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" <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
On 05/20/2017 08:42 PM, grarpamp wrote:
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Razer <g2s@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.