Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

torrentfreak.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 151 posts

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

#21

Post by rightbyte »

stevefan1999 wrote: post #14
derefr wrote: post #6

Question: why are torrent sites not generally run as a Tor hidden-site backend (that can therefore be accessed through any existing Tor public-web gateway, rather than needing to set up its own proxies) plus an IPFS-hosted SPA frontend (that can therefore rely on any IPFS web gateway, and can then point as many arbitrary human-readable DNSLink names at that IPFS CID as it wishes)? Is it just because the web piracy co…

Because it was veeeeeeeeery slow to me. As someone in East Asia, you are lucky if you can load a hidden service under 10 seconds. First we should briefly talk about how hidden services work. You have a very long address encoding the portions of a HS public key, which is stored in a special directory (HSDir), and due to the P2P nature of Tor, that basically becomes a DHT/Torrent Tracker which draws parallel to a DNS s…

10s? Sounds like the v56 days. If the site is designed for it, with alot of info on each page, it should work fine but I guess most are not?

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

#22

Post by ecf »

thefurdrake wrote: post #3

The harder Sony screams, the better things are going in general. This effort was pathetic and ineffective, just like every attempt Sony has made to combat piracy. If only they spent all that effort and money improving the user experience when accessing their products instead of something doomed to failure.

it’s entertaining to watch Sony throw these tantrums after one of their prime complaints with the Activision + Microsoft merger was how it might give Microsoft exclusivity for CoD while forgetting how much they love exclusivity for Playstation titles.

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

#23

Post by ransackdev »

I don’t know this case or the site, I’m only commenting on this because, shouldn’t we be very concerned that anything can be silenced, globally, online? Where does it stop if we do it? Who gets the say? Who watches them? You see what I’m getting at?

Google started self censoring “Russian propaganda” and everyone was so distracted with the war itself that nobody seemed to take notice of what gears that type of thing set in motion. Sure, they’ve probably been doing stuff like that the whole time, but it was the first I’d ever seen them announce they were altering results publicly and giving us things they deem acceptable.

We need to wake up

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

#24

Post by RobotToaster »

_8j50 wrote: post #5

Firefox should natively support OpenNIC and other alternative DNS providers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root This will help Mozilla gain marketshare by being the goto browser for anyone wanting to access non-mainstream sites. But I admit, that also makes firefox hostile to corporate environments. If only firefox obeyed windows system/gpo/registry settings like chrome. I have never seen a non-tech c…

I've been using OpenNIC as my primary DNS for a while.

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

#25

Post by jacquesm »

ecf wrote: post #22
thefurdrake wrote: post #3

The harder Sony screams, the better things are going in general. This effort was pathetic and ineffective, just like every attempt Sony has made to combat piracy. If only they spent all that effort and money improving the user experience when accessing their products instead of something doomed to failure.

it’s entertaining to watch Sony throw these tantrums after one of their prime complaints with the Activision + Microsoft merger was how it might give Microsoft exclusivity for CoD while forgetting how much they love exclusivity for Playstation titles.

It isn't called 'Sony Entertainment' for nothing.

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

#26

Post by midasuni »

_8j50 wrote: post #5

Firefox should natively support OpenNIC and other alternative DNS providers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root This will help Mozilla gain marketshare by being the goto browser for anyone wanting to access non-mainstream sites. But I admit, that also makes firefox hostile to corporate environments. If only firefox obeyed windows system/gpo/registry settings like chrome. I have never seen a non-tech c…

Why would to want my applications to use what my operating system does? I control both, but typically I have more control over the OS, and importantly it’s a single location to configure.

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

#27

Post by mdekkers »

ransackdev wrote: post #23

I don’t know this case or the site, I’m only commenting on this because, shouldn’t we be very concerned that anything can be silenced, globally, online? Where does it stop if we do it? Who gets the say? Who watches them? You see what I’m getting at? Google started self censoring “Russian propaganda” and everyone was so distracted with the war itself that nobody seemed to take notice of what gears that type of thing s…

> Google started self censoring “Russian propaganda” and everyone was so distracted with the war itself that nobody seemed to take notice of what gears that type of thing set in motion.

I recently found out that all of Russia Today is banned and blocked throughout the EU, and whilst I appreciate it’s pure propaganda, I don’t appreciate being told what I can and cannot read/watch/hear.

It’s entirely against everything I was told to believe we stood for, and I find it deeply offensive ans disturbing.

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

#28

Post by sgift »

mdekkers wrote: post #27
ransackdev wrote: post #23

I don’t know this case or the site, I’m only commenting on this because, shouldn’t we be very concerned that anything can be silenced, globally, online? Where does it stop if we do it? Who gets the say? Who watches them? You see what I’m getting at? Google started self censoring “Russian propaganda” and everyone was so distracted with the war itself that nobody seemed to take notice of what gears that type of thing s…

> Google started self censoring “Russian propaganda” and everyone was so distracted with the war itself that nobody seemed to take notice of what gears that type of thing set in motion. I recently found out that all of Russia Today is banned and blocked throughout the EU, and whilst I appreciate it’s pure propaganda, I don’t appreciate being told what I can and cannot read/watch/hear. It’s entirely against everything…

Do you mean rt.com? I just accessed that cesspool and Germany is part of the EU, so .. nope. Not banned.

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

#29

Post by brightlancer »

pmontra wrote: post #19

Isn't everything on YouTube for free? Then downloading is as simple as any software that extracts audio tracks from a YT video.

Youtube serves the audio and video separately; yt-dlp (the successor to youtube-dl) can download only the audio part, so there isn't any extraction necessary.

Honestly, I don't understand "piracy" much anymore -- almost everything folks want is legally available on a streaming service for cheap or no-charge. If something has been censored or banned (or the owner refuses to sell it anymore), then that's a different story, but legal services are cheap and easy now.

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

#30

Post by Larrikin »

brightlancer wrote: post #29
pmontra wrote: post #19

Isn't everything on YouTube for free? Then downloading is as simple as any software that extracts audio tracks from a YT video.

Youtube serves the audio and video separately; yt-dlp (the successor to youtube-dl) can download only the audio part, so there isn't any extraction necessary. Honestly, I don't understand "piracy" much anymore -- almost everything folks want is legally available on a streaming service for cheap or no-charge. If something has been censored or banned (or the owner refuses to sell it anymore), then that's a different st…

Streaming services WERE cheap and easy. Now all the content providers are starting their own crappy streaming services and you end up paying more than you would for cable, when pretty much everything they offer used to be available through one or two services tops.

I expect piracy to rise until there is a Spotify of TV/movies

Post reply on HN