are p2p programs (and usenet) still alive or did everyone just move to torrents and sites like mega?
>>107608723>are p2p programs (and usenet) still alivevarious p2p things still exist and work, usenet traffic is never ending and enormous. DC+ still exists too, along with various IRC DCC sites.>like mega?people that are still using cancerous direct download sites in current year are stupid retards
>>107608723>>107608785>p2pI heckin LOVE opening my ports and have a dogshit insecure C++ client accept connections from the Russians and the Chinese scanning for vulns, definitely no zero days in p2p clients no xir
>>107608800>when you're this computer illiteratelow iq niggers, everyone
>>107608823https://github.com/0xedh/hichip-p2p-firmware-rce
>>107608785>people that are still using cancerous direct download sites in current year are stupid retardsNo letters from ISP. No exposing your IP to random retards who make the torrenting history of an IP public. Everything in your media category is catalogued in one place and easily found by searches. I'm not talking about mega though.
>>107608723>Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chroniclesnice
>>107608723Usenet? That's just what I use to read the news. It's in the name. I just wanna read the heckin news for god's sake! That's why I subscribe to newshosting.com. God damn kids, stick to your torrents, I don't know nothin' about "p2p" or "pirated content".
>>107608908>No exposing your IP to random retardsexcept the site you're downloading from, and all of these direct dl sites hand over ip addresses all the time. not even tyring, are you, retard?
>>107609321is this a bot post?
>>107609356It's fine. The Russian download site isn't going to report you to anyone for copyright infringement. Torrents have nosy spies that log your downloads. I trust the direct download sites like my personal drug dealer.Any higher level of paranoia means you use a VPN for practically everything. In which case, the direct download sites are still convenient because they've catalogued a lot of related content in one place.
>>107609371Yes, I'm a bot. Now get yourself a netflix subscription, sonny boy! Ain't no need for news for you zoomers, get back to your tiktoks for god's sake.
Soulseek is alive
>>107609321>he pays for usenet
>console warring ways to pirate>instead of choosing what makes the most sense for a given use case>not having multiple options>not having the actual best option
>>107609393Well shit son, I guess I'm not a tech whizzz genius like you who can download old news without paying. God bless you son!
>>107609414That's a classic /ptg/ topic so all the info about it is in the archives
>>107609376Let's put it like this: many people are fine connecting to 4chan without VPN.But let's imagine 4chan was P2P and your IP was publicly associated with your posts. You'd then have a persistent IP correspondence with every thread you view and every post you make. That's fucking retarded. Nobody would want to do that without a VPN because it means exposing your IP and what you're up to to countless random retards.
>>107609455There's a hierarchy of things I care about people knowing came from my IP address. >wow anon you downloaded the whole Weezer discography?Versus>wow anon you're into weird fetish porn and called that guy the n word
>>107608908ISP's haven't sent me a letter or email in over 8 years and I don't use VPN or proxy
>>107609455They're fine with it due to the nature of 4chan, not because of inherent personal values. 99% of VPN IP ranges are banned here. And if you'd like to use a VPN here, then you have to pay for a pass. If you gave people a choice, I'm guessing most of them would turn their VPN on if it meant they could still post here. The reason people post so much messed up stuff, personal information and otherwise material that they normally wouldn't post directly from their own IP address is because initially they understand the nature of the website and then they become used to the culture here and relax their control
>>107609449Well see here son, I sure do appreciate the info, but my newhosting subscription is what I call a "negligible expense", and after all I just want to read the news with minimal fuss.
>>107608723it all still works, but its remains niche because the laws around p2p are still bullshit.
>>107608723utorrent 221+any torrent site
>>107610108That's fine and all but I consider subscriptions of any kind to be a fuss.
eMule is still going, its useful for those hard to find coomvids
>>107608723WinMX is still arround.
>>107608723torrent is a p2p program dummy
>>107610216No it isn't
