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#bittorrent

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Jared Jennings

I just read that nps.gov erased Harriet Tubman from a page about the Underground Railroad. I want not only to #archive copies of websites, but to use #cryptography to prove that this was the content fetchable from the real page at a date in the past. #provenance Why aren't there FAQs about how to do this already? I've just seen sciop.net which appears to be using both #BitTorrent and #RDF to advantage; and #ArchiveTeam appears to be doing distributed fetching at scale with their ArchiveWarrior thingy. But how should anyone trust that I don't tamper with the pages I fetch and archive? Or what if I just want free backups, so I pass off my photo archive as part of #memoryhole 'd DEI policies? And where's #ipfs or #dat or #hypercore ?

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petersuber

Update. "#SciOp is part of Safeguarding Research & Culture (#SRC). The bits must flow: let us resurrect the ancient art of #Bittorrent to ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear."
sciop.net/

sciop.netSciOp - Public Information PreservationPreserving Public Information
#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenSource
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Charlotte Aten

I was curious about ZeroNet again today. ZeroNet was a web project from the 2010s along similar lines to I2P (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P) and hidden services. The idea of hosting dynamic webpages in a completely P2P fashion, like torrents, remains super cool and appealing to me. In fact, at one point the company had a similar proposal (bittorrent.com/blog/2014/12/10).

The ZeroNet website (zeronet.io/) is still up, but the project hasn't been updated in five years as per the GitHub repo (github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNe). Someone was maintaining a fork at some point, and at other times I heard that ZeroNet was (now?) insecure, although I know no details. Certainly anything P2P isn't anonymous by default.

I found this question (github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNe) about the creator of ZeroNet. Disturbingly, this article (newsbtc.com/news/sam-maloney-c) about a different developer killed by the police under unusual circumstances was shared.

My impression was that ZeroNet actually worked (works?) to some extent. Why aren't projects like this being funded? We need censorship-resistant ways of communicating online, after all.

en.wikipedia.orgI2P - Wikipedia
#ZeroNet#I2P#censorship
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James House-Lantto (He/Him)

torrentfreak.com/director-uses

The director of the Pirate Bay documentary "TPB-AFK" is issuing take down notices to get the movie removed from YouTube, because he believes the site as a radicalizing platform full of hate. The director states that the film, which is creative-commons licensed is still available plenty of other places, and suggests BitTorrent.

torrentfreak.comDirector Uses Takedowns to Remove Pirate Bay Docu "TPB-AFK" from YouTube * TorrentFreakThe director of the Pirate Bay documentary TPB-AFK has sent takedown notices to YouTube requesting its removal.
#ThePirateBay#Bittorrent#Documentary
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Hamish Campbell

VisionOnTV: A Lost Future of Grassroots Video

Nearly 20 years ago, we built something radical. #VisionOnTV wasn’t just another platform, it was a #4opens movement. A bold attempt to break free from corporate-controlled media and give people the tools to create and share activist-driven, alternative television. We weren’t waiting for permission; we were building the future we wanted to see. Before #YouTube became the advertising surveillance monolith it is today, we had a different vision. One where video wasn’t just disposable […]

hamishcampbell.com/visionontv-

#youtube#visionontv#tv
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Nemo_bis 🌈

@chpietsch @nichtich @hvdsomp I think the joke is on the programmable vs. legal definition of "accessible". You might have a license for some "FAIR" data, but if it's with one of the major publishers it's unusable anyway. Whereas with #bittorrent everything is much easier. Everyone is resigned to this as the supposedly "transformative" agreements have failed to make publishers more open, so access equals SciHub/AnnasArchive for the unwashed masses.

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