What's your preferred BitTorrent client and why?

Wie zerstört man #Bittorrent? Eine Möglichkeit das Protokoll zu zerstören wäre mit einem Client der es Aushebelt. Das Problem ist ja das man für den upload den man beim download erzeugt Abmahnungen bekommen kann und wenn man nix uploded oder eine schlechte Ratio hat kein oder kaum download bekommt. Wenn man ein Client schreibt der die Ratio fälscht und den download an die eigenen Quellen umleitet hat man einen #Torrentclient der je mehr er sich verbreitet #Torrent immer unbenutzbarer macht.

TIL you can use torrents to seed+distribute s3 files. I wonder if anyone has written the reverse, an s3 frontend backed by torrents. That strikes me as useful for fedi media caching (though perhaps the deduplication of hashes/IPFS would suit better)

https://carltonbale.com/how-to-create-and-seed-a-torrent-download-on-amazon-s3/

Why does Proton VPN block P2P transfer (BitTorrent) on their free plan? (Is it because it can be misused unlimitedly?)

Not cool; Can't use it even if I wanted to do some legitimate download over BitTorrent

That stupid app keeps prompting me that P2P connections have been blocked from loading. Please upgrade to a paid plan.

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#discord IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!

• It's worse than any #IRC, #Mumble or even the old #TeamSpeak & #Skype for that matter.

• It combines the disadvantages of #Forum, #paywalled #documentation, #chat and #voicechat with 0 redeeming qualities (unlike #Zulip & Mumble & #XMPP+#OMEMO) it's just an #InformationBlackhole!

I'm shure fecking #dread has better moderation and I'd rather use #MicrosoftTeams + #Slack cuz those at least have proper #moderation tools.

• And I'd rather subscribe to the #LKML and see my inbox getting hosed than using any shitty #SaaS!

Case in point: I'd rather #SelfHost all my comms infrastructure than to ever use something like Discord or any other #GDPR-violating SaaS that is just enshittification.

I'd rather recommend people to instead choose a tool that does everything but horrible to go with multiple smaller & good tools

• Public Chat? IRC!
• Group Voicechat? Mumble.
• #Documentation? #mkDocs-material.
• 1:1 Chats? XMPP+OMEMO.
• E2EE Group Chats? #deltaChat.
• E2EE Calls? #WebCall.
• Filehosting? #IPFS, #BitTorrent, oshi.at, etc. ...
• …

Check @alternativeto and @european_alternatives for options.

I'm staying at a household where they play for Disney+. But we can't watch the MCU Spiderman movies, because some other company has the rights to movie adaptions of the character. So we're now expected to pay for 2 different streaming services to binge the MCU in order?

Best argument for #BitTorrent ever.

are there any bittorrent clients that support bep-052 and offer a cli?

Dites les gens, vous savez où transmission-daemon stocke les fichiers .torrents des torrents en cours de seed ?
C’est pour faire de la modif en masse de trackers…
#Linux #Transmission #bittorrent

Search your feelings. You know it to be true. The world, and Internet was a better place, when most of our bandwidth was spent sharing TV shows on Bittorrent. #piracy #bittorrent

Is digital piracy ethically justifiable?

I was curious about ZeroNet again today. ZeroNet was a #P2P web project from the 2010s along similar lines to I2P (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P) and #Tor hidden services. The idea of hosting dynamic webpages in a completely P2P fashion, like torrents, remains super cool and appealing to me. In fact, at one point the #BitTorrent company had a similar proposal (https://www.bittorrent.com/blog/2014/12/10/project-maelstrom-the-internet-we-build-next/).

The ZeroNet website (https://zeronet.io/) is still up, but the project hasn't been updated in five years as per the GitHub repo (https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet). Someone was maintaining a fork at some point, and at other times I heard that ZeroNet was (now?) insecure, although I know no details. Certainly anything P2P isn't anonymous by default.

I found this question (https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet/issues/2749) about the creator of ZeroNet. Disturbingly, this article (https://www.newsbtc.com/news/sam-maloney-creator-of-morphis-and-dpush-shot-dead-by-london-police/) about a different developer killed by the police under unusual circumstances was shared.

My impression was that ZeroNet actually worked (works?) to some extent. Why aren't projects like this being funded? We need censorship-resistant ways of communicating online, after all.

George Santos appeals Jimmy Kimmel case, two Danish men sentenced to prison over BitTorrent use and Filipino rapper sues politician.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/03/25/3-count-changing-tactics/

600,000 customers affected: South Korean ISP allegedly installed malware

A Korean ISP is said to have deliberately installed malware on customer computers in order to throttle the use of file-sharing services.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/600-000-customers-affected-South-Korean-ISP-allegedly-installed-malware-9783736.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

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