What happened to networks like eMule, WinMX, DC++, and so on? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Is retroshare the new iteration of this?

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[-] TheChickenOfDoom@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Back in the old days, when a file sharing service got found out by corporations and started sending nasty letters, people stopped using that service.

Too bad the torrenting generation never learned that lesson and now torrenting is just one big clusterfuck of "seekret club" sites and paying (VPNs) to pirate, which is laughable.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I wish more pirates used I2P. But it seems like many cannot deal with waiting a day for their download to finish.

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[-] Lychee@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Any good tutorial on using I2P in combination with tools like transmission or aria? Don't matter to wait a day or a week..

I even hate same day expedition on online shops.. never understood why people have the urge to want to have it within a day.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I don't know of a tutorial, but most tools have to have support for I2P built in, otherwise they won't work. A good torrent client that does is qBittorrent.

Browsing I2Ps network with HTTP happens over a SOCKS5 proxy, so if aria supports that, you can use it too. https://geti2p.net/ should have more information.

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[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

In general? Civilization's fucked. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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