Dynamic tracking is the bane of private torrent sites; at the same time, it is a boon to those trying to use crappy public sites, as well as those who are impatient and think more connections means more faster automatically.
DHT (Distributed Hash Table) is an addition to certain BitTorrent clients that allows them to work without a tracker. What this means is that your client will be able to find peers even when the tracker is down, or doesn’t even exist anymore. It allows the swarm to continue as normal without a tracker. You can also host torrents without a tracker.
I can remember a few times that dynamic tracking has helped me finish something that would have been absolutely unfinishable otherwise. An average example would be a decent quality vhs rip of rare as hell, out of print shit, scraped together at 1.9k/sec from one dude wherever over a week.
With so many big trackers disappearing, the idea that DHT is helping hundreds of thousands of people finish torrents they couldn’t have otherwise is not only hilarious, but it also sort of makes you have to reconsider laws that can no longer be enforced.
