chocolate_mintute_man

joined 1 year ago
 

As per title, I've been thinking, Tech has been seeing a downturn due to investor money divesting, perhaps that's part of the source of pressure for crackdowns on piracy, in addition to youtube restricting ad blockers, and other enshittification around other streaming media (whether it is behind reddit's enshittification is perhaps a different convo)

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

Pretty sure I saw a thing from the instance admin that a sufficiently anonymous host costs about 3x as much as whatever he was using, and would need more donations prior.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

For hire private 50 cent party. Typical PR move, beyond just Reddit. A statement like

You’re shilling for a different company lmfao…pot calling the kettle black…

is probably written by someone who doesn't know or care about the details of what's been happening. Which means they're probably either using a script, or making assumptions to just do their job. The fact that decentralised communication is a far cry from corporations is completely missed because they probably just don't know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ham radio enthusiasts will start feeling very pleased with themselves then. Until jammers are brought in anyway.

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

The tricky bit is that a smaller ownership structure makes the owners more personally liable, as arguments could more easily be made that the entire server exists to service the most active channel regardless of the other content. Larger platforms are better able to utilise Safe Harbour rules. As someone else has said, it also matters where the servers are located.

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

lol, have you got all your batteries and inverters setup lol. In all seriousness, I used to hoard, but it's too much hassle, I've got too big a backlog of stuff to organise, and yeah I'll just redownload stuff I know is popular enough to remain available. I do like watching my ratios though, making sure I'm doing my bit to keep the water flowing. Data in transit as storage. Treating torrents as a form of ephemeral storage, where it can come back to me if I wish for it again. Perhaps I'm describing something more like IPFS though.

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

I am aware of that, however, I want to be as discoverable as possible so that other people without port forwarding can connect to me, increasing my capacity to share and care.

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

Yes of course. Configuration of port forwards and split tunnelling etc are outside the scope of wireguard though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ah thanks for the review, Linux is 100% relevant to me.

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

Could be intentional to prevent torrent leakage direct from your IP too. Could potentially also not have a choice, due to proprietary configurations, cable modem or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Interesting, protonVPN is shown with a beta port forwarding, dynamic. Maybe I'm wrong about static/dynamic fowarding ports. Dynamic ports might actually help them not get hit by CP distributors, as a dynamic port isn't something that can be bookmarked.

Edit: Yeah I see in their doco NAT-PMP. Guess I was straight up wrong about that stuff haha (sorry @[email protected] . I'm feeling more confident about proton now.

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

That's correct, one side needs to have an open port. Side channel messaging solves who connects to who regardless of the one doing the downloading, but one must. Thus, being able to open publicly accessible ports is parrrt of people a good pirate citizen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah, they had authorities at their door, because it sounds like some bastards were using port forwards to serve CP. Dickheads ruining it for the rest of us is how it's been described. It may well become a lot more common as providers try to shield themselves from discovery (which they can't provide for with no log policies), authorities being frustrated and then compelling them to do more.

 

I'm considering ProtonVPN to replace mullvad as they do have port forwarding for torrenting. I also did a quick search for VPN communities, but didn't find any. Maybe just not from my instance.

Just wondering if they'll end up axing port forwarding, if I pay for a extended length plan and then they axe the feature, I will have wasted quite a bit of money. At least with mullvad, it was monthly anyway, so not much to lose.

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