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.

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

VisionOnTV: A Lost Future of Grassroots Video

https://hamishcampbell.com/visionontv-a-lost-future-of-grassroots-video/

heise+ | Die rechtlichen Konsequenzen illegalen Streamings

Zig Filme exklusiv bei zig Anbietern – die Fragmentierung des Streamingmarktes führt Nutzer zu illegalen Plattformen. Das kann strafrechtliche Folgen haben.

https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/Die-rechtlichen-Konsequenzen-illegalen-Streamings-10293930.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

QUESTION
does anybody have any tips on how to deal with stalled #bittorrent downloads from @internetarchive? these are all public domain movies from the 1910s, 20s and 30s and they stop 99.5 or 99.9%. some seem to be complete at 99.9% but most don’t work.

bittorrent can be very frustrating like that. i force checkout and download and nothing happens.

@grayface_ghost
@bobjmsn

I can't believe more people don't torrent, considering how expensive and numerous subscriptions have become. The bar for feeling like a badass among the normies should not be this low.

I've been running the #Kiwix seeder scripts on a small seedbox (~4 TB) for a month now. It's been a charm.
https://github.com/kiwix/seeder/blob/main/README.md

Can't wait to get more leechers!

Want to help to spread the latest ZIM files using #bittorrent? It never has been easier to create a super-seeder of (part of) our full catalog of offline archives! Everything is automated and you'll be kept in sync with the Kiwix library! You just need a GNU/#Linux, a bit of storage & bandwidth. Checkout https://github.com/kiwix/seeder #FOSS #EDTECH

There is this big glaring problem in the #bittorrent v2 spec that basically defeats the whole purpose of the spec. So v2 introduces per-file merkle trees, which rocks. That ostensibly means that you can match identical files in different torrents, and cross-seed them e.g. if someone has a single item but another person has a larger pack that includes that item. That could also be useful for mutable torrents that contain a hash tree of versions like git. The problem is that peer matching is done on the top-level infohash - which includes non-tree data - and peers are specifically required to sever connection without a matching infohash. Maybe it would be expensive for trackers to match peers by file hashes, but for DHT peers it makes perfect sense to advertise what file hashes you have for cross-seeding - that's sort of how the entire keyspace in kademlia works.

Let's reinvent the wheel by #coding a #BitTorrent client in #Go, because downloading #Debian hasn't been done enough already, right? Forget the power of existing #clients, we're all about reinventing this over-engineered bicycle. Also available in several languages, because #verbosity knows no borders.
https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/ #reinventthewheel #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go — https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/
#HackerNews #Building #a #BitTorrent #client #from #the #ground #up #in #Go #BitTorrent #GoProgramming #SoftwareDevelopment #TechNews

Unlocking Bencode: The Data Serialization Format Behind BitTorrent

Bencode is a crucial yet often overlooked data serialization format that powers the BitTorrent protocol. This article delves into its unique encoding mechanisms, potential pitfalls, and its role in th...

https://news.lavx.hu/article/unlocking-bencode-the-data-serialization-format-behind-bittorrent

ISP Must Unmask 100 Alleged #BitTorrent Pirates in #RIAA Lawsuit

https://torrentfreak.com/isp-must-unmask-100-alleged-bittorrent-pirates-in-riaa-lawsuit-250219/

Raubkopien für KI-Training: Meta nutzt BitTorrent – haben aber "nicht geseedet"

Um an immense Datenmengen für das KI-Training zu kommen, hat Meta ganze Schattenbibliotheken heruntergeladen – per BitTorrent. Illegal sei das nicht gewesen.

https://www.heise.de/news/Raubkopien-fuer-KI-Training-Meta-nutzt-BitTorrent-haben-aber-nicht-geseedet-10290721.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Why is someone poisoning my attempt to download the #InternetArchive copy of the #GeoCities archive?

I wish #Transmission had an option to disable "Web Seeds".
They have only ever caused me problems.