shish_mish@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoReddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios sayarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1184arrow-down133cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldpiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
arrow-up1151arrow-down1external-linkReddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios sayarstechnica.comshish_mish@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square39fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldpiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
minus-squarefar_university1990@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoBut torrents are not hosted on any website, bittorrent is p2p.
minus-squareHawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoTorrents are metadata files, they’re absolutely hosted on websites. They only describe how your BitTorrent client can initiate the p2p connection, they obviously don’t have the actual data that’s shared, only info about that data.
But torrents are not hosted on any website, bittorrent is p2p.
Torrents are metadata files, they’re absolutely hosted on websites.
They only describe how your BitTorrent client can initiate the p2p connection, they obviously don’t have the actual data that’s shared, only info about that data.