SCI-HUB NEEDS YOUR HELP!

Do you have a few dozen gigabytes of free diskspace and a machine that can seed it via #bittorrent?

You can help save an unbelievable trough of scientific knowledge from disappearing behind the elites' paywalls!

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Spread the word and seed till you bleed – for the betterment of humanity!

@phryk @schmittlauch Is it possible to route torrent traffic through the tor network to obscure my identity? Or is a vpn the only solution to stay safe while seeding?

@quinn I think it can be used to hide *part* of the traffic (apparently not the DHT metadata stuff, tho) so I'm not sure it'd give you any real anonymity even if you can make it work. Additionally it's considered bad form to put this kind of strain on the tor network.

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Personally I just seed from a public static IP – if I get in trouble for this I'll tell the judge that this is public interest data and then probably get sentenced anyways – tho that hasn't happened yet and I've been seeding things I deem to be of public interest like blueleaks for years now. :)

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Putting all torrenters in jail doesn't much makes practical sense

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Yes, hence my reference to major seeders – it's probably unlikely that any one individual gets jailed, but the powers that be might want to make an example of *some* of the people involved.

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@phryk At least Germany has a history of cases wher it's not about sueing people in fron of a court, but about lawyers getting the permission from rightholders to send cease and desist letters to get rich on their processing fees. @mur2501 @quinn

@schmittlauch
Yes, but if that happens, you can (to the best of my knowledge) just ignore it and see *if* they actually take it to court – otherwise it's completely toothless.

Far as I know they mostly don't because they know their chances aren't all that good.

They're betting on people being scared and just paying the ludicrous moon logic sum they demand.

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@billiam @mur2501 @phryk @quinn @schmittlauch pro: the VPN is a central point of failure. VPNs could in principle be secure, but you roll the dice every time you use one. tribler could have flawed crypto, but if it is...the source code is available under a free license in a non-github server for anyone to catch the flaw and improve it. Adversaries need to track more of the network to do traffic analysis on tribler than your vpn - not impossible for the NSA/CSIS but harder for lawyers in countries like canada.

in principle tribler could be faster, since it has the benefit of many nodes...it's more expensive for vpns to be as fast. Tribler is gratis VPNs aren't.

tribler might be slower, since it uses more hops and relies on a broader number of actors all cooperating is subject to a 'tragedy of the commons' in principle(though the latest code employs a blockchain reward system to encourage people to give bandwidth, and it seems to work ish). it's also constantly being tinkered with by developers so it breaks sometimes whereas vpns are probably relatively stable, they either work or they don't.

tribler, currently, relies a shit ton of dependencies to build that may or may not be available outside of nsa/microsoft github. you may be able to use a vpn with software available directly from debian stable or something
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