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That's All Folks: KimCartoon's 120m Visit Piracy Caper Ends in a DMCA Disaster. (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It seems like the big weakness of torrents is that if the front-end goes down, then no one can get new torrents anymore, making the front-end an obvious target due to its centralized nature. However, has anyone considered making an activitypub-powered torrent tracker/download site? Kinda like a hybrid between soulseek and BitTorrent. The sites in the network all get torrent information from each other so you have a billion front-ends. Good luck stopping that if they all sync their databases together.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

DHT has already been around for years.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I've been running butmagnet for a while. It's def interesting lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This might be of interest

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There are plans to add more curation by adding support for manual postings and federation. That would allow people with similar interests to connect, acting more like a trusted community. However, this is still work in progress.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Bringing back Gnutella.