From a security standpoint, it means tons of people are requesting unencrypted info from random domains that are possibly no longer controlled by the original owners.

This is just random speculation on possibilities, but somebody could maybe figure out the IP of a suspected pirate for example, setup a dummy tracker, wait for that IP to show up, and then compare any requested hashes against a database of known torrents. How legal and useful in court this could be would depend on the country, but it is a weak point.

At the other end of the spectrum, somebody might find some kind of security vulnerability in a popular client’s tracker interface, and exploit that for malware purposes by setting up a fake tracker, but that’s a bit more of a stretch.

Check to see if your client is in Top X mode or something. Mine defaults to Top Day and nothing shows up, but switching to Hot or something else brings up posts.

Low effort pull, deletes the problem instead of putting the work in to correct it. /jk

7 open now, 2 closed

XD

Canada might start ignoring DMCA as a whole if the idiots in my government keep harassing them. Maybe that’ll piss off Hollywood and friends in a useful way…

(Just ignore me laugh weeping at the prospect that billionaires stabbing each other in the back is the only thing I can look forward to in my country now)

Should at least change the link to the GitHub repo then, as the site is dead and the domain could be picked up by somebody malicious.

https://github.com/CrankshaftForSteam/crankshaft

Great list, but remove Crankshaft. It’s basically dead now, and pretty much everything it could do is now possible in Decky, including video capture.

Yeah, that’s the extra stupid part. Not only limiting the amount of content people can see, but also the ads he needs money from.