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How does a private torrent tracker associate the downloader with my account?
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this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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Your tracker url in your downloaded torrent files has a unique passkey in it that allows access and associates activity with your account.
This is why you cannot share .torrent files. The contents of the .torrent files are usually fair game to make another torrent of though!