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While DHT is indeed decentralized, a central tracker is still preferred since it can quickly give an authoritative list of peers (rather than a probabilistic one).

Private sites tend to disable DHT anyways, since it's much harder to detect cheating without central trackers.

The important thing is that trackers are easily decentralized, since they're a per-torrent URL.



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