Personal copy of the torrent site with a search on your computer

Against the background of incessant attacks on torrent sites and The Pirate Bay website located in the Down (the “most resilient Internet site” in the past), an interesting, though not perfect, solution appeared. A self-taught programmer, and at the moment a student Stephen Smith, has made a simple BitCannon personal server that works with dumps of torrent tracker databases. Anyone with minimal knowledge of downloading files and installing programs can download and install a personal copy of the torrent tracker, with the search and sorting of torrents. About this told us site TorrentFreak .

The project is distributed under the MIT license, it exists both in the form of source codes on github , and in binaries for almost all operating systems (including Windows ). To work using a database MongoDB. After installing the service, you need to type in the browser address 127.0.0.1 : 1337 / and you will see a web interface for working with the service. Steven says that the service works pretty quickly, for example, a search on the basis of 6 million torrents takes 10 milliseconds. “I want BitCannon to be useful to people, and I’m not going to make a profit from using it. I want people to use the service without any restrictions whatsoever, and so that everyone can take over the torrent site at the lowest possible cost. ” Detailed instructions for installing the server under Windows . The server is sent to the piggy bank to other ways to save information on a rainy day, about which I once wrote .

Naturally, the use of the server is not limited to a personal computer - the web interface allows anyone to raise their torrent site, accessible to all. At the moment, daily updated dumps of their databases are provided by Kickass torrents and Demonoid for use. The only problem with this approach is that without these sites the databases will not be updated. A fundamental solution to the problem with closing torrent trackers would be to create a serverless distributed technology that would allow adding new files and searching the existing base, in the manner of the once popular eDonkey or gnutella networks.