Why don't pirates switch to I2P? I know it's slow, but doesn't the speed go up the more high-bandwidth users and relay operators there are? Or am I missing something? Is it just inertia that's keeping everybody on non-I2P-routed BitTorrent?
Invisible Internet Project (I2P)
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#12I think it would be cool to have sort of... Call it IFN - invisible family network or many VFLAN - virtual Family LAN. Some way of networking just your family members.
Zerotier is great for this.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Roughly it's like Tor (though I think the transport is not necessarily like Tor), except it's closed. You can only communicate with others on the I2P network. Some I2P users may choose to operate an "outproxy" and provide Internet access but it's not built into the network or software. What is (or was, it's been awhile) built in is a torrent client. It's also written in Java and the router web UI was pretty snazzy fr…
There is a C++ implementation that is pretty nice: https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd
There was also Kovri (a fork of i2pd made by the Monero project) that sadly appears to be dead now.[1] It could have greatly increased the number of nodes on I2P.
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#14How does one find services available on I2P?
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#15Why don't pirates switch to I2P? I know it's slow, but doesn't the speed go up the more high-bandwidth users and relay operators there are? Or am I missing something? Is it just inertia that's keeping everybody on non-I2P-routed BitTorrent?
The issue I have with i2p is that it enforces all clients to be exit nodes, too. It makes the peer system stronger, but also legally vulnerable.
[update: this isn't true anymore, there's a config flag now available that fixes this and outproxy=false is defaulted. See [1]]
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#16Can someone summarize the differences between I2P and Freenet?
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#17Why don't pirates switch to I2P? I know it's slow, but doesn't the speed go up the more high-bandwidth users and relay operators there are? Or am I missing something? Is it just inertia that's keeping everybody on non-I2P-routed BitTorrent?
The issue I have with i2p is that it enforces all clients to be exit nodes, too. It makes the peer system stronger, but also legally vulnerable. [update: this isn't true anymore, there's a config flag now available that fixes this and outproxy=false is defaulted. See [1]] [1] https://geti2p.net/en/faq#exit
The issue I have with i2p is that it enforces all clients to be exit nodes, too
This is not true. Seriously, you could at least read i2p faq before explaining other people how it works.
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#18Why don't pirates switch to I2P? I know it's slow, but doesn't the speed go up the more high-bandwidth users and relay operators there are? Or am I missing something? Is it just inertia that's keeping everybody on non-I2P-routed BitTorrent?
The issue I have with i2p is that it enforces all clients to be exit nodes, too. It makes the peer system stronger, but also legally vulnerable. [update: this isn't true anymore, there's a config flag now available that fixes this and outproxy=false is defaulted. See [1]] [1] https://geti2p.net/en/faq#exit
Even if you were an exit node (see sibling), is this really so? Have eg Tor exit nodes been held legally responsible for eg copyright infringement? Sounds highly counterintuitive.
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#19How does one find services available on I2P?
There's a few I2Psites that track other I2Psites (and share hosts.txt files). You can subscribe to these (attaching *.i2p domains to their respective long base32 links). By default stats.i2p and a few others are in your address book.
There used to be some I2P-only search engines but I'm not sure if they exist anymore.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The issue I have with i2p is that it enforces all clients to be exit nodes, too. It makes the peer system stronger, but also legally vulnerable. [update: this isn't true anymore, there's a config flag now available that fixes this and outproxy=false is defaulted. See [1]] [1] https://geti2p.net/en/faq#exit
Even if you were an exit node (see sibling), is this really so? Have eg Tor exit nodes been held legally responsible for eg copyright infringement? Sounds highly counterintuitive.