Demonii refuses to be censored after being forced to axe over 10,000 torrent hashes

Demonii, one of the largest BitTorrent trackers on the Web recently had to ban over 10,000 torrent hashes because of copyright-infringements. This is despite not actually offering torrents for download itself. Deomnii connects you to people who share their files on other sites like The Pirate Bay. Torrent hashes are used to verify the data that is being transferred. Every .torrent file that’s downloaded includes information on the size, type of file it is and what’s included in the download, so each of these are checked against the hash first to make sure it’s the correct file. According to TorrentFreak,…

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