Is LibGen safe? I remember testing some of its mirror links on virustotal and saw some red flags, so I decided not to risk downloading.
Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS
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Re: Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
In case you are serious: Lawyer agencies are joining the swarm, recording IPs, write letters to ISPs and send you fines. That's very common for example in Germany. Edit: I didn't downvote you if it looks like that :)
> write letters to ISPs and send you fines. That's very common for example in Germany. And you have to pay the fines? That's nuts. In the US, you are pretty much as likely to get fined for torrenting as you are to get arrested for jaywalking (although without the racial disparity).
In the US the (very) common scenario is to get a couple warnings from your ISP and if you continue torrenting copyrighted material you will be dropped as a customer and banned.
Re: Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
This has been the state of IPFS for years now. The protocol and client haven't been developed to where they can work reliably in a real P2P scenario. IPFS only appears to work because most requests go strait to one of the big gateways which already has the content cached. Development of IPFS slowed to a crawl when most of Protocol Labs switched to working on Filecoin. It remains to be seen if either Filecoin or IPFS…
Yes, this is still the case.
For a file which is on exactly one other computer, you have about 45 seconds lookup time before the download can start.
Re: Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree. Actually in this day and age I think all information sharing should better be placed on darknets. I don't see the net advantage to anybody of being profiled constantly on clearnet. Naive question: is there such a thing as Bittorrent over I2P or otherwise anonymized decentralized file sharing?
I see it as 2 separate problems: data availability and anonymous transfer. IMO, you need 2 separate solutions because they are 2 different problems. IPFS solved the data availability problem because you can incentivize storage miners to make your data available. This is something new, IMO. Accessing it anonymously is possible with an extra protocol layer.
For instance, using TOR to download books from libgen should be pretty safe, no?
Re: Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS
#55I think such materials should better be placed to darknets protecting the privacy of users and seeders, e.g., to I2P.
If you take IPFS's model and add inherent anonymity, that's exactly what Freenet is. (To this day I'm confused about why IPFS is popular while Freenet isn't.)
I've not tried Freenet for a few years, but every time I did it was very slow; e.g. browsing basic HTML sites hosted on Freenet was quite painful. IPFS can serve streaming video, and host massive archives like Wikipedia.
Also, Freenet actively seeks out data from the network to store locally, to give plausible deniability to users (there's no way to tell if something is locally cached because the user requested it, or whether the client fetched it automatically). IIRC this can be disabled by limiting oneself to a whitelist of peers (preventing network chatter that might reveal Freenet's presence). IPFS will only cache what's requested, so it's more predictable and useful for building infrastructure (e.g. hosting assets for a normal Web site); and presumably leaner on data requirements too.
IPFS isn't really competing with Freenet IMHO; it's competing with HTTP and BitTorrent.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
IPFS gateways are similar to Tor exit relays, they just route the traffic to the public internet. Tor exit relays still exist, and haven't been DCMAed out of existence so far. One could also imagine IPFS over Tor.
You're almost right. The IPFS gateway nodes also cache the content. IE, they are both storing, hosting, and sharing to other IPFS nodes.
how can one validate that the cached version is indeed bit equal to the one stored within ipfs?
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#57Is book piracy a major concern for the publishing industry? Many avid readers that I know are happier buying the physical book because they like the feel of reading from a book. Have others found this to be true as well? I wonder if younger folks are less susceptible to this feeling.
Most people don't know how to pirate books but yeah it is. I got a lot of university textbooks this way.
Re: Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS
#58Is LibGen safe? I remember testing some of its mirror links on virustotal and saw some red flags, so I decided not to risk downloading.
Yes it's just ebooks.
Re: Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS
#59Is book piracy a major concern for the publishing industry? Many avid readers that I know are happier buying the physical book because they like the feel of reading from a book. Have others found this to be true as well? I wonder if younger folks are less susceptible to this feeling.
Many avid readers I know are happy with physical books but also happy to use an e-reader for purely pragmatic reasons (easier to carry, custom font settings).
As for piracy if the places I see libgen and it's kind referenced are any indication then this isn't about just any readers but about students, professors etc. who want to access scientific publications.
Re: Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS
#60Is LibGen safe? I remember testing some of its mirror links on virustotal and saw some red flags, so I decided not to risk downloading.
what red flags did you see?