After extensive search of anonymous file sharing, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s the best solution to date, with none of the flaws of the much (too much) advertised Bitbinder, VPNs, rapidshare, usenet, etc, and it’s free.

Granted, the i2p project has managed to keep itself quite discreet, and as a result it does not have yet the wealth of material that popular torrent sites have.

But with the clampdown on file sharing, I do believe that it is the only truly viable solution in the long run, and I expect that more and more people will join in.

And as more people join in, more material will be available and faster will the transfers be.

In sum, keep using what you currently use, but join us as well on i2p, until i2p becomes the only necessary tool.

Let’s rock that boat a little bit.

I’ve seen some ISPs in this area (outside of my ability to get service but still near here) that offer 3-5 times more upload bandwidth than I get for the same price I’m paying. Enough bandwidth to actually make P2P interesting.

They can’t keep up its a FACT.

We will not let them take this away..we are hidden but we are an intelligent powerful ARMY.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

Money is ripping of my time, my thoughts and my creativity to create and build what ever I want and enjoy myself of giving it to someone and receiving a smile and warmth of joy. Money puts me trough school and into a world without perspective on a 70h/week job that I hate. Bound to the everyday pressure circle of “geting money in” to survive in that slavery system just to feed my children, pay my bills and buying anything else because of lacking SPARE TIME to build it myself or think it all out.

copyright is like money … a human illusion made out of thin air to get all humans to think in one way that can be easily predicted. Well thanks to paper, letter printing, books and finally the Internet and the early modem days … it isn’t just big philosophers and presidents that get the word out and discus it with a lot of people (besides the past is public common! At least a lot of it is). And of course as in every system … forces want to control and cencor that power and use it to their own interest and profit.

What ever is needed is maybe enough with a exit-node-cloud system on the current ipv4 system … but it will be obsolete within a ipv6 system. politicians and lobbies take ipv6 as new control perspective … so they will push it!
Sadly I don’t have time to put it all together. What ever is needed it will not be a exit-node-cloud system relaying peers in between a connection to servers. And no company will “sell” us the solution! that whole One-Server/N-Clients concept need to be redesigned more redundant and clusterd over peers whatsoever.

Todays business is based on ripping of. Good Deals are those ripping of to some extend on human- or material- resources.
I don’t buy music, because labels will rip of the artists and studios so I donate on existing paypal account or buy stuff like shirts and posters to be sure that they see more of my money. I never was into movies or series .. but I really like documentaries so producers and studios will get some donation or I buy some of their fan merchandise. I try to take the least-rip-of way to get most of my money to the people who deserve it.

I’ve commented on a few other posts on TorrentFreak about I2P but just in case others don’t know…

I2P allows one to share files via torrent, gnutella and other means without the data ever hitting the normal internet. I2P has it’s own torrent trackers also.

After some testing, I highly suggest 0.7.4-3 version of I2P (with the GUI). It is way faster than 0.7.4-0 (latest stable). You can pick up 0.7.4-3 here (public way to access the echelon.i2p eepsite):
http://echelon.i2p.to/0.7.4/0.7.4-3/

Pup2p (Puppy Linux remaster aimed for I2P use) has finally been released. It is a Linux LiveCD distro with a lot of I2P related apps including the above mentioned version of I2P. The easiest way to share files via torrent on I2P is to install I2P and i2pfox, launch both and once everything is going, check out the “Torrents” bookmark folder. i2psnark is the torrent client. Tracker2 is the main torrent tracker on I2P. It may take some use to get used to but once you know how to use everything, it’s easy.
Pup2p:
http://www.censorshipsucksballs.com/2009/06/pup2p-puppy-linux-livecd-aimed-for-use-with-the-anonymous-network-i2p/

It has become a whole lot easier to install these days too.

So please.. n00bs to the idea of online privacy take a look. It might be the best chance we have at a free file sharing world.

http://freenetproject.org/

What makes p2p users hard to handle is their vast open numbers. When some go to VPNs, the rest will be easier to handle. Also, the ISPs will have an easyer time blocking or throtling the VPNs IP lists. It’s a lose/lose situation for the p2p users.
If you really want to support the BT community, consider donating to the trackers, seed more, helping eachother, etc.

To pay for destribution (directly or indirectly) I would prefere getting stuff from iTunes and etc, but it would null all the concept.

