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zokiboy on Feb 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: btjunkie says goodbye

Isn't there a way to create a database of torrents without using http protocol, by relying only on peer2peer network? It would be much harder to shutdown each peer individually.

icebraining on Feb 6, 2012 [–]

That's what Tribler[1] claims it does. I've never used it.

And while it doesn't use bittorrent, eMule has had completely decentralized file searches using the Kad[2] network for years now.

[1]: http://www.tribler.org/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kad_network

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