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Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

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Post by fsflover »

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…

It is not sufficient to serve the torrent files (or magnet links) anonymously: you will leak your IP unless you also download the actual files through darknet. However, Tor project does not recommend to use Tor for that: https://support.torproject.org/#misc_misc-4.

The actual solution is torrenting through I2P: https://geti2p.net. They support it out of the box and there are a few good trackers.

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

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Post by ur-whale »

DNS is the _one_ thing that needs to be based on bitcoin type tech so as to forever escape any attempt at centralized control.

Also, being able as an end user to easily choose where you get your name resolution from is essential.

The whole idea of root DNS servers is utterly broken.

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

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Post by mschild »

Y_Y wrote: post #58
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…

Vodafone have blocked RT in several EU countries, try it yourself: https://www.rt.com/africa/580875-france-niger-military-agree...

Not just Vodafone. But this happened because RT is one the EUs sanction list.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022...

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

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Post by franczesko »

ur-whale wrote: post #62

DNS is the _one_ thing that needs to be based on bitcoin type tech so as to forever escape any attempt at centralized control. Also, being able as an end user to easily choose where you get your name resolution from is essential. The whole idea of root DNS servers is utterly broken.

THIS

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

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Post by ipaddr »

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…

Where do I find Big Brother 3?

Most things are not available in your location where that is.

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

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Post by somethingreen »

r3trohack3r wrote: post #44
somethingreen wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to be a free speech absolutist, but now I believe phylosophical principles exist in service of humanity, not the other way around. If you consider that the goal of russian propaganda is to help Russia succeed in genocide of a 40 million nation, I think it should be fairly easy to handle some censorship, at least until genocide is stopped.

I think you cut to the core of it: genocide. Governments are entrusted with great power. Enough power to decide an entire class of people no longer deserve to live. Without checks and balances that hold the people we put in government accountable, that power will be abused. “It should be easy to handle some censorship” is where your point went off the rails. When you trust your government with the power to control th…

You are talking about hypotethicals and I'm talking about reality of today. If you let actual real innocent people die for your principles - you are not virtuous, the future you build and try to protect is not virtuous. It doesn't matter how correct your principles are.

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Post by boringuser2 »

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…

You're just "waking up" now?

Tech clearly engaged in election interference on behalf of Trump's opponents in 2020.

I don't like the man any more than anyone else, but that was a crime.

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

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Post by salawat »

r3trohack3r wrote: post #44
somethingreen wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to be a free speech absolutist, but now I believe phylosophical principles exist in service of humanity, not the other way around. If you consider that the goal of russian propaganda is to help Russia succeed in genocide of a 40 million nation, I think it should be fairly easy to handle some censorship, at least until genocide is stopped.

I think you cut to the core of it: genocide. Governments are entrusted with great power. Enough power to decide an entire class of people no longer deserve to live. Without checks and balances that hold the people we put in government accountable, that power will be abused. “It should be easy to handle some censorship” is where your point went off the rails. When you trust your government with the power to control th…

I have a question.

How big does a group of people acting in concert have to grow before we start slapping on the shackles because they've reached a mass indistinguishable from an act of governance?

Is it purely a factor rrqrqrawreeqEeaerrteutreeerqeeesrErxdrdrwtrsraArRerrrsrssrrerAars numbers? Anything below N is !government? Or is there a factor of impact? Can one person's decision effect so many and so much that we have to put on the brakes in spite of the fact it is just one person?

It's been no end of annoyance for me over the last few years, because I personally have had a fairly difficult time nailing down the sweet spot between collective action, and everyone needs to take a chill pill, cause this ain't right.

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

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Post by iraqmtpizza »

erfgh wrote: post #37
mdekkers wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

Russia Today as a television network is banned because you need a license to broadcast and that license can be revoked when it is found that the network broadcasts only propaganda that has nothing to do with reality. On the other hand, the website of Russia Today is not blocked though it does have some intermittent ddos problems.

you need a loicense to be on rumble lololol

Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

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Post by alternatetwo »

dizhn wrote: post #12
y-c-o-m-b wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been sailing the dark waters for everything - movies, tv shows, books, games, music, etc - since before the new millennium and I can tell you I've never heard of Canna Power until today. I usually get my content successfully off of the larger public torrent sites, so I guess there's no need, but it's good to have another bookmark in my arsenal! Definitely the Streisand Effect here.

It seems to primarily cater to a German speaking audience. That's probably why it isn't more well known. I'd never heard of it either.

I'm German and I've known of it 10 years ago ... and 10 years ago it looked like a site from 20 years ago. I didn't know it still existed either.
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