I compare people who gets in the VPN p2p specialized subscription scheme to those in here that read something and throw a panic fit(running in circles screamming and pulling hair out comes to mind) without thinking racionaly for two secounds.

Civil desobidience IS the key. Manifest, rallys, meetings, letters, posts, blogging, etc. And the bigger the numbers, the bigger chance we have to keep the p2p (and the Web) free. Pressure the bastards!
You can’t expect to keep afloat when you’re divided.

Hey moron digital reproductions (MP3s and avi formats) are not 1:1 copy!

Enjoy..

The usenet provider is still situated in a country; that in turn has jurisdiction, that in turn could be that they need to keep records of your useage.
And you’re full circle.

There are some hints at what the real problem is however; VPNs and other obscuring measures are just a way to get around the now, but what we need is a SOLUTION. Either the laws or the industry need to go away, because filesharing surely isn’t.

I have been voting Pirate Party and will continue to do so until this saddened state of big brotherism and consumer oppression stops.
I’d rather live in a world with “no content” or only “shitty homemade content” (because I know that hobby bands can play quite awesome, thank you very much pro-industry fagtards) rather than be considered a criminal for duplicating bits(i.e. not even stealing, but simply increasing total available count/amount of information).

Things need to change. Go out and vote so that they do. Don’t be a forumtard.

“Those who would trade a little freedom for a little security will deserve neither, and shall lose both”.

See ya on the news when IPv6 becomes a reality (so you can be uniquely identified by your IP), and VPNs get outlawed. Shouldn’t take more than 3-4 years.

“Those who would trade a little freedom for a little security will deserve neither, and shall lose both”.

See ya on the news when IPv6 becomes a reality (so you can be uniquely identified by your IP), and VPNs get outlawed.

Why don’t they wake up and change their business model? I’d pay £30 – £40 a month for an unlimited download service, where the files died after a month. Now you could either just download it again next month, or buy it for real. Just how many albums do you listen to each month, and you realise that paying £30 – £40 a month would actually make the industry cash. WTF? Everyone would be happy. I’d get to not worry about a knock on the door whilst watching and listening to everything I want. The entertainment industry would get a user who pays for four or five virtual albums/movies a month. That’s an enormous bucket load more than the average consumer today (well, maybe not more than me at the moment, but that’s cos I’m greedy and want to keep the real thing). Anyway, back to the annon services. I’m interested!

There are millions of people torrenting. :)

I shouldn’t have to elaborate on it because the answer is obvious.

No it’s not. That would be why I’m asking for clarification.

Anyone that downloads a movie, game, song etc…without paying for it is ripping off the copyright owner.

Not true. You’re not taking anything from them, so how can you rip them off?

It can’t go on like this forever, but for now, it’s all we got. It’s justice for the injustice. They owe us and society as a whole trading money for happiness at an extortion level.

And the copyright holders are inarguably ripping off the artists. So what’s your point?

Who’s getting ripped off by filesharing?

If you’re going to post something, elaborate on it.

You first.

Name
Address
Date of birth
etc.

Idiot.

Peerguardian is based on lists and lists don’t work they get things wrong all the time and are not reliable how do people really know where the bad guys are?

They can’t, people assume a lot and all that media sentry have to is change proxies every week to defeat peerguardian.

It may block some bad things and that is good but it will not catch everything so it’s not secure enough don’t trust it to save you from landing in a court of law, peerguardian is like a small shield that can protect some parts of your body but not all.

People who don’t call their fans thief’s are having a great time according to the article in the link above.

Netlabel gives music for free to their fans LoL

Is this a sign of it not working?

We endorse it, actually, seeing as all those products we’re supposedly “stealing” are artificially inflated anywhere from two to four times their original price. You say we’re stealing, but it’s a mere act of retribution against others stealing our own money.

And while you worry continuously about getting blocked, about getting your country restricted, about even being arrested for copyright infringement…we sit here calmly pirating all we want because whoever’s running the ISP either does not care about the traffic or doesn’t know how to use it as a tool in the first place.

A bit ironic that what we see as “towers of dictatorial evil” like Russia, China, or, hell, myself in Venezuela, have more freedom than the very “Land of the Free”.

I think it’s time to start questioning that label even more.

Godwin/Reductio ad Hitlerum. Just when I’d been reading about it, too!