Re: [Tails-dev] 3rd-party Torrents

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Author: Kill Your TV
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To: tails-dev
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] 3rd-party Torrents
On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 02:27:14 +0000 (UTC)
intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:

> DistroWatch is distributing a modified Tails .torrent and announcing
> it on another tracker than the one we're using, "to give back to the
> open source community":
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150309#torrent
>
> Not sure it's a good idea, but not sure we're in a position to ask
> them to step, given the recent instability of the tracker we use.



The torrent is modified to add an additional tracker. The one we use is
still there. The infohash is the same so technically the torrent is the
same as well, just with slightly modified metadata.

torrent file.............: tails-i386-1.3.88e7bc1124dcfc44.torrent
directory name...........: tails-i386-1.3
infohash.................: 88e7bc1124dcfc44a42cc54c5a5635d634c605fe    <-- same as "ours"
directory size...........: 909.9 MiB (954,133,281 bytes) (pieces: 3640; piece size: 256 KiB)
files....................: 2
created by...............: mktorrent 1.0
creation date............: 2015-02-24 00:17:06
announce.................: http://linuxtracker.org:2710/8c96fdec1c86838508143e3e939e669f/announce
announce-list............: http://linuxtracker.org:2710/8c96fdec1c86838508143e3e939e669f/announce|http://torrent.gresille.org/announce