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New P2P Torrent Site 'Play' Has No Single Point of Failure (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Play, a new peer-to-peer (P2P) site for downloading torrents, is practically impossible to shut down and promises to be the latest technology to revolutionise online downloads. The platform has appeared recently across ZeroNet, a Budapest-based open source site which is looking to offer a home to decentralised platforms which employ Bitcoin-crypto and BitTorrent technologies. As no central server exists, every additional user is a further point of connection inside the network, helping to avoid potential failures. As the first torrent site to appear on the network, Play can be accessed directly through a ZeroNet URL (only available with the tool installed). The site serves magnetic links sourced from RARBG, with which users can download films, series and other media files, in varying qualities. While ZeroNet itself is not an illegal platform, Play is identical to any other P2P download site in that it could face legal challenges over violating copyright.
Instead, it has many points of failure! But in all seriousness, we'll see what it does in 6 months. Anything that seems too good to be true...
. . .aka the infamous "Slashdot Effect" DDOS. Let's see how that works out (grin)
"Play is identical to any other P2P download site in that it could face legal challenges over violating copyright."
Torrent download sites do not host any copyrighted content and don't violate any copyright agreement. They were prosecuted for that in the past because hollywood enforcers do not care about the difference between hosting files and hosting links that connect you to other users who share the files with you, which is perfectly legal everywhere. Obviously laws or democratic procedures have no place in the fascist military-entertainment complex that is America who does not recognize any laws that are in the way of corporate interests, or even that different countries have different laws.
They're sharing Debian ISOs without making a profit?!
MEDIC!
There are also public web proxies to view (and also post) without installing anything
More zeronet websites
Wouldn't Slashdot users running nodes make the whole thing stronger?
It's called an ISP
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That makes me feel old
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"The site serves magnetic links sourced from RARBG"
What does that mean?
Another slashvertisement, oh boy...
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I don't understand this claim. Now once a torrent is streaming there is no single point of failure by virtue of the P2P aspect. But for people to find a torrent node with their desired item there needs to be some sort of directory. Historically it has been the directories that get shutdown. So how does this solve that problem? You can't just say the nodes serve the directory can you? because it some point someone needs a definitive entry point or well known fixed set of points, so it can be found to bootstrap the process. If they are well known then can't they be shut down?
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I was thinking in terms of getting the RARBG tool needed for entry into the network. That's still likely a chokepoint.
Bitcoin wallets aren't cracked. Unless you're an idiot and chose a Bitcoin wallet that's easily guessable (like choosing a password of password). The default Bitcoin wallets are just fine and cryptographically secure.
The Tor network may have been "attacked". But short of having 50% of nodes under your control, you can't guarantee anything and the best attack is still a timing / correlation attack by monitoring both ends of a transaction (so presumably you don't NEED to know anything more than that anyway, if you've got that far) that pretty much NOTHING can stop.
Stop getting your tech news from overblown headlines and look into... the tech. If Bitcoin wallets were "cracked", there would be billions of dollars lost overnight. That's not what happened. A handful of people deliberately choosing to use the equivalent of "123456" for a Bitcoin wallet key may have lost their money. That's it. And people using certain monitored elements of Tor where they are giving away their own IP, or the service they connect to is giving away it's IP, allowing silly attacks due to poor configurations (nothing can stop the stupid) may have given away more information than they knew.
Otherwise, the sensible users of the systems using them what they were designed for have carried on completely unhindered. The systems both worked, as designed.
We need something like http://popcorntime.io/ to appear, to it be well tested ^^
The *AA shills have long gone. I know the RIAA reared their ugly head there a while back but even the corrupt politicians have stopped listening to them years ago
Play is similar to any other internet site in that it could face legal challenges over violating copyright.
There, fixed that for you.
Original:
Play is identical to any other P2P download site in that it could face legal challenges over violating copyright.
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FTA:
As no central server exists, every additional user is a further point of connection inside the network, helping to avoid potential failures. If one of the connections fails, this does not necessarily compromise the entire downloads platform.
So...the 'user' goes dark? I know, I know, the user's connection goes dark...but for some reason the phasing tickled the morbid elf in me, picturing users keeling over at their consoles while the network perseveres... :)
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... of course what I said above is also true for Microsoft.
Have they ever done anything about piracy? Isn't wild piracy something which keep/kept them being the undisputed #1 when it come to operating-systems? Had Microsoft just somehow banned me I would of course use something else, how is that good business for Microsoft? It make no sense at all.
Of course good (heavy and "uncrackable") DRM could had worked for Microsoft if they could also regionally lock down the pricing and usage somehow (by language?), I don't really know how because then they could get paid but still let poor people be able to afford their product, however without that good DRM would just mean that Microsoft wouldn't be very relevant in poor markets (if they also want to earn money in richer markets) and is that really what they want? (Sure localization by IP or whatever, though not very accurate, have people identify themselves with passports?)
"Page response time is not limited by your connection speed "
So what are they trying to get at here -- that it's like Akamai? Because this just sounds like marketing drivel.
What do you get when you cross a mountain-climber with a mosquito? Nothing! You can't cross a scaler with a vector.
RARBG is the single point of failure then?
This is also how I understand the thing. However the problem is considered, new users must use some entry point, and that will always be a SPOF.