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How come there isn't more torrent based technology
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You rapidly end up with a freeloader issue.
not if you give benefits to seeder, just like private trackers
The trackers themselves are centralized. The .torrent file you download from a private tracker has a unique private ID tied to your account, which the torrent client advertises to the tracker when it phones home to the announce URL, alongside your leech/seed metadata.
Don't see how this is much different to today's way of doing things where pretty much everyone is a freeloader to the centralized server. The major benefit is that it doesn't have to be just one server anymore.