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I'm pretty sure you can actually download the magnet links as an archive, which shouldn't be too big either.

• toomuchtodo 12y ago
  Could the magnet links be served as a torrent?
  • Joona 12y ago
    (If I understand your question correctly,) sure, but it would instantly be outdated, because you can't include the torrent you just created.
  • forgotpasswd3x 12y ago
    Possible a magnet to the magnet bundle?
    • aaren 12y ago
      yes, but because the magnet link is a hash of the content it is only ever a snapshot of the magnet bundle.
      • toomuchtodo 12y ago
        So version the magnet link (similar to git) and always serve the latest magnet link via a DNS TXT record.
        • aaren 12y ago
          where does the version control repo live?
          • toomuchtodo 12y ago
            Excellent point. I'll continue to think on this!
            • aaren 12y ago
              It might be that a blockchain is the way to go. Bitcoin lets you store 80 bytes with each transaction. Maybe that isn't enough for a magnet link and description, but you could use multiple transactions. Maybe there is more optimal blockchain design though. Ideally you'd want a way of validating the content as well.
              • mpeg 12y ago
                Or just host the site in the Tor network.
                • aaren 12y ago
                  A hidden service is still centralised though, right? Given the current chasing of The Pirate Bay, I'd expect this hidden service to get the same scrutiny as The Silk Road. My take on The Silk Road was that whilst it was quite possibly bad operational practice that took it down, it could have yielded to traffic analysis. I'd expect the same fate of Tor Pirate Bay.
                  • mpeg 12y ago
                    But opsec can be improved upon, with enough care in how you host your torsite, what software it's on and who manages it, it should be possible to run it pretty safely, save for an attack against Tor. I imagine the third generation black markets on Tor will last longer than the second one did
            • bcoates 12y ago
              You might be looking for this: https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Updateable_Subspace_Key https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Updateable_Subspace_Key
• draugadrotten 12y ago
  Could the magnet links be distributed by adding them to dummy transactions using the BitCoin "coinbase" blockchain method?
  • Cakez0r 12y ago
    Curious about this too.
• dfc 12y ago
  You can download "an archive" that has all of the magnet links at the time of the creation of the archive. This is not helpful for finding new content. Most importantly downloading a 9 gig archive of magnet links is not a workable system for average users; Bittorrent is only as good as the number of peers in the swarm.
  • Joona 12y ago
    True, and I would love to see a solution to it, but downloading an archive makes it at least a little bit less centralized.
  • elros 12y ago
    I don't think it's intended as the main mean of consumption, just as yet another measure to make sure it's hard to destroy the information.
  • runn1ng 12y ago
    I actually made a magnet link archive a year and something back ( http://www.karelbilek.com/piratebay/ http://www.karelbilek.com/piratebay/ ), mostly as an experiment Only the magnets and names - 76 MB; all the magnets + descriptions + comments - 631 MB It's not that workable for any particular usage (other then statistics I guess) and I never upgraded it since then. There were some attempts by other people to regularly archive TPB (and semi-mirror sites like torrentz.eu and bitsnoop were "mirroring it" by reposting its torrents until the very end) but I am not sure if somebody actually dumped it online regularly in an archive