Bittorrent starting to move entirely within anonymous overlay nets

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 02:06:39 PDT 2016


> Users who just had all their favourite bittorren trackers shut down

To survive political will to crush them, encrypted overlay / messaging
networks need mass popular usage in the millions of people and up.
That's traditionally come from email, social nets, torrenting / file / web
services, video, and chat. While overlay nets are certainly not currently
immune to GPA's and such, they're reasonably ok for more benign uses,
and the above uses and users are growing within those nets.
In the example of copyright holders grokking their BT client for
IP's and hashes to send to ISP's and courts... those trolls are going
to have a *much* harder time trying to shut .i2p's and .onion's,
and especially users of decentralized p2p model client apps
over overlay nets.



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