As much as I'd like torrents to be more tolerated, there is a difference in that the torrent sites contain the .torrent files which contains all the necessary info to download files. ie, They're supplying more than just a link.
There is legally and effectively nothing different about the two. They both give you what you need to get the file. The extra layer of indirection of having to get peers from DHT rather than a tracker doesn't matter.
A torrent file only contains a hash checksum of the data and a tracker url (basically a "link" to the tracker). A magnet has the same hash but uses the DHT to find seeders while a torrent file looks for seeders connected to the tracker.
Personally I don't see that as being materially different to a magnet link.
The only difference is the DHT is acting like a kind of super-tracker.
r3trohack3r|3 years ago
Example is btdigg which exclusively crawls and indexes magnet links from the DHT
Gigachad|3 years ago
brokenmachine|3 years ago
Personally I don't see that as being materially different to a magnet link.
The only difference is the DHT is acting like a kind of super-tracker.