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Look if you want to find isos to Linux (wink wink) off the web just use Usenet.
Why when Torrents work fine and are free
I was curious how this works and then I saw the sqlite requests in the network tab. It's amazing to see what we have access to these days -- SQLite over HTTP over IPFS to provide a giant, censorship-resistant database!
The HTTP part is also not censorship-resistant. ipfs.io has a DMCA process, and they could also be asked to reveal the IP of users.
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What do you mean ended their life? Like they killed themselves because someone pirated their software?
Yes. I know two persons that did.
What was the precipitating cause? Lost revenue?
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Why when Torrents work fine and are free
I think the best arguments I heard about it was, unlike torrents, the availability is longer. Because the "nodes" store them generally for years at minimum UpTo even decades.Downloads are as fast as your broadband connection, just regular SSL communication, hence no VPN. Don't have to join private trackers, and prove you are worthy enough to be allowed to download.
Looking for some recent (last week) content doesn't appear. What's the cutoff here for the DB?
[0] "RARBG Torrent Files (QUICK SORTED) [v0.1].7z"
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Now IPNS is a thing. Months ago it just didn't work, at least for me, now something is happening in the way IPNS works.
can you elaborate what IPNS is and how it helps with getting newer torrents up there?
IPNS is essentially DNS over the IPFS network. IPNS domains point to a specific IPFS file (or a set of files, like we see here). IPNS domains are signed with a private key; when you want to update your IPNS entry, you add your new content to a new IPFS file and then you update the IPNS entry by signing it with a public key.
I was curious how this works and then I saw the sqlite requests in the network tab. It's amazing to see what we have access to these days -- SQLite over HTTP over IPFS to provide a giant, censorship-resistant database!
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It's censorship resistant if enough nodes mirror the sqlite file I guess. Is there any incentive for nodes to do so? Is it possible to see a statistic about how many nodes mirror it?
torrents work fine without having a monetary incentive, this misconception of the blockchain crowd really has to die its killing real decentral solutions
What do you mean with "torrents work fine"? Do you have any statistics on the lifetime of torrents?
Everything ever written to the Bitcoin blockchain is still available and massively distributed. It seems very unlikely anything will ever get lost during our lifetime. So I would say that is an example that monetary incentives do work?
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Why when Torrents work fine and are free
I think the best arguments I heard about it was, unlike torrents, the availability is longer. Because the "nodes" store them generally for years at minimum UpTo even decades.Downloads are as fast as your broadband connection, just regular SSL communication, hence no VPN. Don't have to join private trackers, and prove you are worthy enough to be allowed to download.