PSA: If you're going to write software for piracy, put it on I2P!
PSA: If you're going to write software for piracy, put it on I2P!
movie-web was just taken down with all its repos, Yuzu was taken down, then suyu forked it on gitlab and was taken down, countless clones of nintendo games, platform emulators, and a bunch of other things are taken down because they are hosted on the clear web.
If you're a dev and planning to write software for piracy, host it on I2P!
Just don’t use public and free services like GitHub or GitLab. Setup your own webspace with a trusty provider, install Gitea/Forgejo and host the code yourself. It’s that easy!
Not Gitea, they got bought by a for-profit company or something
Ah yes. Forgejo is the current community fork.
So far nothing bad has happened and the company was founded so they can sell support hours to businesses. Just like lots of other companies behind Open Source projects do it. 🤷♂️
Why does that matter? The most popular Linux distros are run by for-profit companies.
I'm curious what real-world scenario you're envisioning that is likely to happen soon.
Then they can request the provider to hand out your details just like they can with github, gitlab, codeberg, or whatever.
But they can’t just DMCA it under false premises. GitHub and others just don’t want to risk anything and are pretty quick with taking down repos without checking anything.
Also there are still a few countries that don’t bow before the US-invention that is the DMCA.
Can't they just DMCA the provider then? To request to disable your account
DMCA is only valid in the US. Those other countries obeying it are usually just doing it to avoid trouble, but there's no real legal obligation. (But if ignored, it is pretty safe to assume that any bigger company would look into local laws and try to find a different way.) But from what I've heard, hosters don't just close your account because of some DMCA. They will actually look into it and work with you to solve it.
And in the end, you could simply host it on a Raspberry Pi at your home. The ISP can't be held responsible for the data you transfer, so they won't just shut down your Internet connection. And if you get a strongly worded letter from some company, you can send it directly to the recycling bin.
I remember trying to play with I2P back in the day and it being slow. Now I wouldn't even know how to access it. Is there something I can read or watch that can reintroduce me and teach me the basics?
Seconded. Maybe start the how-to with what it is.
https://geti2p.net still exists.
I2P is still slow, but that's because there aren't many nodes. It is faster than a few years ago though. I can get download speeds of 100 KB/s or more. It's like TOR in the early days with mostly private nodes and few hosted nodes. It's easy to get a VPS and host and I2P node for a fiver a month or less.
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A lot of those advantages seem very... subjective. Peer-to-peer in itself doesn't have any advantage, but the comparison seems to be written by someone who thinks it does.
Purely because of the larger user base I would pick Tor over I2P in this scenario but for piracy in general I2P does seem like a much better fit. I do wonder how the situation will change if Veilid ever takes off, though.
i2p allows torrenting over it
Is that the only advantage at this point? I feel like you'd have to be downloading/seeding some shady fucked up shit if just using a VPN isn't enough. Though maybe I'm thinking about this from the pov of someone who mostly leeches their torrents.
I2P is better for P2P stuff. TOR is not. If you are I2P you can also take advantage of anonymous torrents with qbittorrent or the builtin torrent client.
I have a few nodes and the CPU usage is minimal. But there's also a C++ implementation if you like that better.
Also check out Radicle, it's basically decentralized Git. @forgejo@floss.social is also working on a federation solution: @ForgeFed@floss.social (https://forgefed.org/)
Radicle can still suffer under a DMCA if it's on the clear web. They just have to take down the node(s) hosting the repos, same as github, gitlab, et al. However if radicle works on I2P, that would be... rad 🤑
They are working on support for Tor, I2P and other networks: https://radicle.xyz/faq#is-there-a-way-to-run-radicle-over-tor-i2p-or-other-censorship-resistant-networks
What is I2P?
The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer. It protects your activity and location.
Think of it as TOR, but for P2P. (TOR is not for P2P).
just skimmed through that link and it seems like it's for self hosting gitlab ? is there an instance on i2p so I don't have to self host (I don't want to) ?
There is one, but it's also on the clearweb. Dunno if somebody hosts one purely on the darkweb
I2PD is an implementation is I2P, a way to anonymously share Disney's IP without showing anyone IP to the ISP.
I'm stupid, can someone please quickly tell me what I2P is?
If you know TOR, I2P is TOR but with P2P support.
But in general terms, it's anonymization network. Data is sent over multiple hops/nodes and the original source is not included. The nodes are hosted by random people. The downside is that the slowest node in the chain of nodes between the source and the target means that's how slow the entire chain is (at least). So, the more nodes, the better for anonymity, and the faster the nodes are, the better for speed.
Interesting.
A side question : I'm making a similar protocol, anyone knows some space where you discuss stuff like I2P, IPFS etc?
They all have their pros and cons, and I'd like to see if my protocol and its possibilities would interest.
Cheers
That's a good question. Unfortunately, I don't know. IPFS does have a matrix channel where you could ask questions though.
Thanks!
I actually went there maybe 6 months ago, but they were (which is totally okay) not interested in my protocol or how it works. I'm probably not very good in selling it either 😞😊.