YTS torrent tracker part of new anti-piracy scheme
People seem to think this is some sort of betrayal, but anyone could have done it. The whole point of trackers is to allow anyone to get a list of peers who have the same torrent. If anything, this gives me a startup idea: archive.org, but for torrent swarms. Scrape public torrent sites, grab all their torrents, for each torrent connect to their associated tracker and grab their peer list periodically. You can even try connecting to them and grab a few bytes to confirm they're actually uploading. Now you have a list of IPs known to have committed copyright infringement. Sell this list to copyright trolls years/months later for $$$.