2012-06-16, 17:13 | Link #1 |
AS Oji-kun
Join Date: Nov 2006
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scarywater.animesuki.com
I visited the AS Scarywater clone today in search of torrents for Dennou Coil. I know they are at Baka, but I can't point to anything there because it includes licensed content. Still when I downloaded the torrent file, it points to tracker.scarywater.net which, as you know, has been out of operation for about two years now. (The name still resolves to an IP address, but it's not pingable.) So is scarywater.animesuki.com only a clone of the listings without an affiliated tracker? If so, I don't understand what purpose the AS clone site serves.
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2012-06-17, 01:49 | Link #2 |
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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I *think* it was just to host the torrents themselves, in the hopes that the torrents could survive via DHT and other peer-to-peer methods even if the trackers were to die. I'm not sure if there's an easy way to mass-rebuild torrents with different trackers in them (though I suppose there might be).
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2012-06-17, 19:48 | Link #4 | |
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In the end, it may just be easier for people who have the source files to create new .torrent files, host them on a new tracker, and re-publish them somewhere so that the AnimeSuki site is updated with the new link. I assume that one of the reasons for hosting the archive (as opposed to letting the site die) was simply because people hadn't gotten around to doing that yet and this could buy us more time. Then again, this is all just me speculating out of turn, as I wasn't really involved with any of this stuff in particular.
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