Update. "#SciOp is part of Safeguarding Research & Culture (#SRC). The bits must flow: let us resurrect the ancient art of #Bittorrent to ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear."
https://sciop.net/
are there any bittorrent clients that support bep-052 and offer a cli?
@GrapheneOS here's a wild idea that is almost certainly not practical... #BitTorrent?
It's funny to see low-key arms races like this between #vendors and #opensource developers. It makes you realize that "oh shi, someone's fighting back! GET 'EM!"
#Peertube being based on #bittorrent technology is hilarious - with historic context in mind. It's finally being used for it's original intent.
Is digital piracy ethically justifiable?
I was curious about ZeroNet again today. ZeroNet was a #P2P web project from the 2010s along similar lines to I2P (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P) and #Tor hidden services. The idea of hosting dynamic webpages in a completely P2P fashion, like torrents, remains super cool and appealing to me. In fact, at one point the #BitTorrent company had a similar proposal (https://www.bittorrent.com/blog/2014/12/10/project-maelstrom-the-internet-we-build-next/).
The ZeroNet website (https://zeronet.io/) is still up, but the project hasn't been updated in five years as per the GitHub repo (https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet). Someone was maintaining a fork at some point, and at other times I heard that ZeroNet was (now?) insecure, although I know no details. Certainly anything P2P isn't anonymous by default.
I found this question (https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet/issues/2749) about the creator of ZeroNet. Disturbingly, this article (https://www.newsbtc.com/news/sam-maloney-creator-of-morphis-and-dpush-shot-dead-by-london-police/) about a different developer killed by the police under unusual circumstances was shared.
My impression was that ZeroNet actually worked (works?) to some extent. Why aren't projects like this being funded? We need censorship-resistant ways of communicating online, after all.
George Santos appeals Jimmy Kimmel case, two Danish men sentenced to prison over BitTorrent use and Filipino rapper sues politician.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/03/25/3-count-changing-tactics/
600,000 customers affected: South Korean ISP allegedly installed malware
A Korean ISP is said to have deliberately installed malware on customer computers in order to throttle the use of file-sharing services.
Frommer Legal 2025: Die Abmahnwelle lebt – diese Werke stehen im Fokus
#Filesharing #Rechtssachen #Abmahnung #BitTorrent #FrommerLegal #p2p #Urheberrecht https://sc.tarnkappe.info/32debf
@katja nodds in agreement #NSAbook got caught #leeching and literally.configuring their #BitTorrent nodes.not to seed a single bit of data, thus be a #ValueRemoving #NetNegative.
VisionOnTV: A Lost Future of Grassroots Video
Nearly 20 years ago, we built something radical. #VisionOnTV wasn’t just another platform, it was a #4opens movement. A bold attempt to break free from corporate-controlled media and give people the tools to create and share activist-driven, alternative television. We weren’t waiting for permission; we were building the future we wanted to see. Before #YouTube became the advertising surveillance monolith it is today, we had a different vision. One where video wasn’t just disposable […]https://hamishcampbell.com/visionontv-a-lost-future-of-grassroots-video/
@chpietsch @nichtich @hvdsomp I think the joke is on the programmable vs. legal definition of "accessible". You might have a license for some "FAIR" data, but if it's with one of the major publishers it's unusable anyway. Whereas with #bittorrent everything is much easier. Everyone is resigned to this as the supposedly "transformative" agreements have failed to make publishers more open, so access equals SciHub/AnnasArchive for the unwashed masses.
heise+ | Die rechtlichen Konsequenzen illegalen Streamings
Zig Filme exklusiv bei zig Anbietern – die Fragmentierung des Streamingmarktes führt Nutzer zu illegalen Plattformen. Das kann strafrechtliche Folgen haben.
### ngosang/trackerslist | #trackerslist
Updated list of #public #BitTorrent trackers
QUESTION
does anybody have any tips on how to deal with stalled #bittorrent downloads from @internetarchive? these are all public domain movies from the 1910s, 20s and 30s and they stop 99.5 or 99.9%. some seem to be complete at 99.9% but most don’t work.
bittorrent can be very frustrating like that. i force checkout and download and nothing happens.
I can't believe more people don't torrent, considering how expensive and numerous subscriptions have become. The bar for feeling like a badass among the normies should not be this low.
I've been running the #Kiwix seeder scripts on a small seedbox (~4 TB) for a month now. It's been a charm.
https://github.com/kiwix/seeder/blob/main/README.md
Can't wait to get more leechers!
Want to help to spread the latest ZIM files using #bittorrent? It never has been easier to create a super-seeder of (part of) our full catalog of offline archives! Everything is automated and you'll be kept in sync with the Kiwix library! You just need a GNU/#Linux, a bit of storage & bandwidth. Checkout https://github.com/kiwix/seeder #FOSS #EDTECH
