Hacker News with Generative AI: BitTorrent

Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (2020) (jse.li)
tl;dr: What is the complete path between visiting thepiratebay and sublimating an mp3 file from thin air? In this post, we’ll implement enough of the BitTorrent protocol to download Debian. Look at the Source code or skip to the last bit.

Programming, BitTorrent, Go

184 points by stevenmh 39 days ago | 89 comments

'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' (torrentfreak.com)
Freshly unsealed court documents reveal that Meta downloaded significant amounts of data from shadow libraries through Anna's Archive. The company's use of BitTorrent was already known, but internal email communication reveals sources and terabytes of downloaded data, as well as a struggle with limited availability and slow download speeds due to a lack of seeders.

Meta, BitTorrent, Data Privacy, Shadow Libraries, Court Documents

19 points by HieronymusBosch 56 days ago | 0 comments

Transmission a Fast, Easy and Free BitTorrent Client for macOS, Windows, Linux (transmissionbt.com)
It's fast, it's extremely lightweight, and — even though it's available for a variety of platforms — it behaves just as you'd expect a Mac program to.

BitTorrent, Software, macOS, Windows, Linux

12 points by Bluestein 82 days ago | 0 comments

PrivTracker – Private BitTorrent tracker for everyone (privtracker.com)
PrivTracker allows to share torrent files just with your friends, nobody else.

Privacy, BitTorrent, Sharing, Community

190 points by prvt 83 days ago | 37 comments

QBittorrent: Open-Source, Lightweight BitTorrent Client with No Ads (github.com/qbittorrent)
qBittorrent is a bittorrent client programmed in C++ / Qt that uses libtorrent (sometimes called libtorrent-rasterbar) by Arvid Norberg.

Open Source, BitTorrent, Software, C++

73 points by Omega_Shift 183 days ago | 30 comments

Popcorn Time: multi-platform, BitTorrent client with integrated media player (github.com/popcorn-official)