These trackers need to adopt distributed hosting tech, like IPFS or NetZero, so there are no single points of pressure/failure and the operator IP and identity have a reasonable chance of staying private from technical snooping.

Warrant Canary creator

On May 21, 2017 4:09 PM, "grarpamp" <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/05/17/1830228/popular-torrent-site-extratorrent-permanently-shuts-down
https://torrentfreak.com/extratorrent-shuts-down-for-good-170517/

ExtraTorrent is the latest in a series of BitTorrent giants to fall in
recent months. Previously, sites including KickassTorrents,
Torrentz.eu, TorrentHound and What.cd went offline.
Clearnet = Fail.