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David

BitTorrent blocking: TorGuard VPN’s firewall nixes torrents on US servers

Multiple VPNs have blocked BitTorrent to settle piracy lawsuits from movie companies.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/torguard-vpn-blocks-bittorrent-on-us-servers-to-settle-piracy-lawsuit/

TorGuard says it operates VPN servers in 50 countries, so its users can presumably still use BitTorrent by connecting to a non-US server. Though torrenting is widely used for piracy, the peer-to-peer technology is also used for the legal distribution of files such as Linux ISOs and many types of content on the Internet Archive.

Lesson: Stay (virtually) outside the USA.

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BitTorrent blocking: TorGuard VPN’s firewall nixes torrents on US servers

Multiple VPNs have blocked BitTorrent to settle piracy lawsuits from movie companies.

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prplcdclnw@diasp.eu
David

Open Libraries: How Long Will They Last

I noticed this article at Torrent Freak. https://torrentfreak.com/brein-cracks-down-on-open-directory-piracy-but-what-is-it-201115/

Seems there's a coming crackdown on Open Libraries. These are libraries you discover by searching for "index of" epub. For example

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%22index%20of%22%20epub

It works with other types of files as well: e.g., "index of" mp4.

If these are going to start disappearing, we might want to save what we can first. Here's a library with a fair amount of SF and crime fiction.

http://www.lesatkins.com/books/epubfiles/

Libraries on the Internet overlay networks are less easy to censor, as are torrents.
- http://xfmro77i3lixucja.onion/search/?q= The Imperial Library of Trantor
- http://127.0.0.1:43110/zeropub.bit/?page=1&sort=updated&lang=en zeropub
- http://ebooks.i2p/

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