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Software idea: P2P file hosting of "endangered" files
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2026 1:03 pm
by laki
Now this could be done via e.g. BitTorrent, but there is no guarantee someone will seed your torrent, thus leading to the file being purged from existence if your computer ever goes offline, is taken by authorities, and so on... My solution would be to create something that once uploaded it is automatically downloaded by 3 (or any higher number) of users on the network. This would mean that the files can never be purged. I was thinking you could make a plugin for some torrent platform, or a web ui. This probably exists, but it was just an idea I spontaneously had.
Re: Software idea: P2P file hosting of "endangered" files
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2026 2:04 pm
by LoadingXML
Isn't that what freenet does?
Re: Software idea: P2P file hosting of "endangered" files
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2026 9:13 am
by moeloli
LoadingXML wrote: Sat Apr 25, 2026 2:04 pm
Isn't that what freenet does?
Yes, and it got a lot of innocent people party vanned for inadvertently hosting Christian Pictures... the network even had to rebrand to "Hyphanet" because of the reputation it got.
OP, I think that any system that makes you automatically host someone else's content is inherently flawed because of the possibility that you'll be hosting Christian Pictures.
Re: Software idea: P2P file hosting of "endangered" files
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 5:21 am
by LoadingXML
moeloli wrote: Sun Apr 26, 2026 9:13 am
LoadingXML wrote: Sat Apr 25, 2026 2:04 pm
Isn't that what freenet does?
inadvertently hosting Christian Pictures
No Way !
What a disaster and huge technical failure, freenet should have added some sort of christian filter.
moeloli wrote: Sun Apr 26, 2026 9:13 am
OP, I think that any system that makes you automatically host someone else's content is inherently flawed
Is it far from being an optimal solution, imagin copying your files into 10 disks, wasting time, energy and disk's life span.
Also helping randoms isn't my thing, it is one reason I dislike I2P because you cant know or select who you help, so who knows if you are helping jeffry smuggling something to an island.
Re: Software idea: P2P file hosting of "endangered" files
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 10:32 am
by moeloli
LoadingXML wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2026 5:21 am
No Way !
What a disaster and huge technical failure, freenet should have added some sort of christian filter.
Not sure if you missed it but that's not what I meant by Christian Pictures... "party vanned" also means arrested.
Also helping randoms isn't my thing, it is one reason I dislike I2P because you cant know or select who you help, so who knows if you are helping jeffry smuggling something to an island.
I won't argue about that at a moral level, but with I2P it's different because all traffic is encrypted and ephemeral so you can't get vanned for theoretically relaying "illegal" traffic. With Freenet, you are actually
hosting illegal content automatically downloaded to your computer, which will actually get you thrown in prison as a devil chomo.
Re: Software idea: P2P file hosting of "endangered" files
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 4:47 pm
by LoadingXML
moeloli wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2026 10:32 am
Not sure if you missed it but that's not what I meant by Christian Pictures...
Oh you mean something in lines of Copper Pipe or Copy Past or Consumer Product.
Or "mv" brother that doesn't leave the original copy.
You know, hosting actual christian pictures are worse, like imagine hosting a picture of the pope? Even having him in my screen is a no no, let alone having the color data of him carved in my disk.