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The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old::undefined
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Well… I guess I’m seeding it now too
Ditto. cue “I’m doing my part” from Starship Troopers
seed4memez
It’s not even a ilegal download. Cool.
I wonder what percentage of the total internet traffic, since inception, can be attributed to this protocol.
I bet it’s pretty high
Probably less than spam email.
Torrenting is the way to go. Especially with VPN port forwarding now.
Seems like some VPNs are pulling back from port forwarding. Was a bummer that Mullvad did, probably due to legal pressure
Not legal pressure, government pressure. They kept getting asked to disclose which accounts had which ports associated with then and share all the info on them they kept (which for some payment methods they do briefly). So they decided to remove the feature rather than potentially violate their founding principle of privacy and anonymity. Kudos to them. Of course f*ck the CSAM assholes who made the government get involved in this and cost us this feature.
That is very depressing. The arms race between bad actors and repressive governments keeps whittling away at our right to privacy
why do you need port forwarding if you have VPN?
Its been a long, long time since i’ve used torrents in any form, so I have no idea.
You need it for seeding
I do want to note that you can still seed if your port isn’t forwarded. For every seed connection, only one person out of the pair needs a forwarded port.
Good point. It just means that only people who themselves are likely to be seeders can download from me. Which is better than nothing, but not ideal!
The Fanimatrix sounds like it should be a porn parody to me. Or some kind of detailed database and analysis of vaginas.
Did Linux OSs move into torrents later? I’m surprised one of those isn’t an older active torrent. I mean sure there’s no point in actually installing those OSs now but people would still seed.
Most advice I’ve seen says you shouldn’t look for distros on torrent sites, and official torrents tend to disappear after each new release.
Fuck I’m old. I remember discovering Bit Torrent.
