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I have novel data, I have created torrents and seeding. Where do I put these torrents? I just want these data to be free like bald eagle, screeching in sky.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice try fed. We don’t snitch our private trackers

[–] beaumains 5 points 1 year ago

Haha nearly got you! :-P

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

1337x.to and The Pirate Bay are the popular options, if you want your torrent easily accessible then put it on both of those.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everyone in this thread is approaching this as if OP explicitly mentioned that they were trying to distribute this material through ‘grey-legal’ pirate channels; all they said is their torrent is novel.

So, OP, giving you the benefit of the doubt: (Or, alternatively, for those who stumble upon this post and may wish to archive “legal” data: )

If you’re trying to sincerely archive something that you believe nobody else has access to, and you aren’t just blatantly posting copyrighted material, the Internet Archive will host links to your torrent(s), provided that they are verifiably sound. Even though it isn’t usually thought of as a place to find torrent files, the Archives have a lot of content available through both F2P and P2P, and if your torrent/file is related to other content already hosted there, it could be part of a collection, which would also increase visibility.

If it is a piece of potentially lost media, please contact the Lost Media Wiki project (I believe they have a Discord), and they will be more than happy to help disseminate the content.

[–] beaumains 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, some of it is legal content that has just been sitting locked away on a hard drive for years while I work out what to do with it.

A friend who does archival stuff for govt keeps giving me stuff all like "hey check out this weird thing!" with some ancient film or something. It would be nice to share that, I'll have a look at posting those to the IA.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Please do look into the internet archive, and anyone who cares about history of the internet, abandoned software/games, public domain media, etc., please consider donating to them as they are under attack by our corporate overlords.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Nashua 6 points 1 year ago

Something new or unusual, with a hint of interesting. Say you came up with a way to use an established procedure to measure something in a way it hasn’t been before, and that data is genuinely interesting - that would be novel data.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I wrote up a rough list of places to try in an earlier post you can check out, the OP in the other post added their own feedback. You can give those a go & see what you come up with, feel free to add your own comments as well :)

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/1882645

Also related https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/3401527

With public torrent sites a lot of them require you to apply to register & may/may not have their own requirements to be granted upload privileges.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You'd have better luck on private trackers and/or just sharing on Soulseek.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From what I've seen its not exactly easy to get upload privileges on any decent indexer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they are decent because they don't let anyone upload anything

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

True. Otherwise, it would be flooded with malware

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As many public trackers as you can (I usually just start with 1337x. TPB is garbage and shouldn't be used anymore)

Usually once it's out on 2 or 3 public trackers for a couple days all the big DHT scrapers pick it up and then she's free on the wind.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The original creators are long gone, the philosophy of the site has changed, and it's filled to the gills with ads and is just pretty sketchy at this point.

Which is surprising, honestly, because the whole reason that the original team got absolutely fucked was because they had way less advertising on the site to help cover the costs. They were railroaded with "profiting off of facilitating piracy." Yet the current team clearly is actually doing that and yet its fucking crickets from law enforcement. Reeks of it probably being owned by some government and they keep it up so they can keep track of piracy and send out cease and desist notices.

Why else would they be allowed to continue to exist while flagrantly doing worse stuff than the original team that they literally jailed over less?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

https://thepiratebay dot party/ you're welcome

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Bitsearch.to lets you upload anything, and its searched by jackett. Same with the sister site solidtorrents.to. Solid actually has a python plugin for qbittorrent so its even easier to search/discover.

[–] Supermariofan67 2 points 1 year ago

Theoretically, you don't even have to post it anywhere. Just leave it seeding long enough and it will get picked up by a DHT indexer like btdig.com. However, posting it to some indexer does improve discoverability because not everyone will search btdig.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If said content contain books (or maybe others pdf/epubs/docx), I would recommend uploading to one of the website that will eventually be mirrored by Anna’s Archive. (see https://annas-archive.org/datasets)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

YouTube videos it is the pirate bay