The Hydra Project: An Anti-Piracy Proof BitTorrent Tracker

[gamepin126]

The Hydra Project, THP for short, is developed with privacy, anonymity and survivability in mind. One of innovative features of the project is to make an OpenID for users of private BitTorrent sites so their login information and upload/download ratios can be shared across different websites. The torrents can also be shared among different trackers. This ensures that user ratios and uploaded torrents will not be lost if for some reason one of the BitTorrent trackers ceases to exist.

Shanti Braford, the developer of the project explained to TorrentFreak: “The idea is that a group of admins can get together and form a sort of distributed set of private BitTorrent trackers. bacon.org, eggs.com, ham.net and sausage.fm can all get together, share user databases, torrents, upload/download ratios, etcetera. If eggs.com gets raided, the rest of the sites are still alive and the torrents people have downloaded will still work because they’ll be associated with multiple tracker URLs.”

THP will be one of the most private and anonymous BitTorrent trackers, something that most users will absolutely appreciate. For example, no email addresses will be collected, the IPs will not be stored (only memcached) and .torrent files will not be connected to users. There is even an option for the administrator to delete all data via a memcached shutdown in case the server loses its connection to the network, which will happen if there’s a raid.

The tracker script is developed in Ruby on Rails. “The code is about 90% there,” Shanti told us “I’ve kept it very simple and rudimentary, but functional. If any PHP coders are interested perhaps it could be ported over.” I would encourage all developers who are interested in the project to take at the project page and THP’s Sync API wiki.

If THP lives up to its expectations the Hydra will be more flexible and stronger than ever.

The Hydra Project: An Anti-Piracy Proof BitTorrent Tracker | TorrentFreak

[fire1337-fire1337]

When is it going to come out? or is it already out?

[cala4]

Originally Posted by fire1337-fire1337

When is it going to come out? or is it already out?

more like how long before the server gets shut down and the owners arrested

[fire1337-fire1337]

Yeah, your right. it would probably take a miracle for them to not be arrested.

[Pete_Zahut]

Hooray! take that anti-piracy companies

Before I opened the thread I thought this was about creating real hydralisks

[CrazyGerbilEater]

and the torrent evolves, YAY

ima have to get me on of those

[FlamingAsterix]

The continued evolution of the BitTorrent protocol is very very encouraging for those site owners who had started to get a little worried after such a large string of high-profile shutdowns. I'm glad to see that the copyright industry hasn't come close to winning yet.

[gamepin126]

This isn't the BT protocol.

[Mobilus]

It doesn't make it all that much more secure if your IP is still visible in the swarm while dling or uling.

[fire1337-fire1337]

the above post is true

[IversonAli3]

Originally Posted by fire1337-fire1337

the above post is true

Alright, you are obviously not catching on here.
Stop posting, you have received an infraction.
I've already deleted another one of your spam posts in this thread because I really do understand your mental handicap, but I dont really care anymore. In fact, almost every post youve made outside the flame board after coming off mod preview is spam.

On topic.

To mobilus, the IP is not associated with the user beyond the tracker(in the swarm) in THP. After that point something similar to the Machine ID is used to identify users. The only terminal which sees your IP is the tracker, and they arent stored on any permanent media. Basically provides the users with complete anonymity as no one can trace the data.
It doesnt provide any extra protection for the individual trackers, just the users. Although it does provide stability and acts as a deterrent, due to the fact that the trackers equally share the burden.
Anti-piracy organizations can no longer single out the largest BT sites to take down.

[Mobilus]

Can't people like the RIAA use a client to get into a torrent's swarm and then start getting all the IPs of people in the swarm with screenshots and then eventually go after their ISPs since most ISPs deep scan packets and will back up what the RIAA recorded on that date and at that time?

[gamepin126]

See, then they'd actually have to contribute to the problem.

[Mobilus]

Originally Posted by Pinnah

See, then they'd actually have to contribute to the problem.

Isn't it possible for them to create fake torrent data once they get the hash that the original torrent used, or is that still too tough?

[gamepin126]

hash

You can't connect to people to determine IP's unless you actually upload something and request more connections.