We could build the next piratebay/rarbg entirely on nostr and no one could take it down...🤯
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Yes but the way forward is zaps
I dare 3 letter agencies to try and take down hundreds of relays...
As an avid torrenter this is something I'd be interested in.
Interesting, how do you envision that looking?
Nice!!
All you need is a chat channel people can follow that posts magnet links.
Simply proposing a new event kind for sharing bittorrent magnetic links with some extra metadata (title, description, media info, size) and building a webclient that can visualize there torrent listings just like in tpb/rarbg.
You can even reply to these events with regular kind=1 notes that would work as comments to the torrent listing and people can zap the listing as part of supporting the original torrent creator.
Chat is too closed, that could work for private trackers but I would prefer open listings with comments.
I'm envisioning a nostr bot that crawls the torrent DHT and that you can DM with a search query, and it sends magnet links to the torrent
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It's constantly taken down and its a game of cat and mouse trying to find their new domain.
Their survival story is laudable but I'm pretty sure they had many prolonged server downtimes, not just domain seizures.
Building it on nostr would provide additional benefits: interoperable comments, zapping torrent creators, creators could have a web of trust reputation on the torrents they post, popcorntime like clients could easily integrate with this to kill Netflix, etc.
Too closed? The chat that's actually just public posts, with a "this belongs in this chat" tag.
Oh sorry didn't know you meant public chat.
I would still prefer a listings browsable interface.
That’s a neat idea. One issue is that everyone would know that you’ve communicated with the bot, because DM metadata is not private.
I assume you are referring to building trackers on top of nostr, or file transfers itself?
BitTorrent has already proven to be incredibly resilient
Just sharing magnetic links
Yeah I think that is a great idea
This note inspired me
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Some (new) kind of content-note adding some metadata to the magnet link would be nice (type, title, author, external links, ...)
- Some webs/apps could be created to put together all those content-note, allowing users to search and to react to them.
- People could validate the quality of the content, react to it (like, zaps, comment).
- A community of users could form around this.
- TBD (to be discovered...)
Exactly
You can always use a throaway anon account.
To make DMs "less persistent", the bot could use ephemeral messages. It could still encrypt them DM-style, but ephemeral = not persisted by relays.
Yes, I've seen you have already proposed something very similar in another comment, although much better explained 😊:
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I already have some ideas
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It would need a very robust searching tool.
No, they already realised they can't take down a decentralised network using packet switching in 1969 when DARPA saw the centralised point to point network is vurnable for attack and hence created the internet.
They also leave torrent up- and downloaders allone as the ROI makes it cost prohibitive.