Mastodawn

Do any of my #blind followers still #BitTorrent? If so, which accessible client are you using these days, and are you running it behind a VPN? I've recently had to deal with Malware so I'm a bit nervous about continuing to torrent.

TorrentFreak RSS 2d ago

Judge Eviscerates Motions For ISPs to Unmask 2,400 Alleged Hellboy Pirates

https://torrentfreak.com/judge-eviscerates-motions-for-isps-to-unmask-2400-alleged-hellboy-pirates-251107/

#HellboyProductions #JudgeJohnC.Cotter #CopyrightTrolls #bittorrent #Lawsuits

Judge Eviscerates Motions For ISPs to Unmask 2,400 Alleged Hellboy Pirates * TorrentFreak

A judge at Canada's Federal Court has eviscerated an attempt to unmask 2,400 alleged pirates of the movie Hellboy: The Crooked Man.

Benjamin Geer 3d ago

I started writing a Bittorrent client in Rust, and since I wanted to learn about nom and Serde, I ended up writing a Bencode library: https://codeberg.org/benjamingeer/bside I was disappointed to learn that Bencode isn't pronounced Ben-code 😄 #rust #rustlang #bittorrent #p2p

bside

A Bencode parser in Rust, with Serde support.

Codeberg.org

jonny (good kind)5d ago

Here's another #FEP for representing torrents on activitypub :)

short, sweet, and with a reference implementation and tests!

towards a federated bittorrent tracker with #sciop !

PR: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/714

Discussion: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-d8c8-bittorrent-torrent-objects/8309 (or this thread)

#FEP_d8c8 #BitTorrentOverActivityPub #FederatedP2P #BitTorrent

FEP-d8c8: BitTorrent `Torrent` Objects

Related to our plans with [sciop](https://sciop.net) becoming a federated bittorrent tracker, this very simple FEP describes how to represent torrents via ActivityStreams :) discussion: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-d8c8-bittorrent-torrent-objects/8309

Codeberg.org

Simone:cthulhu:Nov 1

Hello, I just finished publishing xmpp-it.net happyhour podcasts and videos on #bittorrent

I did this again from scratch because the old .torrent files had a not working tracker, so I just replaced it with udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce

In addition to that content, I have also shared Schimon Jehudah's presentations about #Blasta and #Rivista journal (both XMPP software - English language) and the latest talk at #LinuxDayTorino by @laic_salocin about #lineageos and xmpp.

Everything is in #Italian language.
You can find the files to be downloaded here:

https://woodpeckersnest.space/p2p

Resources are not infinite; if you care about this content, keep sharing as much as you can.

#xmpp #xmppit #happyhour #podcast #linuxday2025

Thanks

P2P

woodpeckers' space: offering free IT services to friends/acquaintances and paid IT services too

Winbuzzer Oct 31

Meta Seeks Dismissal of $359M "Pirated Porn" Lawsuit, Claims Downloads Were for Personal Use

#AI #Meta #Copyright #Lawsuit #TechLaw #GenAI #FairUse #IntellectualProperty #BigTech #Piracy #BitTorrent #AIEthics

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/10/31/meta-seeks-dismissal-of-359m-pirated-porn-lawsuit-claims-downloads-were-for-personal-use-xcxwbn

Ars Technica News Oct 30

Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use” https://arstechni.ca/Rj6e #adultcontent #MetaMovieGen #pornography #AItraining #BItTorrent #torrenting #Policy #meta #AI

Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”

Meta says lawsuit claiming it pirated porn to train AI makes no sense.

Ars Technica

YGGverse Oct 29

Finally, #Yggdrasil trackers are now included in the "Updated list of public #BitTorrent trackers" project (#321)
https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist