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Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by RobotToaster »

malikNF wrote: post #25
lordofgibbons wrote: post #3

A note of caution for those unfamiliar with how IPFS works. It's very similar to BitTorrent with how content distribution happens. Your local node will broadcast which content it has available (downloaded). If you access a piece of content you automatically become a host for it so you still need to use a VPN if you live in a country where you can get sued.

I think your post needs to clarify this is true only if you use the ipfs client to access things hosted on ipfs. Accessing ipfs.io/ipfs/ doesn’t do anything you mentioned. Its just a gateway. You could take the link on the main submission. And replace ipfs.io with any (most, because some are offline) of the links here https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/ And it will still work.

Tangential, but does anyone know what's happening with the JS IPFS implementation? when I tried it a while ago it seemed broken.

Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by Barrin92 »

TekMol wrote: post #58
lyu07282 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

torrents work fine without having a monetary incentive, this misconception of the blockchain crowd really has to die its killing real decentral solutions

I said "incentive". You made it "monetary incentive". 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?

>Everything ever written to the Bitcoin blockchain is still available

This isn't useful for 99% of stuff and pushing every video and music file on earth through a global state machine with the performance characteristics of an Atari from the 80s would render the thing inoperable. The entire Bitcoin network has a bandwidth of like 1mb every 10 minutes, the total size of the blockchain is half a TB in total, people torrent more porn in the time it took me to type this.

Maintaining a global, complete history of transactions only ever made sense for one problem, double spending, and is utterly useless for sharing files.

Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by tredre3 »

r3trohack3r wrote: post #46
isoprophlex wrote: post #43

Aren't these magnet links useless without trackers?

No, most BitTorrent clients support a Kad based DHT for discovering peers.

Pure DHT peer-discovery alone isn't that great but keep in mind that the magnet points to a .torrent file, which usually does contain a list of traditional trackers for the file.

Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by Zopieux »

mike31fr wrote: post #74

https://rarbg.tw still works for me. I don't get it, isn't Rarbg supposed to be down?

Gotta love the deceptive patterns :-)

  Currently RARBG primary domain is:
  https://rarbg.to (actually links to https://rargb.to, note the bg/gb)

Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by activiation »

remram wrote: post #52
mmastrac wrote: post #2

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!

IPFS is distributed but not anonymized, so you can send abuse requests to people's ISPs to take content down (like with torrents). 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.

Use Tor?

Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by robbintt »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #3

A note of caution for those unfamiliar with how IPFS works. It's very similar to BitTorrent with how content distribution happens. Your local node will broadcast which content it has available (downloaded). If you access a piece of content you automatically become a host for it so you still need to use a VPN if you live in a country where you can get sued.

Is it recommended to run my own proxy then, and is there any boilerplate project out there? I could also use OpenVPN, but seems like I just want to proxy ipfs, not my whole connection.

Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by r3trohack3r »

tredre3 wrote: post #76
r3trohack3r wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, most BitTorrent clients support a Kad based DHT for discovering peers.

Pure DHT peer-discovery alone isn't that great but keep in mind that the magnet points to a .torrent file, which usually does contain a list of traditional trackers for the file.

Why isn’t it great? You’re the first person I’ve met that has made this assertion.
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