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| Dec 5, 2014 | World’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker Goes Down | Founded in 2009 after The Pirate Bay shut down its tracker, OpenBitTorrent soon grew out to become a key player in the BitTorrent ecosystem. Running on the beerware-licensed Opentracker software, the standalone tracker offers a non-commerci... |
| May 23, 2014 | Public BitTorrent Trackers Ban Piracy Monitoring Outfits | OpenBitTorrent, PublicBitTorrent and Istole.it are the largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet, coordinating the downloads of tens of millions of file-sharers every day. The non-commercial services don’t host or link to torrent files th... |
| Feb 26, 2014 | World’s Largest BitTorrent Trackers Suffer Prolonged Downtime | OpenBitTorrent and PublicBitTorrent are two non-commercial BitTorrent trackers running on the beerware-licensed Opentracker software. Neither service hosts or links to torrent files and both are free to use by all torrent users. The service... |
| Jul 6, 2013 | Top BitTorrent Trackers Serve 30 Million Peers Across 4.5 Million Torrents | BitTorrent has come a long way since it was first announced to the public on July 2nd 2003. During the past decade the protocol has established itself as the dominant file-sharing technology, used on a daily basis by millions of people all ... |
| Apr 23, 2013 | The Pirate Bay Now Accepts Bitcoin Donations | In a few months time The Pirate Bay turns 10 years old, a milestone that will be celebrated with a massive party in the Swedish city of Stockholm. All this time the BitTorrent site has relied on banner advertisements and has never accepted ... |
| Jul 29, 2012 | BitTorrent Trackers Cease Strike After Protocol Improvement | OpenBitTorrent (OBT) and PublicBitTorrent (PBT) are two non-profit BitTorrent trackers running on the beerware licensed Opentracker software. Neither tracker hosts torrent files, but they do coordinate the downloads of millions of BitTorren... |
| Jul 16, 2012 | Largest BitTorrent Trackers Go Offline in Protest | OpenBitTorrent (OBT) and PublicBitTorrent (PBT) are two non-profit BitTorrent trackers running on the beerware licensed Opentracker software. Neither service hosts or links to torrent files and both are free to use by all BitTorrent users. ... |
| Aug 10, 2011 | Data Centers Crippled By BitTorrent ‘Broadcast-Storm’ | Up until a few days ago the three 1337x BitTorrent trackers were coordinating downloads of more 40 million peers. But from one day to another, the trackers simply stopped working. As it turns out, the operator of 1337x was forced to abandon... |
| Jun 14, 2010 | The World’s 5 Largest Public BitTorrent Trackers | The BitTorrent landscape has changed dramatically in the past 12 months. The two largest BitTorrent trackers today didn’t exist a year ago, and the top tracker of last year has shut down. The upside is that all these changes went by relativ... |
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FAQ about OpenBitTorrent.com
What has the press written about OpenBitTorrent.com?
Parsers VC has collected 14 articles mentioning OpenBitTorrent.com, among them “World’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker Goes Down” (Dec 5, 2014) and “Public BitTorrent Trackers Ban Piracy Monitoring Outfits” (May 23, 2014).
Is OpenBitTorrent.com still active?
OpenBitTorrent.com is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 6, 2015.