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arc) TIL you can use torrents to seed+distribute s3 files. I wonder if anyone has written the reverse, an s3 frontend backed by torrents. That strikes me as useful for fedi media caching 
(though perhaps the deduplication of hashes/IPFS would suit better)
https://carltonbale.com/how-to-create-and-seed-a-torrent-download-on-amazon-s3/
carltonbale.comHow to Create and Seed a Torrent Download on Amazon S3 – Carlton Bale
Why does Proton VPN block P2P transfer (BitTorrent) on their free plan? (Is it because it can be misused unlimitedly?) 
Not cool; Can't use it even if I wanted to do some legitimate download over BitTorrent 
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@Data_is sollte weil #BitTorrent ist #dezentralisiert und schnell und spart Bandbreite!
Abmahnfalle 2025: Diese Games führen zur Abmahnung durch RKA Rechtsanwälte
#Filesharing #Rechtssachen #Abmahnung #BitTorrent #PLAION #rkaRechtsanwälte #STALKER2 https://sc.tarnkappe.info/5ca894
TARNKAPPE.INFO · Abmahnfalle 2025: Diese Games führen zur Abmahnung durch RKA RechtsanwälteAbmahnfalle 2025: RKA Rechtsanwälte mahnt 2025 erneut Gamer wegen Filesharing ab. Betroffen sind Spiele wie S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 und viele mehr.
#discord IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!
It's worse than any #IRC, #Mumble or even the old #TeamSpeak & #Skype for that matter.
It combines the disadvantages of #Forum, #paywalled #documentation, #chat and #voicechat with 0 redeeming qualities (unlike #Zulip & Mumble & #XMPP+#OMEMO) it's just an #InformationBlackhole!
I'm shure fecking #dread has better moderation and I'd rather use #MicrosoftTeams + #Slack cuz those at least have proper #moderation tools.
Case in point: I'd rather #SelfHost all my comms infrastructure than to ever use something like Discord or any other #GDPR-violating SaaS that is just enshittification.
I'd rather recommend people to instead choose a tool that does everything but horrible to go with multiple smaller & good tools
- Public Chat? IRC!
- Group Voicechat? Mumble.
- #Documentation? #mkDocs-material.
- 1:1 Chats? XMPP+OMEMO.
- E2EE Group Chats? #deltaChat.
- E2EE Calls? #WebCall.
- Filehosting? #IPFS, #BitTorrent, oshi.at, etc. ...
- …
Check @alternativeto and @european_alternatives for options.
I'm staying at a household where they play for Disney+. But we can't watch the MCU Spiderman movies, because some other company has the rights to movie adaptions of the character. So we're now expected to pay for 2 different streaming services to binge the MCU in order?
Best argument for #BitTorrent ever.
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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/
sciop.netSciOp - Public Information PreservationPreserving Public Information
are there any bittorrent clients that support bep-052 and offer a cli?
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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.
Search your feelings. You know it to be true. The world, and Internet was a better place, when most of our bandwidth was spent sharing TV shows on Bittorrent. #piracy #bittorrent
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.
en.wikipedia.orgI2P - Wikipedia
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.
heise online · 600,000 customers affected: South Korean ISP allegedly installed malware
Frommer Legal 2025: Die Abmahnwelle lebt – diese Werke stehen im Fokus
#Filesharing #Rechtssachen #Abmahnung #BitTorrent #FrommerLegal #p2p #Urheberrecht https://sc.tarnkappe.info/32debf
TARNKAPPE.INFO · Frommer Legal 2025: Die Abmahnwelle lebt – diese Werke stehen im FokusFilesharing bleibt riskant: Frommer Legal verschickt 2025 erneut massenhaft Abmahnungen für aktuelle Filme, Serien und Musik.
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@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/
hamishcampbell.comVisionOnTV: A Lost Future of Grassroots Video – Hamish Campbell
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Hamish Campbell
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@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.
c't MagazinDie rechtlichen Konsequenzen illegalen StreamingsZig Filme exklusiv bei zig Anbietern – die Fragmentierung des Streamingmarktes führt Nutzer zu illegalen Plattformen. Das kann strafrechtliche Folgen haben.