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Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

#281

A few other folks have mentioned this, but a (monthly?) dump of the database, offered as a torrent link on the site would be fantastic. Not only would it enable offline searching, but when the inevitable take down shows up, folks can still continue to search the database.

7 more votes to get it done.

+1

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

#282
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7 more votes to get it done.

It's really not an auction site. Set up a way to handle feature requests.

Don't worry, unless they set up a vote to "banish all US Copyright protected works" the inevitable RIAA/MPAA pressure will sort out the project by itself. I'm not delusional to claim Torrents are without legitimate purpose - they are - and I'm also not delusional enough to believe hosts/developers are powerless to address piracy of sorts.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Are you really complaining that a site that is dedicated to copyright infringement might be misusing a trademark? I have a feeling that is the least of their legal concerns.

Trademark law is pretty fierce, and sites like these should generally want to minimise the legal attack surface.

Never underestimate the allure of digital heroism. I get a similar vibe as Aurous with this one. For profit or not it'll bear the brunt of an angry industry.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

#284
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I wrote a BitTorrent client that specifically only downloads the parts you need to perform some operation: https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent

But can it look inside archives? If not, then mainstream clients can already do what you mention.

Reading the page, it sounds like they're talking about the "torrentfs" mounted filesystem component, where read requests will download just that part of the file.

So theoretically, you could open the archive in a GUI, extract the file you want, and the only part it would download would be the archive header/file listing and the part of the archive corresponding to the file you wanted.

Of course, this wouldn't work for tarballs or solid RARs, but for regular archives it could conceivably work.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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I see that you are based out of India. How do you plan on dealing with law enforcement issues? (Great site, btw).

Hosting a torrent site is completely LEGAL. Since we are acting just like google "a search engine".

Well that hasn't worked out well for other sites so that is why I was curious as to how you will handle this differently.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

#289

This is blazing fast, congrats! However, I am concerned by the use of IN domain. Indian govtt frequently asks ISPs to block sites to avoid piracy. How do you plan to avoid getting blocked?

we only have https version

Well even PirateBay had that... and they can just block DNS requests to the website. You should probably set up a hidden service on Tor.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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post #159

Suggestions: 1. Enable whois privacy via Gandi 2. Hide your server IPs behind Cloudflare 3. Ensure the site is written such that it is trivial for yourself and others to use alternate domain names

I thought whois guard wasn't allowed by .in? I'm using Namecheap and it isn't possible for my .in but I'd like to add it if some other registrars allow this. Anyone have to registrar to recommend besides gandhi?

Gandi is the best. Although you pay for their no bullshit, and sometimes they won't let you do (questionable) things that other registrars allow.
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