I always find it funny how theyre always calling to ban the most surface level piracy sites or just whatever gets a lot of media attention like the pirate bay.
The seas are so deep they can never drain it all, nor do they intend to. Its just to keep that riaa and MPA campaign funds flowing.
Yep, and even if they managed to block indexers, you can always open up any torrent client with DHT search and find torrents in a fully distributed and P2P way. I used to have magnetico crawling DHT and connected to my *arrstack as a backup so it’s pretty straightforward to not rely on any central blockable website for torrents.
For casual pirates who torrent on their personal windows devices sure, but I can only see 2 reasons to be concerned about DHT and both of them are solved by things that any serious pirate should be doing anyway:
Ip leaks: your torrent client should be in an isolated network namespace or in a docker container with isolated networking that only has access to a VPN - it should not rely solely on a network killswitch
Malware: If your piracy setup is at risk of executing binaries should they appear in any downloaded torrent, something you’re doing is very wrong. I don’t even run torrent clients on windows, and my home seedbox runs Debian with everything in read only unprivileged containers
These are good things to follow even if you don’t use DHT.
I always find it funny how theyre always calling to ban the most surface level piracy sites or just whatever gets a lot of media attention like the pirate bay.
The seas are so deep they can never drain it all, nor do they intend to. Its just to keep that riaa and MPA campaign funds flowing.
Yep, and even if they managed to block indexers, you can always open up any torrent client with DHT search and find torrents in a fully distributed and P2P way. I used to have magnetico crawling DHT and connected to my *arrstack as a backup so it’s pretty straightforward to not rely on any central blockable website for torrents.
Yeah but DHT from home is like fucking your tinder date raw dog. I’d only suggest DHT for legit torrents or on a seedbox.
For casual pirates who torrent on their personal windows devices sure, but I can only see 2 reasons to be concerned about DHT and both of them are solved by things that any serious pirate should be doing anyway:
Ip leaks: your torrent client should be in an isolated network namespace or in a docker container with isolated networking that only has access to a VPN - it should not rely solely on a network killswitch
Malware: If your piracy setup is at risk of executing binaries should they appear in any downloaded torrent, something you’re doing is very wrong. I don’t even run torrent clients on windows, and my home seedbox runs Debian with everything in read only unprivileged containers
These are good things to follow even if you don’t use DHT.
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