“The tool does not analyse activity within the BitTorrent swarm itself. Instead, it analyses how data moves through torrent sites, such as index sites and tracker sites.”
A 56-year-old accused of uploading around 1,000 NHK recordings over five years, plus three more people referred to prosecutors. CODA says its tool watches index and tracker sites rather than the swarm, then refuses to explain further because explaining would spoil the next case. Everyone hardening against peer monitoring was defending the wrong layer. The metadata around the torrent gave them up, not the transfer.