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I'm really worried that our current trackers are just a few single points of failure and we're at risk of losing (or at least greatly complicating) content discovery in torrent. What do you think about the idea of compiling all of the torrent files currently in circulation and sharing the collection over webtorrent, enabling self-hosted torrent search engines for everyone?

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But then, how will torrent indexers receive their ad revenue? That's why torrent indexers never release dumps.

Also for future reference, there's a difference between a tracker and an index. Trackers connect a peer to other peers with the same torrent, whereas an index just lists torrents. I'm not saying this to nitpick, but because it can get really confusing if you don't know the difference.

You're right, I meant indexers.

As for why they don't do that, I wouldn't be surprised if the answer was "legal reasons" or "lack of resources". "Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by lack of time"?

kickass used to release dumps. Maybe skytorrents can follow suit, since it is ad-free, no-JS.

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