There is btrfs - a linux filesystem. It keeps hashes for blocks to prevent data rot. And you can configure it into a raid that duplicates data across drives but doesn’t require the exact same drives. You can just group any old drives together to create one large volume where everything is duplicated. At least that is how I understand this, I’m new to this too.

There are some movies with “multi” in av1.

Yeah I’ve always wondered that. I haven’t found any “forum” that can be hosted (and moderated) fully p2p. I’m unsure how to build it either. Ideally you’d want something like an imdb so you’d need revision control with keys who can edit what and forks maybe and moderator privileges and caching.

Why don’t these usenet servers get taken down? They share stuff much more directly than piratebay ever did.

Yeah that would be the dream!

I’d love some kind of federated streaming service. So that different content providers can sell their stuff, you pay once monthly into a pool, and you can choose different clients to access all content services. Then the money gets distributed depending on your viewing habits.

Interesting. Not sure if qBittorrent supports that, I really hate switching clients :D Swarm merging for V2 should be implicit because each file has a unique hash code. So you can’t not merge.

Another thing torrent clients could do: Every torrent that is downloaded and “rechecked” automatically generates and “upgrades” a V1 torrent into a V1/V2 hybrid torrent for sharing. And when you add a normal magnet link you could get the hybrid v1/v2 torrent from others via DHT. So theoretically only one person needs to generate this upgraded torrent and it’s not up to the uploader / tracker.

No that is not true. I’m not sure why that silly notion was spread, I’ve seen it on reddit too. Theoretically the protocol does allows for an extension for this but it’s not implemented and would need special considerations to do. And any client implementing this would not just swap files willy nilly, they’d implement some kind of permission or opt in. There are potential applications for this but not for regular torrents.

I wish people would adopt torrent V2 because that one missing 500 byte file can make the video unwatchable. With V2 each file has it’s own sha256 hash and can be checked and shared individually. It would also improve torrent health.

That’s funny because the captured US supreme court is just working on preventing any government agency from making such rulings. Then it will be decided by all the fascist federalist judges.

I switched to FreeTube and it’s pretty good so far. I’m missing a few things and better browser integration but it’s great.