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zyx321 on July 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

Can't you just look up the hash on DHT? Since hash is the only mandatory field in a Magnet URI.

tinus_hn on July 15, 2020 [–]

Of course but connecting to a peer to peer network and looking it up doesn’t sound ‘trivial’ to me.

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