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 Member 805 Level 19.24 Mar 2006 
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Truth be told, BitTorrent is great for distribution, but downright shitty for privacy. Even with encryption, you have the wide-open hole of your adversary, so to speak, connecting to the swarm and seeing your IP.
This, of course, is true for virtually all file-sharing tools with the exception of Freenet and anything done over Tor or i2p. If you want privacy, you're going to have to sacrifice performance. Sad but true, and that may change in the future if onion routing and crypto are integrated into the core of the next generation of P2P protocols and technologies, but for the time being it's largely a this-or-that deal. I second the suggestion for finding a private DC hub. A private torrent tracker would help too. Private and closed are good in this case, but I'd seek out DC for its current under-the-radar advantage--most of the copyright cartel gestapo are focused on BitTorrent, LimeWire, and the apparently-now-ceremonial beating of the dead horse that is Kazaa. Jam it back in, in the dark. It is not my custom to go where I am not invited. |
Member 805 Level 19.24 Mar 2006
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Sorry for the lateness in getting back to you on this one.
Direct Connect is a kind of fusion of FTP and IRC. You connect to a hub, which maintains a list of connections from other users. Via the hub, you select a user whose shared directories you wish to browse, and you will be directly connected to that user via a connection established by the hub. Alternatively, you can search for a specific file just like any other P2P and the hub will return a list of occurrences of the string for which you searched. The hub also has an IRC-like chat channel and sometimes some other goodies like anagram games, at which I personally am awesome. As for private torrent trackers, Gamingforce has a great one at http://www.gftracker.org There was at one time a GFF DC hub, but I don't know if it still exists. The hub I frequent the most is vgmcentral.no-ip.com. There's nowhere I can't reach. It is not my custom to go where I am not invited. |
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