thantik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Very nice. This gets rid of any questionably legal gray area of using sites like Nyaa, etc for Torrent links. Also provides a bit of robustness against censorship when those sites get taken down. Looks like I’m gonna have to set up proxmox on a machine this weekend, as Windows sucks dick for docker containers and that’s what I’ve got most of my *arr stuff hosted on currently.
It’ll be a good thing anyways, as most of those instances aren’t running through my VPN yet and I should just centralize them on proxmox and run all the torrents, etc through containerized instances for security.
kungen@feddit.nu 1 year ago
Except that now you’re asking the swarm for metadata behind a boatload of info_hashes? Unlikely anyone would care (though you’d be surprised how many DMCAs I get when just having a simple open tracker running, not even an indexet), but I don’t see it as being any less grey than using any existing sites.
thantik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In some jurisdictions hosting links to pirated content is considered illegal. In others it is not.
kungen@feddit.nu 1 year ago
That’s also the case with open trackers (without indexers), yet I’ve gotten shut down way too many times. But that made me wonder, does this project share metadata if someone else in the DHT swarm queries for an info_hash you have, or does it simply “leech”? Pretty cool project regardless.