Tribler wants to make torrent trackers obsolete

The latest version of the Bittorrent client Tribler is equipped with a decentralized search function. This makes it possible to track down .torrent files without using a torrent tracker.

Although Bittorrent is a p2p protocol, central servers have so far been used to make available the torrent files needed for sharing. However, such servers, such as The Pirate Bay, are often the target of actions by copyright holders, so they are often suddenly offline. To make the transfers possible even without these servers, the authors of Tribler have it buddy castprotocol has been developed, whereby the clients can search for torrent files together.

According to Johan Pouwelse, the leader of the Tribler project, Buddycast has been worked on for many years. Now that it’s running for the first time in real life, it seems to work quite well, like that message Torrent Freak. The amount of content is even less than with the servers, because it is limited to content from those who also use Tribler. However, it is expected that this volume will increase considerably.