Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #157: Music Piracy.
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#Piracy #music #riaa #youwouldntdownloadacar #fail #musicpiracy #bittorrent #limewire #illegaldownloading #didyouknow #trivia #funfacts #facts #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

#qBittorrent 5.0.5 has been released (#BitTorrent / #Torrent / #Qt / #libtorrent) https://qbittorrent.org/

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/

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

That stupid app keeps prompting me that P2P connections have been blocked from loading. Please upgrade to a paid plan.

#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.

• And I'd rather subscribe to the #LKML and see my inbox getting hosed than using any shitty #SaaS!

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. ...
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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.

I just read that nps.gov erased Harriet Tubman from a page about the Underground Railroad. I want not only to #archive copies of websites, but to use #cryptography to prove that this was the content fetchable from the real page at a date in the past. #provenance Why aren't there FAQs about how to do this already? I've just seen sciop.net which appears to be using both #BitTorrent and #RDF to advantage; and #ArchiveTeam appears to be doing distributed fetching at scale with their ArchiveWarrior thingy. But how should anyone trust that I don't tamper with the pages I fetch and archive? Or what if I just want free backups, so I pass off my photo archive as part of #memoryhole 'd DEI policies? And where's #ipfs or #dat or #hypercore ?

are there any bittorrent clients that support bep-052 and offer a cli?

Dites les gens, vous savez où transmission-daemon stocke les fichiers .torrents des torrents en cours de seed ?
C’est pour faire de la modif en masse de trackers…
#Linux #Transmission #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.

https://torrentfreak.com/director-uses-takedowns-to-remove-pirate-bay-docu-tpb-afk-from-youtube-250323/

The director of the Pirate Bay documentary "TPB-AFK" is issuing take down notices to get the movie removed from YouTube, because he believes the site as a radicalizing platform full of hate. The director states that the film, which is creative-commons licensed is still available plenty of other places, and suggests BitTorrent.

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.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/600-000-customers-affected-South-Korean-ISP-allegedly-installed-malware-9783736.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon