Passive vs active bots? I stopped using xdcc because nowadays lots of networks stopped using the right naming for passive/active bots. However in scenep2p the bots seems to be well named.

Its hashes use an outdated algorithm.

It’s good enough for file transfer. Two different files having the same MD4 hash does not mean their blocks will also match block-for-block for AICH. Matching block by block is not a trivial task. This is not done by a guy in a bedroom. If an actor has this capacity, and it’s after you, then you should be concerned about other stuff than your downloads,

Torrent files are more complete and reliable that e2k links.

I have no idea what do you mean with more complete.

Speed is also way better on bittorrent nowadays

I can reach the same speeds with emule (if the file has enough seeds). And i can reach them faster on emule - but it is probably because i already have a lots of upload credits in emule vs using a public torrent with thousands of seeds.

Also BitTorrent is better at avoiding cluster on your router. E2k peers will hit your router for apparently unknown reasons all the time even if you are not sharing anything.

I have no idea what you are talking about. Never had issues.

There’s reasons why people moved away from it.

People moved away from it, when razorback2 server got shutdown and the admins got arrested. Not because of protocol issues. BitTorrent is also able to attract new users more easily because it is more forgiving to leechers (Long-term credits vs immediate reciprocity)

For the end user: it’s a program with everything included. You don’t need to visit any website to find files to download. You can search directly what other people are sharing and download from it.

Now the client evolved since it first appeared but has maintained compability.

Initially you need to connect to a server that would list the files people connected to that server were sharing, then they added a DHT and now you don’t need to use those servers. However people still use them mainly because the search is faster.

Please note that sharing is very easy. Just select a folder and you are sharing whatever is in that folder. This creates a lot content to share, but also the quality might not be good. For good quality it’s better to have the files curated and for that i recommend to use a community that shares ed2k links (they are like magnet links) for the good and quality stuff (similar to use piratebay vs a private tracker - on pirate bay you might not get the best of whatever you want)

So instead of torrents, which are shared between each peer without a centralizing server, eD2K needs thoose servers.

The servers just index the files people are sharing. Basically what you are saying is the same as saying that In the torrent world you also need to use a server (the tracker).

The same way you can search the mesh directly in bittorrent, you can use KAD in emule to search for files. No server required.

As a protocol is worse in everyway that BitTorrent.

No it is not. Please don’t talk about shit you don’t know. If anything it was too ahead of the time since the internet speeds available at the time were crap (for example compare the emule’s 9MiB block with the original 512KiB from bittorrent), and also it was the first one to bring almost all the concepts that bittorrent uses.

People complain about the lowid, but at the same time they want to run it without opening ports to external connections like they do for bittorrent. Fortunately there’s already a emule mod (emuleai) that allows lowid to lowid. Hopefully amule will follow it soon.

Thanks! It’s very hard to find the protocol info.

Understandable reasons. Thanks Anime Tosho for your contribution! You’ll be missed!

gtkg is the only client being updated. you can then use the GUI. gtkg is very light.

install gtk-gnutella and run it. Configure to share your files, leave it runing and that’s it.

That’s cool! Unfortunately there’s not much people sharing files… Let me start gtkg and check it.

but if nobody is using it…

Someone needs to start it :-)

If you want webinterface, then there’s nothing. gnutella is way too old for that shit. If you don’t mind connecting to a server via ssh, there’s gtk-gnutella. It has --shell flag. You need to write commands. There’s no TUI. If you just want to share from there, there’s no issue, but if you want to search and download from the search you are better using the normal gtk-gnutella (without the --shell) flag.

I’ve tried to use the shell mode, long time ago and it was complicated. So i never did it. It was long time ago.

There’s gtk-gnutella. It has --shell flag. You need to write commands. There’s no TUI. If you just want to share from there, there’s no issue, but if you want to search and download from the search you are better using the normal gtk-gnutella (without the --shell) flag.

I’ve tried to use the shell mode, long time ago and it was complicated. So i never did it. It was long time ago.

You can use any torrent client with search included. For example: qbittorrent, frostwire, etc…

Anyway check FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH! https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide#torrent-sites

usenet is decentralized at server level. In theory all the servers have the same content. Currently everything is obfuscated because of the take downs - so you need an indexer (the users upload the nzbs to that website. Think of a nzb like a .torrent file.)

I have ports forwarded locally to deal with my router, that doesn’t apply to my ISP down the line.

So you are under CGNAT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT

From the wikipedia link:

Carrier-grade NAT usually prevents the ISP customers from using port forwarding, because the network address translation (NAT) is usually implemented by mapping ports of the NAT devices in the network to other ports in the external interface. This is done so the router will be able to map the responses to the correct device; in carrier-grade NAT networks, even though the router at the consumer end might be configured for port forwarding, the “master router” of the ISP, which runs the CGN, will block this port forwarding because the actual port would not be the port configured by the consumer.[7] In order to overcome the former disadvantage, the Port Control Protocol (PCP) has been standardized in the RFC 6887.

You will only be able to upload to someone with a public ip address or with UDP hole punch (but there are some technicalities - and doesn’t work in all the cases). The same will happen if you use torrents. Maybe you don’t notice difference because of the sheer amount of people using seedboxes and vpn.

Typical reply from an islamist that never left the muslim country where he lives. Where were you crying when Turkey had the same law?

Abayas and qamis are religious garments. However only women were the abayas. Why don’t the men wear the qamis? What a strange thing: In a mysogynist religion the woman are so religious that wear religious garments! Lol.

it is one with far greater complexity than can be solved with sledgehammer legislation

Yes it’s better to not do anything. Because it might hurt the feelings of muslims…

even if some people do benefit, because many do not.

Even if 1 person benefits with the law then the law is worth it. Or do you think that the law needs to benefit everybody? The law needs to protect the most vunerable. In this case the muslim women.

Oh, we are doing quotes now? I prefer this one from an ex-muslim:

My school and my family became increasingly radicalised in the 2000s - 2010s and while I used to wear the headscarf, I never used to wear the abaya. At home, I was being reprimanded for wearing non-loose fitting clothes. At school, I was told by a Muslim girl to start wearing more modest clothes and think about the Hereafter. Everywhere in the Muslim community at my college, there was ´Islam’. There was this pressure to act like a pious Muslim. The Islamic society segregated girls and boys. One Friday sermon included the reminder for « sisters to stop distracting the brothers »! I saw a Muslim girl put on the headscarf. She came to the prayer room and eventually she started wearing the scarf. I think there was another girl I knew too who did the same.

Eventually, I started wearing the abaya alongside my headscarf. This lasted a week because I could not handle it anymore.

It is therefore not true to say that a Muslim woman wearing an abaya is cultural and about her freedom. What France is seeing is a radicalisation of Muslim youth. Girls coming to school in ´modest’ Islamic clothing will actively encourage other more moderate Muslim girls to do the same. Just like it happened to me.

Good! The rules are for everybody. Freedom from religion!