Comment on The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old

• emax_gomax@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not legal pressure, government pressure. They kept getting asked to disclose which accounts had which ports associated with then and share all the info on them they kept (which for some payment methods they do briefly). So they decided to remove the feature rather than potentially violate their founding principle of privacy and anonymity. Kudos to them. Of course f*ck the CSAM assholes who made the government get involved in this and cost us this feature.

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  • dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is very depressing. The arms race between bad actors and repressive governments keeps whittling away at our right to privacy

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• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  why do you need port forwarding if you have VPN?

  Its been a long, long time since i’ve used torrents in any form, so I have no idea.

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  • dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You need it for seeding

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    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I do want to note that you can still seed if your port isn’t forwarded. For every seed connection, only one person out of the pair needs a forwarded port.

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      • dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Good point. It just means that only people who themselves are likely to be seeders can download from me. Which is better than nothing, but not ideal!

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