we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
torrents work like this
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
please learn to torrent
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always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.
Does anyone know the way to avoid your ISP threatening you for seeding torrents... do VPNs truly work... I think a lot of people still torrent (even young ppl) but the fact that ISPs like threaten to throttle your service or otherwise punish you for seeding stresses me out to where I do it a lot less and tend to look for plain files. And I feel bad when I download without seeding lol
I'll look it up on my own but maybe its good to add to the thread
Here's a response from an anon:
hey i saw your questions in the notes of the torrenting post and id like to let you know that YES they do indeed work, even if you use a vpn that remains within the us (i don't personally recommend this though). the gist of what a vpn does is it makes your IP address put on a disguise before it goes out into the world wide web and sends/receives data. since your ISP doesn't recognize the IP address as you, and therefore someone they're liable for damages caused by said address, it doesn't care what happens under it. there's also a torrenting guide on fmhy(dot)net :) happy sailing!
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