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A years-long investigation just unmasked a major torrent pirate, the how remains unclear (www.techspot.com)
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Kyoto Prefectural Police have arrested a man accused of uploading copyrighted TV programs to the torrent site Nyaa, following an investigation that began several years ago.

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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I wonder if they're using any of the *arrs to do this since its a faster response time to get into the peerlist as quick as possible before anyone can complete the initial download.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    I doubt it. It's likely custom code that's better suited to the task.

    The *arrs watch RSS feeds to find new torrents. It wouldn't be difficult to write a script that pulls the RSS feed and polls the tracker to collect data on the initial seeds/peers. They might use an actual torrent client for some of the data collection, since I'd guess they have to prove the person is actually uploading, rather than just being connected but not actually uploading or downloading.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Sounds to me like they just own one of these trackers. Just like the NSA controls nodes on the tor network.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    I think that'd make sense. The trackers for public torrents are often at seemingly random domain names and nobody really pays much attention to who runs them.

    The US military created Tor, so I don't doubt the US government still runs a lot of the nodes.

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