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It is possible to run ipfs behind tor. And I'd argue it is the right way to do so.
IPFS wont run via Tor, DHT is UDP based and Tor doesn't support UDP by design. Did my research last weekend, anybody more knowledgable, please correct me if I am wrong. Possibly it should run fine via I2P or Yggdrasil.
The first result was a guide on how to do it.
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In all likelihood the book you are looking for is available as a .pdf The "best" format for reading books is epub, as it is an opwn format which does not try to adapt a paper format. There are many free readers available for it. >And do I really want evidence of piracy sitting on my hard disk? If your house gets raided by law enforcement, charges for minor copyright infringement should be of absolutely zero concern t…
> The "best" format for reading books is epub Not really. Practically, for many pirate ebooks you can find in both ePub and PDF you better choose PDF because it looks and reads like the original while the ePub version probably is almost garbage with broken tables, code quotes etc. As a format FB2 is better than ePub because it separates the content from the view while ePub mixes them heavily. I usually convert ePub t…
Problem is that as soon as you need some typographical or layout feature beyond what is natively supported by FB2 you're out of luck.
With ePub you still have a chance of manually creating some custom effects before having to give up and fall back to a PDF.
Now granted, for your typical run-of-the-mill novel it's usually not a problem, because those rarely do anything non-standard with regards to layouting or typography.
However some books do play around with their layouting and/or typography, sometimes quite heavily. House of Leaves e.g. would be impossible to properly reproduce in FB2, and since that particular book goes really overboard in terms of playing around with the page layout, I think even as an ePub it'd be quite a feat to successfully pull it off.
IPFS devs, take heed. This is a very dedicated and determined user. You should make this very obvious hot path a lot easier for users who are not this determined.
Instructions are not easy. I want a out of the box solution to help without having to deeply dig into the internals. Something like archive team warriors: http://warrior.archiveteam.org/ For example, > Bitswap vs DHT I don't care. I want to help without having to care about these details. > Launch one or multiple IPFS servers (see previous blog post; we currently use 4 servers in Docker). what? how? where? link? no o…
> If this is all too involved for you, or you only want to seed a small subset of the data, then it might be easier to pin a few directories: 1. Use a VPN. 2. Install an IPFS client. 3. Google the “Pirate Library Mirror”, go to “The Z-Library Collection”, and find a list of directory CIDs at the bottom of the page. 4. Pin one or more of these CIDs. It will automatically start downloading and seeding.
It would be nice if we could read these books online rather than having to download a file and find some sort of reading app for it. Like, what am I supposed to do with an "azw3" file? And do I really want evidence of piracy sitting on my hard disk?
In all likelihood the book you are looking for is available as a .pdf The "best" format for reading books is epub, as it is an opwn format which does not try to adapt a paper format. There are many free readers available for it. >And do I really want evidence of piracy sitting on my hard disk? If your house gets raided by law enforcement, charges for minor copyright infringement should be of absolutely zero concern t…
Whereas the Books section of the Internet Archive has a consistent format and displays them all in-browser, it's so much more convenient and user-friendly.
This archive should aim for the same.
Still no meaningful promises around the safety or effectiveness of this. Seems like this will get many people a love letter from their ISP. Not worth the hassle with no idea of if this will work in even the medium term.
> Seems like this will get many people a love letter from their ISP. Many countries just don't care. A few EU ones and USA might, but once you go into slightly poorer territories, noone cares about foreign copyright. So, treat it like you would treat seeding a pirate bittorrent.
And for the record, z library gets its books from libgen? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it was just a frontend?
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Copying is privacy and piracy is still an issue for the host.
*piracy sorry
Using an untethered copy is indeed more privacy-friendly than using most garbage publisher portals and offerings. And yes, piracy can be a problem for the host if she has insufficient opsec.