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Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records

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Re: Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records

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Post by Ambolia »

pizza wrote: post #2

Yup. Calling it. This is the future, may not seem like it to everyone but this is a part of actually new and extremely useful, passively scalable technology. Imagine (good) unkillable zombie databases- so long as the name of a piece of data is known (its hash).. someone, somewhere, might make it possible for you to answer your query, without even needing to setup a server setup.. that’s _it_! Not to mention it might…

The current internet is terrible at archiving anything it creates. Dead links, impossible to find videos if they get deleted for some reason, news articles that get memory-holed, easier to find archives of paper newspapers than of online newspapers... That's why so many people tweet screenshots of other tweets rather than linking them directly, the network relationship may break at any moment, so better just to post an image rather than link information.

In the Napster/Torrent era once I found a video, document or audio I was interested in, it was very easy to find again without having to worry about archiving it myself.

Re: Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records

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Post by Beltiras »

pizza wrote: post #2

Yup. Calling it. This is the future, may not seem like it to everyone but this is a part of actually new and extremely useful, passively scalable technology. Imagine (good) unkillable zombie databases- so long as the name of a piece of data is known (its hash).. someone, somewhere, might make it possible for you to answer your query, without even needing to setup a server setup.. that’s _it_! Not to mention it might…

Only feature missing is making the database mutable.

Re: Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records

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Post by Mindwipe »

MaxikCZ wrote: post #64
anamax wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Regular users are generally safe: the laws dont punish downloaders, only uploaders. Are you sure about that. The downloader is the one making the copy. The uploader is merely inducing the creation of said copy. Yes, it's easier/more efficient to go after the uploader, but that doesn't immunize the downloader. > Don't forget that the admins can be in different countries, making their legal pursuit a nightmare. The U…

At least in Czech republic, there is no penalty for downloading copyrighted content. You are, by law, entitled to it, as you might get yourself a copy of what you already own. Bought a film on DVD? You can legaly download it from wherever. This all ends once you start uploading it, tho. You cant upload it, period. Problem with torrents is theres no checkbox to signal "stricly no upload", you can only set limit to few…

> At least in Czech republic, there is no penalty for downloading copyrighted content

This is not correct - you still make a copy and the copyright holder could still sue you over it, but it's just not worth doing. It's not legal to do so, the Czech Republic is a signatory to the Berne Convention, it's just not a criminal offense. Which to be honest is the situation in virtually every country in the world.

Re: Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records

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Post by Mindwipe »

Timwi wrote: post #67
MaxikCZ wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least in Czech republic, there is no penalty for downloading copyrighted content. You are, by law, entitled to it, as you might get yourself a copy of what you already own. Bought a film on DVD? You can legaly download it from wherever. This all ends once you start uploading it, tho. You cant upload it, period. Problem with torrents is theres no checkbox to signal "stricly no upload", you can only set limit to few…

Your information about Germany is incorrect. The legal situation here is the same as what you described for the Czech Republic. You can download anything anywhere. What's illegal is making stuff publicly available, and BitTorrent uploading falls under that. Source: was caught and got council from a copyright lawyer.

This is also not correct.

Re: Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records

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Post by Mindwipe »

attilaperez wrote: post #48
quickthrower2 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know everyone is fed up with the cliche of web3, but having done some side projects with web3 (as in npm i web3) and ipfs, the posted article here is very exciting. This posted link could be another piece of the jigsaw (Solidity, IPFS, IPNS, ...) that I think will come together to make interesting apps in the future. Solidity doesn't mean necessarily spending $100 to make a function call - there are other chains, o…

Even as someone who profited well from Uniswap's initial token offering I still have to say that "swapping tokens" is an entirely useless functionality. Gambling, trading, scamming, and laundering are the only realized uses of crypto I have seen since I became involved with the ecosystem a decade ago. The fatal flaw of the decentralization argument is that humans are involved. People want to be able to negotiate char…

"Trading" is a pretty big use case.

While I generally agree with the principle that there is a conflict between things people say they want in terms of anonymity etc and what they do want (security for chargebacks, credit etc etc), there are still increasing trade use cases, especially around sex, that are heavily discriminated against.

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Post by anhner »

nyolfen wrote: post #43
Aloha wrote: post #32

a decade ago, I had the idea of a distributed internet wide filesystem where the chunks could be duplicated over and over again over the internet. Something survivable and loosely/eventually consistent when updated. Someone appears to have built at least part of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filecoin

yeah but this demo doesn't rely on some shitcoin

Re: Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records

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Post by hjadal »

catmanjan wrote: post #39

Can someone explain this pro: "Database size and number of records are not a problem" How is this the case if earlier there is a "limitation of not being able to ask ONLY for pieces I'm interested in"?

I am pretty sure not being able to choose the pieces is just a limitation of the specific library WebTorrent, not the Torrent protocol.

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Post by delusional »

c22 wrote: post #42
akomtu wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With a simple protocol on top it can be quite resilient. The database is updated only by a group of 3 admins, who perform the update once a week. When one admin initiates an update, the other two ask him the passphrase. If the answer is "tomato" (means "I'm compromised"), the update is rejected and they find another admin. Regular users are generally safe: the laws dont punish downloaders, only uploaders. You can exp…

Isn't the entire point of bittorrent that downloaders are also uploaders?

That's mostly important due to social factors. Technically you'll find that most torrents are seeded by people who seed a lot, while most users just drive-by leech it.

What makes torrents special is that all leechers CAN be seeders, that don't have to be though.

Re: Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records

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Post by miohtama »

qwertox wrote: post #56

My biggest issue with storing data inside the browser is the lack of tools to set up filter rules for clearing or explicitly not clearing website-specific application data. Looking at Chrome's Inspector, Application Storage has "Local Storage", "Session Storage", "IndexedDB", "WebSQL" and "Cookies". If I decide to clear all this stored data stored for all the pages with one button press in the settings, how can I be…

Firefox has a feature ”Forget site” in its History tab.

But it literally nukes everything, including saved passwords.

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