The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old::undefined

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

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        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.

  • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
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    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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      Seeing all the flags of different countries sharing the torrent makes me think this is what international cooperation looks like.

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    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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      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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        Mostly for western developed countries where you will get fucked up by the government for pirating. ISP’s in US Canada and UK will sue normal middle class people for torrenting, unless you mask your IP with the correct VPN.

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          Canada limits the amount that a company can sue for downloading pirated media to the point where it’s not worth it for the company to actually take it to court. The company can ask the ISP to send an email to try to scare the user, but that’s about it.

        • Archr@lemmy.world
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          I have never heard of this happening. And I’ve gotten multiple cease and desist letters from my ISP. ISPs don’t really have the case for a suit anyways, but there are third party companies that companies like Disney will pay to watch torrents for them and ask your ISP to send you that letter.

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            A decade or so ago, there were some widely-publicized cases of folks who got absolutely ruined with six- or seven-figure judgements against them for copyright infringement.

            Example from 2012.

            Maybe it was a tactic the copyright cartel used in the mid-2000s and then stopped or something, but it was enough to shift folks’ behavior such that using VPNs became the norm.

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            1 year ago

            Fines. And say you seeded a movie to 1000 people and a DVD of the movie costs $20, they sue you for $20000, treating it like you broke into a warehouse and stole 1000 DVDs of the movie.

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