Arthur@literature.cafe to Banned Book Club@literature.cafe · 3 months agoUtah book banners now want to make Little Free Libraries susceptible to criminal chargeswww.themarysue.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1144arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1141arrow-down1external-linkUtah book banners now want to make Little Free Libraries susceptible to criminal chargeswww.themarysue.comArthur@literature.cafe to Banned Book Club@literature.cafe · 3 months agomessage-square14fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squareFurballlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agoBooks are small files which aren’t big enough for torrents to be useful. Go ahead and look on z-lib, which has whatever book you could possibly want available for direct download
minus-squarezcd@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoI was thinking of a large curated torrent, every time the a book gets banned it gets added to the torrent, one stop shop to fight modern book burning
minus-squareFurballlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoTorrents can’t be modified once they are made. Making 1 torrent and adding things to it wouldn’t be possible to do
minus-squareTakumidesh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoBitTorrent v2 supports modifying torrents as well as deduping matching files from multiple sources (great for varying collections of books) https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/
minus-squareTakumidesh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoP2p protocols like BitTorrent are useful because they are decentralized and very very hard to control by authority. Shutting down one or a cluster of servers owned by one person is easier than chasing after 10,000 people in 100 different countries.
Books are small files which aren’t big enough for torrents to be useful. Go ahead and look on z-lib, which has whatever book you could possibly want available for direct download
I was thinking of a large curated torrent, every time the a book gets banned it gets added to the torrent, one stop shop to fight modern book burning
Torrents can’t be modified once they are made. Making 1 torrent and adding things to it wouldn’t be possible to do
I guess we can just do rolling releases
BitTorrent v2 supports modifying torrents as well as deduping matching files from multiple sources (great for varying collections of books)
https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/
P2p protocols like BitTorrent are useful because they are decentralized and very very hard to control by authority.
Shutting down one or a cluster of servers owned by one person is easier than chasing after 10,000 people in 100 different countries.