Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS

Post by the_duke » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 3:23 PM UTC

traverseda wrote: post #11

segfaultbuserr wrote: post #4

The IPFS mirror really gives a substantial performance boost. In the past, the files had to be fetched from a tired server far away in Russia, the speed can be as low as 0.5 Mbps in my experience (depends on your ISP and connectivity), now it can be lightning fast thanks to P2P, 2 Mbps+, more than adequate to download a 100 MiB+ file. You don't even have to install IPFS (but you probably should, to maintain decentral…

In my experience IPFS is only fast when you're using it through something like Cloudflare's IPFS proxy (which is basically a caching proxy). I haven't found IPFS to be actually usable any time I've tried running a node myself. Is that unusual?

Post by elvis70 » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 3:41 PM UTC

dooglius wrote: post #12

A strange choice given that distributing copyrighted materials violates the IPFS Code of Conduct [0]. Why not use BitTorrent whose attitude toward copyright is much more in sync with libgen's? [0] https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/code-of-conduc...

Post by diggan » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 3:43 PM UTC

elvis70 wrote: post #23

dooglius wrote: post #12

A strange choice given that distributing copyrighted materials violates the IPFS Code of Conduct [0]. Why not use BitTorrent whose attitude toward copyright is much more in sync with libgen's? [0] https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/code-of-conduc...

Ah, thanks for mentioning that. If I understand well, it's a distributed filesystem but there is still an authority able to ban users or contents?

Post by warmwaffles » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 3:46 PM UTC

MichaelMoser123 wrote: post #8

does anyone know why libgen is still running over http? (But sincerely thanks for the site! it saved me on several occasions!)

Post by whimsicalism » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 3:48 PM UTC

Vespasian wrote: post #7

I'm hesitant to participate in IPFS in the context of libgen. Torrenting copyrighted materials (especially if you are distributing) can be quite expensive in some jurisdictions and I do not believe that IPFS is treated different than regular BitTorrent.