The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old

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• fristislurper@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For the lazy: “The oldest surviving torrent we have seen is a copy of the Matrix fan film “The Fanimatrix”.”

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  • wild@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But is it any good?

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Valid question.

      But if it’s the dumbest shit in existence, it’s still worth seeding because it’s a part of history.

      It’s like if Terror Toons was the first torrent ever.

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• TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s really neat to see something like this still going. Torrenting is a cool technology, it’s fun to download and then seed a file, knowing that now other people will get to enjoy it.

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seeing all the flags of different countries sharing the torrent makes me think this is what international cooperation looks like.

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• Mythnubb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well… I guess I’m seeding it now too

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  • BeanCounter@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    seed4memez

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  • CerineArkweaver@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ditto. cue “I’m doing my part” from Starship Troopers

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  • JonEFive@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Imagine if this article was written just because the author was having trouble downloading it because there weren’t enough seeders.

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• nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wonder what percentage of the total internet traffic, since inception, can be attributed to this protocol.

  I bet it’s pretty high

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  • 50MYT@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also which periods of time was it higher or lower percentages.

    Willing to bet at its inception it was higher than it was when Netflix arrived.

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  • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Probably less than spam email.

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    • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Multiple games has been using it to distribute updates

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• Konstant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s not even a ilegal download. Cool.

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• ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Torrenting is the way to go. Especially with VPN port forwarding now.

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  • dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seems like some VPNs are pulling back from port forwarding. Was a bummer that Mullvad did, probably due to legal pressure

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    • emax_gomax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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  • Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why is VPN port forwarding relevant here?

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    • ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mostly for western developed countries where you will get fucked up by the government for pirating. ISP’s in US Canada nd UK will sue normal middle class people for torrenting.

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• NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Fanimatrix sounds like it should be a porn parody to me. Or some kind of detailed database and analysis of vaginas.

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  • JonEFive@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The OnlyFanimatrix?

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• baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Did Linux OSs move into torrents later? I’m surprised one of those isn’t an older active torrent. I mean sure there’s no point in actually installing those OSs now but people would still seed.

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  • ceiphas@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ther’s really no point in seeding a 20 year old iso of an os that evolves that quickly

    20 years ago we were on the 2.4 kernel just shortly before switching to 2.6, wifi was a mess, GPUs were even more mess

    now om gaming on my linux machine with better FPS than the windows version

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    • n00b001@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Any Linux distro do HDR / VRR yet?

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• phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fuck I’m old. I remember discovering Bit Torrent.

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