I wonder if there could be a torrent site that is decentralized enough that no one really has significant liability for running it, like Bittorrent itself but for the indexing/curation aspect.
Sorry to disappointed you, but I have an answer: yes. I created a peer-to-peer protocol for scalable, advanced and decentralized search engines. On top of this protocol, I created Admarus, a decentralized search engine for IPFS. If someone published a distributed torrent website on IPFS, it could get indexed on Admarus and could never be banned
Seems like a cool software. I only know a little about IPFS, could that search work to search for individual pages for torrents within such a site? Can IPFS do page updates that aren’t centrally controlled, ie. the initial publisher can’t actually shut it down or dictate what others can put on it?
Yes it allows searching for individual pages. Everyone can publish and index whatever files they want. However, they won’t appear under a domain name without being added by the domain name owner. Domain name are just for humans to read though, they are not required by ipfs and admarus. Nothing prevents you from cloning a website, modifying it, and publishing it under another domain or without a domain. Content published on IPFS is immutable and lives as long as someone has it. That means many revisions of a website can exist at the same time. Domain name are practical because they are made to always point to the latest revision.
No one can dictate what can be indexed. However, ranking takes popularity into account, so that spam and unwanted content doesn’t rank high
Disclaimer: i don’t know much about piracy and stuff in general but studied computer science so sharing this just for funsies DO NOT TAKE THIS ADVICE IF YOU ARE SERIOUS!!!
Okay so here it goes:
Buy crypto then use crypto mixers to annonymize it.
Use a webhosting site that accept said crypto.
Use vpn for everything preferably more than one routing from multiple countries like one from west then one from east.
If you can use a vm specifically for everything related to your site to make sure things are contained.
Make sure to not upload from the same id’s as the one you use to create site. Make a user account if you wanna upload anything.
Read up on how other such websites are created to figure out if you are missing something.
well good thing you said to not take this advice because it’s not really good.
Don’t use crypto mixers, a lot of them are scams and their usefullness is up to debate -> instead use monero, the actual private crypto that is used throughout darknet.
Don’t use VPNs to be anonymous. VPN are useful for a few things: torrenting, browsing on a public wifi and bypassing georestrictions. they are not useful if you want to be anonymous! To be anonymous, use TOR (or i2p) 3.the VM advice is good. alternatively you could use TailsOS which is more user friendly.
Don’t. Especially if you need to ask how to do it first.
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