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PSA: If you're going to write software for piracy, put it on I2P! (geti2p.net)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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movie-web was just taken down with all its repos, Yuzu was taken down, then suyu forked it on gitlab and was taken down, countless clones of nintendo games, platform emulators, and a bunch of other things are taken down because they are hosted on the clear web.

If you're a dev and planning to write software for piracy, host it on I2P!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

https://geti2p.net/en/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Sound like the tor network? Or am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Different purposes. Tor was intended so you could access the real web anonymously.

I2p the whole thing is an anonymous web. Everybody is a node. Tracing a packet never ends because you can't be sure you found the origin of the packet. Which only gets worse the longer somebody remains connected to i2p. And it even can handle torrenting, a torrent client is built in.

I2P sadly gets a lot less funding/support.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

https://geti2p.net/en/comparison/tor

Perhaps the main differences are:

Unidirectional tunnels instead of bidirectional circuits
Fully distributed and self organizing
Packet switched instead of circuit switched
Tunnels in I2P are short lived
i2p puts an emphasis on communicating within the network, whereas Tor puts more emphasis on communicating via the network to outside

Together these provide some additional resilience and protection against traffic analysis compared to Tor, arguably improving security.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Torrents over i2p: yes! Torrents over tor: no!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! I think it would be a good idea to add a short info blobb directly in your main post tho :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It's not my post so you'd have to ask OP to do that.