well, you could run your own instance: https://github.com/btdigg-org/dhtcrawler2

Am I missing something or is the source not actually available in that repo? I only see the compiled .beam files

Source code is available under the “src” branch.

what a strange way to use git

> This git branch maintain pre-compiled erlang files to start dhtcrawler2 directly. So you don't need to compile it yourself, just download it and run it to collect torrents and search a torrent by a keyword.

Ah, that is perfect. Thank you.

Well, one can write a bot that defeats recaptcha. Trivial, once you know what to do.

If "one" can write a bot that defeats recaptcha, what is the point of recaptcha? I think extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I presume by "defeat" they mean "use one of the libraries that allows you to pay $0.10 for each query, to route your CAPTCHA to people in developing countries who will solve them for you." Which is economically viable for individual use-cases, but still economically unviable for spambots.

It is much cheaper than 0,10 USD per captcha.

Another technique is to enable the accessibility mode, which is a speech-to-text prompt and is supposedly easier to bypass.

It would still limit "most" =p

Spot on!