Hello,
can anyone explain to a layman like myself how torrents work and how/why they have succeeded in resisting censorship? Or, point a fellow stacker to a link, 🤙
29 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 17 Oct
Watch the TPB documentary #721589
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 17 Oct
You can tell if files are the same across multiple systems by their hash, which is like a calculation of the 1's and 0's of their contents
Torrents describe a file by its hash, and contain a list of relays where users that have a copy of this file advertise it (like a nostr relay, but in torrent nomenclature they're called trackers)
Torrent is censorship resistant because anyone can have a copy of a file, and then advertise it on multiple trackers... since its basically impossible to shut down every tracker and copy of the file it's been unstoppable
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17 sats \ 0 replies \ @nym 17 Oct
Good explanation about file hashes and splitting up the files
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