I found I2P much better than Tor network, and now it supports BitTorrent protocol too https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/bittorrent .

Why haven’t the pirates migrated to I2P? Why are we still using clearnet and making people backout of seeding cause of DMCA?

    • idkman@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I was in the same circumstances when I started. But then I asked around which helped me properly configure it.

  • toxictenement@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    From what I have read on the upcoming implementation on i2p in qbit, I do not forsee it being adopted by the core torrent user base. The main issue I have with it is that while you can download from clearnet peers, you are only able to seed to other i2p peers. This completely eliminates any adoption by anyone using private trackers. Its not like the guys in brazil are going to jump through an extra hoop to hide their ip since they never needed to in the first place, so they can be ruled out for adoption as well. What I really fear is that its going to create a completely unnecessary schism in the userbase with a sort of ‘leechnet’ walled garden of i2p users which would hurt the greater availability of seeders. I also haven’t gotten a straight answer from anyone how ports are going to work in i2p, since normally its imperative to have a forwarded port in order to be a full participant. Unless i2p users can seed to clearnet users without issue, I am going to be worried about the impact on torrent health as a whole.

    • idkman@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s not really a hassle to configure your i2p node. I2p network recently went through a DDOS attack. Even during that point of time I had no issue surfing/torrenting.

  • camethroughtor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The more people who use I2P for relatively normal reasons like piracy, the safer it is for people who want to avoid censorship.

    Its reputation of Dread bezo addicts is probably why nobody uses it unfortunately

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think non technical people find the concept of a network within a network confusing. I think its more of i2p itself.

    I do think it is the future of filesharing and if I was to create a torrent I’d use i2p. Hopefully with more clients implementing support it sees further adoption.

    • RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I do think it is the future of filesharing

      In internet years, Torrenting is old. I2P is old. Even torrenting in I2P is old. Nothing about this is “the future”.

      Ideally, the future of file sharing would involve a fully/natively integrated anonymous network with content-addressable distributed filesystem.

      But this will probably not happen, as that architecture didn’t see large scale success before, except in Japan where at least some elements of this architecture are used in their popular P2P networks.

      The I2P crowd themselves tried with Tahoe-LAFS, but that was never really a network, even aMule over I2P had more traction, and by traction I mean tens or hundreds of users, not thousands or beyond.

      Ironically, the one content-addressable distributed filesystem that gained some attraction (outside Japan) is IPFS, which doesn’t offer anonymity, or replication, or anything special really. Yet for some reason, some hype-susceptible techies liked it, together with the NFT crowd, a great fit.

      The future of file sharing will depend on where most content will land where it will be easily accessible and quickly grabbable. How those networks will look like? Nobody knows.