Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened?

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I thought Tor says NOT to use it for piracy cause it’ll be slow as balls

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  • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That does not dissuade the keepers of the old ways who know the agony and triumph of whole series downloads spanning month, watching that extra green pixel light up as another random chunk came through day after day until finally the progress bar became whole.

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    • crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      or porn with a cover story 🙏🥰🙌

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• roux2scour@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thanks for the node

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• scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Don’t governments run their own Tor exit nodes as honeypots?

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  • Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    it is a US military program, so yes, they run nodes as honeypots.

    this is way to valuable to be used against pirates though.

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    • SarahFromOz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yep. They wouldn’t want to show their hand too much.

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    • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The good thing is that it’s in the US military’s interest to actually keep it private and secure though.

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  • iocase@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah you’re right and the only secure method I know of is Tor hidden services which never exit the network itself. Both you and the server will never know where the other is. It’s kind of like an anonymous dead drop in a park between a spy and their handler.

    I2p is another good system to use for torrenting as well it’s just slow as balls (might be better now?) but you don’t need a VPN for that either since it uses garlic routing inspired by Tor’s onion routing.

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• redsand@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I2P is significantly better for torrents and file sharing. Check it out, there are implementations in C++ and either rust or go as well as java: i2p.net

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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Very true. Different solutions with different strengths.

    I haven’t tried Nym but IIUC design-wise it seems like the best anonymity network for torrenting

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nym_(mixnet)

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    • HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah I also think Nym has the best design overall. I’ve used NymVPN on android and it’s pretty good. There’s no package for it on my linux distro of choice sohaven’t tried it for torrenting linux distros.

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• Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can you dumb it down for me how to get started with tor? or link me in the right direction?

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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    1. Download Tor browser
    2. Browse with Tor browser
       2a. Go to Tor “hidden services” listed at places like https://dark.fail

    https://torproject.org

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