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What do you think is the future of file sharing? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 days ago by tatterdemalion@programming.dev to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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There are now many technologies for P2P file sharing:

Usenet
Bittorrent
IPFS
Tenfinger
more?

And also several technologies for anonymization:

VPNs
Tor
I2P

AFAICT the most popular option is still Bittorrent with various public and private trackers and indexers. Private trackers seem to be the most effective option that communities have converged on.

I've tried all of the above solutions over the years and while I think something like I2P sounds great in theory, it doesn't seem to actually work well in practice. Because it's not terribly popular, it's hard to know what to expect.

We clearly still haven't found the ideal model that can provide both good performance, discovery, access, availability, and anonymity. But do you think we will actually make progress on these problems? We seem to have stabilized on a local maximum.

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[-] Damage@feddit.it 9 points 5 days ago

They're certainly an imperfect solution, downloading shit you don't care about just to build ratio, at least at first, seems really stupid.

But you can't argue with the quality of the content on good private trackers.

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Most private trackers have a point system where you accumulate points that you can exchange for upload credit, as a mean to provide an incentive to keep less popular torrents active.

That way you can build up your ratio without downloading stuff you don't want.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah I'm in multiple private ones, I know how it works, it's still not easy

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