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The method for controlling registration used among many private trackers is an invitation system, in which active and contributing members are given the ability to grant a new user permission to register at the site, or a new user goes through an interview process. The Pirate Bay operated one of the most popular public trackers until disabling it in 2009 due to legal trouble, and thereafter offered only magnet links.Ī private tracker is a BitTorrent tracker that restricts use by requiring users to register with the site. Public or open trackers can be used by anyone by adding the tracker address to an existing torrent, or they can be used by any newly created torrent, like OpenBitTorrent. Public vs private trackers Public trackers Since the creation of the distributed hash table (DHT) method for "trackerless" torrents, BitTorrent trackers have largely become redundant however, they are still often included with torrents to improve the speed of peer discovery. Clients that have already begun downloading a file communicate with the tracker periodically to negotiate faster file transfer with new peers, and provide network performance statistics however, after the initial peer-to-peer file download is started, peer-to-peer communication can continue without the connection to a tracker. The "tracker" server keeps track of where file copies reside on peer machines, which ones are available at time of the client request, and helps coordinate efficient transmission and reassembly of the copied file.
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In peer-to-peer file sharing, a software client on an end-user PC requests a file, and portions of the requested file residing on peer machines are sent to the client, and then reassembled into a full copy of the requested file. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī BitTorrent tracker is a special type of server that assists in the communication between peers using the BitTorrent protocol. ( August 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it to make it understandable to non-experts, without removing the technical details. This article may be too technical for most readers to understand.