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Still no meaningful promises around the safety or effectiveness of this. Seems like this will get many people a love letter from their ISP. Not worth the hass

Still no meaningful promises around the safety or effectiveness of this. Seems like this will get many people a love letter from their ISP. Not worth the hassle with no idea of if this will work in even the medium term.

sixtyfourbits 4y ago
IPFS provides the same privacy guarantees as bittorrent (i.e. none). Use a VPN.
- 8t88t8tttt8 4y ago
  A VPN does not protect you well from law enforcement.
  - sva_ 4y ago
    I think in this case a wisely picked VPN likely offers more than "good enough" protection.
ajsnigrutin 4y ago
> Seems like this will get many people a love letter from their ISP. Many countries just don't care. A few EU ones and USA might, but once you go into slightly poorer territories, noone cares about foreign copyright. So, treat it like you would treat seeding a pirate bittorrent.
- technoooooost 4y ago
  In Canada the ISPs send email threats but do absolutely nothing. I get them all the time.
  - ornornor 4y ago
    This is because the federal government had the foresight to make a law that 1. Limits maximum damages to something like 5,000$ so that it isn’t worth the copyright mafia’s time to pursue, 2. ISP get complaints from copyright mafia and forwards it to the user but the ISP isn’t allowed to share the user details with the copyright mafia. That’s why these emails always try and entice you to click a link and settle the crime for a few hundred dollars. They can’t do anything else as they don’t even know who you are but a few chumps will click and pay so it’s free money in a way. Anyway, great piece of law and I’m glad lobbies didn’t get their way with that in Canada.
    - brokenmachine 4y ago
      Law: does absolutely nothing useful... >great piece of law lol! I agree, of course.
KoftaBob 4y ago
The instructions specifically state to use a VPN, no different from bittorrent in that regard. http://annas-blog.org/help-seed-zlibrary-on-ipfs.html http://annas-blog.org/help-seed-zlibrary-on-ipfs.html

sixtyfourbits 4y ago

IPFS provides the same privacy guarantees as bittorrent (i.e. none). Use a VPN.

8t88t8tttt8 4y ago
A VPN does not protect you well from law enforcement.
- sva_ 4y ago
  I think in this case a wisely picked VPN likely offers more than "good enough" protection.

ajsnigrutin 4y ago

> Seems like this will get many people a love letter from their ISP. Many countries just don't care. A few EU ones and USA might, but once you go into slightly poorer territories, noone cares about foreign copyright. So, treat it like you would treat seeding a pirate bittorrent.

technoooooost 4y ago
In Canada the ISPs send email threats but do absolutely nothing. I get them all the time.
- ornornor 4y ago
  This is because the federal government had the foresight to make a law that 1. Limits maximum damages to something like 5,000$ so that it isn’t worth the copyright mafia’s time to pursue, 2. ISP get complaints from copyright mafia and forwards it to the user but the ISP isn’t allowed to share the user details with the copyright mafia. That’s why these emails always try and entice you to click a link and settle the crime for a few hundred dollars. They can’t do anything else as they don’t even know who you are but a few chumps will click and pay so it’s free money in a way. Anyway, great piece of law and I’m glad lobbies didn’t get their way with that in Canada.
  - brokenmachine 4y ago
    Law: does absolutely nothing useful... >great piece of law lol! I agree, of course.

KoftaBob 4y ago

The instructions specifically state to use a VPN, no different from bittorrent in that regard. http://annas-blog.org/help-seed-zlibrary-on-ipfs.html http://annas-blog.org/help-seed-zlibrary-on-ipfs.html