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I2P Anonymous Network
- fsflover 2y agoThe completely anonymous, built-in torrents in I2P are hugely undervalued. I expected that every big torrent tracker would set up a mirror in I2P in order to allow their users to stay anonymous. I don't understand why they don't do it.
- Charon77 2y agoThere's already the DHT that really removes the need of trackers in the first place.
- aspenmayer 2y agoI don't think public torrent trackers would have much incentive to do so, as their legal justification is that they aren't hosting or linking to files themselves. If they were to run services like I2P they would probably have a harder time making that claim. Private trackers probably wouldn't want to do that because it probably would mess with the largely IP-based seed ratio requirements which most private trackers have.
- fsflover 2y ago> If they were to run services like I2P they would probably have a harder time making that claim. What are you talking about? Torrent servers in I2P don't store files either. > largely IP-based seed ratio requirements I thought it was largely account-based, not IP-based.
- aspenmayer 2y ago> What are you talking about? They don't store files either. Running I2P would require more storage than the status quo of not running it. They usually store torrents and or magnet links, not the files themselves. I don’t know how much overhead running I2P would be over and above running a tracker also? > I thought it was largely account-based, not IP-based. Yes, those are not mutually exclusive. You have an account and the tracker binds the IP that downloads the torrent to a cookie or to a unique tracker announce url.
- fsflover 2y ago> Running I2P would require more storage than the status quo of not running it I don't think it's significant. You might confuse I2P with Hyphanet (formerly Freenet), which is dedicated to anonymous storage. > I don’t know how much overhead running I2P would be over and above running a tracker also? The overhead will depend on whether you want to keep your tracker's IP hidden. If not, it should be minimal AFAIK.
- marxisttemp 2y agoYou can seed from multiple IPs, e.g. a seedbox and your home connection. All the private trackers I know of simply use a token passed via URL query parameter to the tracker.
- hkt 2y agoTorrents.csv would let anyone set up a public tracker these days, FYI.
- aspenmayer 2y agoThat’s a really cool idea! I haven’t heard of it before. > Torrents.csv is a collaborative git repository of torrents, consisting of a single, searchable torrents.csv file. Its initially populated with a January 2017 backup of the pirate bay, and new torrents are periodically added from various torrents sites. It comes with a self-hostable webserver, a command line search, and a folder scanner to add torrents. Do you know of any other interesting projects that involve p2p/torrents/debrid/i2p/tor or adjacent things like dht/freenet/willow/veilid? Here’s some interesting debrid stuff I found that may be of interest to you or others. https://github.com/debridmediamanager/awesome-debrid https://github.com/debridmediamanager/awesome-debrid
- tryptophan 2y agoIts because I2P torrents are horrendously slow, like 10kbps.
- oigursh 2y agoI believe there's a simple boot flag for tails OS that let's you use this instead of Tor.
- fsflover 2y agoIt was removed from Tails in 2017: https://tails.net/doc/anonymous_internet/tor/why/index.en.html#i2p https://tails.net/doc/anonymous_internet/tor/why/index.en.ht...
- sunshine-o 2y agoWhile I really like the concept, I2P is one of those P2P network strongly associated with the darkest corner of the Internet in my mind and something I would rather stay away from (because I would rather not get arrested randomly because I have used it). Now I was just going through the I2P Wikipedia page and I couldn't find anything about that. Are my fears irrational?
- seanw444 2y agoUnless you live in a third-world country, I don't think you have to worry much, especially if you live a very uncontroversial life.
- _lvbh 2y agoMost 3rd world countries aren't advanced enough to catch you anyways. I'd be more worried in parts of the EU or UK
- a5c11 2y agoIn 3rd world countries they don't care about piracy, drug dealing, or inappropriate content, but they do care about what you're saying about government. In first world countries it's the exact opposite, you can openly criticize government, hell you can make fun of politicians, but better watch out when looking for pirated content.
- ignoramous 2y ago> Unless you live in a third-world country... Funny how some people fantasize all the autocratic, dystopian shit must always be going down in the "third world". Too much Hollywood.
- gosub100 2y agoWould you rather have a judicial "miscalculation" happen to you in the US or Iran?
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- 2-3-7-43-1807 2y agohow does this work? is it like a p2p tor where every participant is also an entry/relay/exit node?
- fsflover 2y agoYes, except nobody is an exit node by default.
- 2-3-7-43-1807 2y agoconsidering the stories you hear from tor exit node maintainers it takes quite some courage to participate in such a technology.