The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old::undefined

  • @[email protected]
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    1159 months ago

    For the lazy: “The oldest surviving torrent we have seen is a copy of the Matrix fan film “The Fanimatrix”.”

      • @[email protected]
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        369 months ago

        Valid question.

        But if it’s the dumbest shit in existence, it’s still worth seeding because it’s a part of history.

        It’s like if Terror Toons was the first torrent ever.

  • TheSaneWriter
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    879 months ago

    It’s really neat to see something like this still going. Torrenting is a cool technology, it’s fun to download and then seed a file, knowing that now other people will get to enjoy it.

    • @[email protected]
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      769 months ago

      Seeing all the flags of different countries sharing the torrent makes me think this is what international cooperation looks like.

    • @[email protected]
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      59 months ago

      Imagine if this article was written just because the author was having trouble downloading it because there weren’t enough seeders.

  • @[email protected]
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    319 months ago

    I wonder what percentage of the total internet traffic, since inception, can be attributed to this protocol.

    I bet it’s pretty high

    • dantheclamman
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      129 months ago

      Seems like some VPNs are pulling back from port forwarding. Was a bummer that Mullvad did, probably due to legal pressure

      • @[email protected]
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        209 months ago

        Not legal pressure, government pressure. They kept getting asked to disclose which accounts had which ports associated with then and share all the info on them they kept (which for some payment methods they do briefly). So they decided to remove the feature rather than potentially violate their founding principle of privacy and anonymity. Kudos to them. Of course f*ck the CSAM assholes who made the government get involved in this and cost us this feature.

        • dantheclamman
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          89 months ago

          That is very depressing. The arms race between bad actors and repressive governments keeps whittling away at our right to privacy

      • @[email protected]
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        49 months ago

        why do you need port forwarding if you have VPN?

        Its been a long, long time since i’ve used torrents in any form, so I have no idea.

          • @[email protected]
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            39 months ago

            I do want to note that you can still seed if your port isn’t forwarded. For every seed connection, only one person out of the pair needs a forwarded port.

            • dantheclamman
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              39 months ago

              Good point. It just means that only people who themselves are likely to be seeders can download from me. Which is better than nothing, but not ideal!

      • @[email protected]
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        9 months ago

        Mostly for western developed countries where you will get fucked up by the government for pirating. ISP’s in US Canada and UK will sue normal middle class people for torrenting, unless you mask your IP with the correct VPN.

        • @[email protected]
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          89 months ago

          Canada limits the amount that a company can sue for downloading pirated media to the point where it’s not worth it for the company to actually take it to court. The company can ask the ISP to send an email to try to scare the user, but that’s about it.

        • @[email protected]
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          79 months ago

          I have never heard of this happening. And I’ve gotten multiple cease and desist letters from my ISP. ISPs don’t really have the case for a suit anyways, but there are third party companies that companies like Disney will pay to watch torrents for them and ask your ISP to send you that letter.

          • @[email protected]
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            49 months ago

            A decade or so ago, there were some widely-publicized cases of folks who got absolutely ruined with six- or seven-figure judgements against them for copyright infringement.

            Example from 2012.

            Maybe it was a tactic the copyright cartel used in the mid-2000s and then stopped or something, but it was enough to shift folks’ behavior such that using VPNs became the norm.

          • @[email protected]
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            29 months ago

            You are correct, it’s super uncommon to get sued for pirating unless you’re a major player. If you get busted by your ISP too many times, though, they may give you the boot. My ISP has a 9 strikes in one rolling year policy (at least last I knew).

        • @pastermil
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          69 months ago

          Yeah, we get the VPN part. What about the port-forwarding part?

          • @[email protected]
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            I might have used the wrong word. I think the term is binding a VPN to a torrenting application so that all data going in andd out of pass thru the vpns servers

            • @pastermil
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              19 months ago

              But isn’t that how VPNs work, binding the network interface connected to it to the applications?

          • SeriousBug
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            39 months ago

            Fines. And say you seeded a movie to 1000 people and a DVD of the movie costs $20, they sue you for $20000, treating it like you broke into a warehouse and stole 1000 DVDs of the movie.

  • @[email protected]
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    139 months ago

    The Fanimatrix sounds like it should be a porn parody to me. Or some kind of detailed database and analysis of vaginas.

  • @[email protected]
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    69 months ago

    Did Linux OSs move into torrents later? I’m surprised one of those isn’t an older active torrent. I mean sure there’s no point in actually installing those OSs now but people would still seed.

    • @[email protected]
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      309 months ago

      Ther’s really no point in seeding a 20 year old iso of an os that evolves that quickly

      20 years ago we were on the 2.4 kernel just shortly before switching to 2.6, wifi was a mess, GPUs were even more mess

      now om gaming on my linux machine with better FPS than the windows version

          • @[email protected]
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            19 months ago

            I’ve just googled steamos, that’s Debian 8 right (which is eol, weird…)

            So I’m guessing Debian 8 (and hopefully newer) will get support too soon?

            • @[email protected]
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              29 months ago

              I think thats the old steamos. The current one is arch and isn’t quite public release yet but there are a few clones of it.

        • @[email protected]
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          59 months ago

          Kde 6 should have basic hdr…and I can’t find it, but I swore I’ve seen in the past week some gnome based os had some support…

          • @[email protected]
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            19 months ago

            It’s been a while for me using a gui for Linux (headless Debian is my go-to)

            Does that mean Kubuntu? (KDE Ubuntu) And for VRR (GSYNC/FREESYNC) would Kubuntu also support that do you know?

            When I’ve tried to Google before, it seems like no distro really supports these as well as windows ATM (although the steam OS comment may show things are changing)

        • @Salix
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          9 months ago

          I’ve been using FreeSync for years on Manjaro and Arch.

    • @[email protected]
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      79 months ago

      Most advice I’ve seen says you shouldn’t look for distros on torrent sites, and official torrents tend to disappear after each new release.

      • @[email protected]
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        29 months ago

        Distros with torrents tend to publish their own torrent file or magnet link on their site