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by rschachte 1408 days ago
it’s mostly porn! I was researching some DHT crawler work recently and came across some interesting papers. Here’s a super fun high level read on someone who crawled the BitTorrent distributed hash table using a Sybil attack:

https://defcon.org/images/defcon-18/dc-18-presentations/Wolc...
1 comments
beeboop 1408 days ago
Why do people use a VPN for porn torrents? Do porn publishers send nasty letters to ISPs like the movie studios do?
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rschachte 1407 days ago
Yes. It’s copyright in the same way.
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