MultiTracker

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Multi-trackers can be classified differently by two completely different types of people in the bit torrent network. The fist type of person is mush happier since a multi-tracker allows them access to a larger swarm. The second type hates it, because they may have released the file as a closed tracker, yet it does not stay closed as someone else may upload their .torrent tracker to a non closed site therefore making it open to the public. If you have ever downloaded anything with your bit torrent client and seen on the “general” tab that you are not allowed to “leech” only seed, that is because that is a closed tracker. Since you may have a 2nd tracker file in the list, you still make connections. Eventually, you will make a connection to someone who has access to that closed tracker and then make connections to the people on that closed tracker’s list through that one client.

Multi-trackers also take up more bandwidth as they require more time connecting to the internet to update the list of people with that file. But for those who download multiple files simultaneously, this should not be as big of an issue since you already have many, many, many connections already.

Those who like the multi-trackers also greatly out number those who prefer the closed trackers. Believe it or not, some people actually pay for access to a closed tracker site to download that same exact file that you are downloading for free. In general it is these people who get upset about the multi-trackers, but in most cases they are either new to the bit torrent network, or are loyal to that particular site.

Bit torrents are about sharing information freely amongst others, to pay for this right, is against what the bit torrent protocol was even designed for. This is ok though, some people just prefer it, while others believe that information that was intended to be shared freely, should always be shared freely. Especially in the case of copyrighted material. If you have a bit torrent client to download the latest movie for free, then why pay for it. If you are paying for access to a closed torrent site, then you might as well go to the nearest Wal-Mart and buy the movie yourself. It just seems… well odd that someone would pay for something they can get for free.

This of course is in no way the sponsoring of stealing intellectual data, but rather, bringing a point across, that things that are offered to the rest of the world to download through the bit torrent client, are done so in a manner that is considered to be shared freely, and therefore paying to access these files is sort of backwards.

The Multi-tracker is here to stay and so is the DHT dynamic hash key. They are all helpful to the spread of freely shared data amongst the largest community in the world today.

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