tracker, we can not see what content is behind an info_hash.
We don't have any torrent files.
We can't give you any IP addresses in any other way than normal tracker usage - the software don't support it.
We can't verify any claims when we have no data other than the info_hash.
We can't block info_hash keys from being registered with the tracker.
We don't have any logs or ways to trace previous connections, there is just not enough disk and IO resources in the world for that (at least not at our operational budget).
And most importantly, we have no time.

So what should you as a content owner do? Contact the indexing site where the torrent download originated from and ask them nicely to remove the listing and the .torrent file!

Do you think that this will be a coming trend for torrent trackers as they attempt to dodge litigation and/or other legal issues?

**The_Martinator** · 07-04-2009, 07:24 AM

Originally Posted by Stellar

Do you think that this will be a coming trend for torrent trackers as they attempt to dodge litigation and/or other legal issues?

If it proves succesfull it might. Tbh, I don't know if this could work or not, but it's worth a try.

**harshytkage** · 07-04-2009, 08:18 AM

it's different at least,but sounds like a nice idea though, you're own tracker...

**whiteboy** · 07-04-2009, 09:39 AM

sounds cool.

**flashback3r** · 07-04-2009, 09:44 AM

sounds interesting actually... ^^

**Stellar** · 07-04-2009, 11:28 AM

It should mentioned that this appears to be connected to one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay, Fredrik Neij (TiAMO).

**VinX** · 07-04-2009, 01:03 PM

well its like the public tracker but without a torrent site ..

**sez** · 07-04-2009, 08:32 PM

if you look at the announce urls of torrents from public torrent sites am sure you'll see plenty of similar trackers.e.g http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6669/announce
Hope the guy didn't apply for copyright.