BT Tracker Legality Issue

[hawkburn]

Hello everyone, hope all are doing well.

A recent thread by another user regarding bittorrent trackers gave me a question of my own, that I have just thought about.

What is the legality standpoint on running your own BT tracker?

I know no-one has been sued, and I doubt anyone disconnected from their ISP. Though i am a more safe type guy.

So.. I've got everything I need to run a semi-small tracker (512k connection, 24/7 dedicated computer and so on), I just need some opinions of what you guys think.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Miniver]

it's your ass, but I'd think you should be fine. I just wouldn't host certain things. No Ms software, no music, no first-run movies. And if you plan to put your torrents up on suprnova expect to get slammed.

[crackerjacker]

it's your ass, but I'd think you should be fine. I just wouldn't host certain things. No Ms software, no music, no first-run movies. And if you plan to put your torrents up on suprnova expect to get slammed.

um ditto dat
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btw on a side note
there isnt one
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[hawkburn]

Actually, I don't plan on these being my torrents. So I wouldn't be hosting any data at all. But I know what you mean when you talk about no first run movies etc.

Another question: Does anyone know about how many connections a 6megabit(down)/512kilobit(up) DSL connection could handle before it was swamped beyond use?

[Ticalrida]

Hello everyone, hope all are doing well.

A recent thread by another user regarding bittorrent trackers gave me a question of my own, that I have just thought about.

That was Me

[origin]

HawkBun, 512 kbps is not much b/w sadly when it comes to bt trackers ur speed translates to like ~64 kb/s witch is no way neer the speed needed to track bt files I could take a shot in the dark here about how many connections ur line could handle but I wont Il just say that it wont be much. Also something to think about is that tracking not only consumes loads of b/w but tons of cpu usage of course the more users/tracked files the higher the load. hope this helps ya.

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[ASUmusicMAN]

Yeah, that's not much. I have 256 up and I when I run BT I can't run any other net applications because the connection goes crazy...maybe it's just me though

[method]

If you're just talking about being a tracker for a couple of hundred people on a daily basis... then I don't think it's too low...

512kbits/64kbytes up. - Avg. torrent size 30kbytes.

2k/xp = 1000+ sim. connections.
Win9x/ME = up to 500 sim. connections.

The only gray area is how much bandwidth is used after people have downloaded the torrent, I'm sure 100 users shouldn't cause much of a noticeable difference to things and I'm sure the main background traffic this causes would be lists of sources flying back and forth.

Each source only needs to take 6 bytes each (for the IP address and listening port number), plus object structures in protocol (an extra couple of bytes per IP address object), plus transaction structures in protocol (a few more bytes)... not a lot really.. there may be other variables but the data still shouldn't be that large.