Are there any known cases, where operators of trackers got convicted? Talking about trackers only, not the possibility to download the torrent file
Piratebay springs to mind. Having trouble finding sources for other outcomes. Oink admins got tried and got off, what.CD staff managed to dissapear into the ether.
That was a bit more than just a tracker backend
What if a bad actor acquires one of these once popular tracker domains? Could they somehow take advantage of it? For example, what if they make the tracker advertise a large number of “fake” peers that serve malware instead of the actual files? I only have a crude understanding of how BitTorrent works, so I’m not sure what kinds of protections, if any, it has against this type of attack.
The torrent’s id is, among other things, the hash of its contents so it’s impossible to serve different data
the most I think you could do would be log IPs for malicious or litigious purposes, I don’t think you could really do anything like malware injection in this case.
MPAA and other rights holders would be able to get list of ips for lawsuits en masse.
No, that is not possible.
