One of the great weaknesses of torrents (and filesharing systems in general ) is the lack of mechanisms to promote persistence. That's why a group of us (including Bram Cohen, BitTorrent and Bryce Wilcox-O'Hearn (Zooko), Tahoe-LAFS, MNET, ZCash) created Mojo Nation. Unfortunately, Mojo failed to get follow-on funding due to Napster. Fortunately, the idea of a publishing model (vs. filesharing), with an internal reward system for persistence, was independently re-discovered by MaidSafe, IPFS and ZeroNet. I hope at least one succeeds.
Warrant Canary creator On May 20, 2017 7:22 PM, "Steve Kinney" <ad...@pilobilus.net> wrote: > > > On 05/20/2017 08:42 PM, grarpamp wrote: > > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Razer <g...@riseup.net> wrote: > >>> Indie films on darknets mate. > >> > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_President's_Analyst > >> http://torrentking.eu/movie-1967/the-president-s-analyst-torrents/ > >> http://www.demonoid.click/files/details/3552579/ > >> http://www.demonoid.click/files/download/3552579/ > >> udp://inferno.demonoid.pw:3391/announce > > > >> I never had much luck uploading torrents myself. > > > > A functional darknet "torrent" system would have at least > > just one "tracker"... the darknet internal DHT itself. > > You'd publish the InfoHash to whatever darknet indexes you like. > > In this case, > > the "infohash" is 33fc6b8baa0d74e0c0c96d33a29d11dbbce9edc1 > > and the "index" for at least this message is the cpunks list, > > while someone might "seed" it on I2P.... I2PSnark, I2PRufus, > > I2P-Transmission... which utilize certain backend "trackers" > > mechanisms not necessarily all distributed yet. > > i2p can be called "a functional darknet torrent system," in that the > large majority of traffic crossing that network is torrents. The i2p > package includes the router, a browser based torrent client and a simple > web server. The two biggest trackers on i2p are Postman and > Difftracker, both are stable with good uptimes. I was pleased to note > on my last visit that some files I seeded and promoted there about five > years ago are still available. > > I got my copy of The President's Analyst ages ago, I would seed it but > alas, my poor overworked computer can't afford the cycles to run i2p > alongside all the other crap I am using it for: Graphics and video > editing, etc. A more "normal" user won't see a performance hit from i2p > unless the system they run it on is already overstressed. > > :o) > > > > > But there still desperately needs to be a distributed storage layer > > that long term automagically backs up the explicit "seeders" > > which tend to be volatile. At which point the original "OP seeder's" > > best role is then to just inserting into the storage layer and > > walking away. > > "Elective non OP seeders of specific torrent sets" such as with > > all torrents in Vuze / Transmission seed list, needs to transition > > to offering darknet storage blocks for all insertions that may happen. > > > >