Just thinking about something here. What if one were to make a hidden website that was the repository of videos and had one (or more) client-facing site(s) as the proxy(ies)? That way, went one gets DDoSed or whatever other problem, it is just the proxy getting taken down, not the hidden repository of videos. The only entity that could figure out the hidden site would be the hosting site of the proxies. Thus, new proxies could be made in literally an hour.
The data on the proxies would be extremely "thin" and easily replicated. Drunk, but am I missing something?
Sounds like you want a PeerTube instance running on a TOR Node or similar dark web service.
I can also point out some other p2p & decentralized web technologies.
PeerTube - a free and open-source, decentralized, federated video platform powered by ActivityPub and WebTorrent, that uses peer-to-peer technology to reduce load on individual servers when viewing videos.
ActivityPub - an open, decentralized social networking protocol based on Pump.io's ActivityPump protocol. It provides a client/server API for creating, updating, and deleting content, as well as a federated server-to-server API for delivering notifications and content.
Hypercore Protocol - a distributed append-only log. Hypercore comes with a secure transport protocol, making it easy to build fast and scalable peer-to-peer applications. Think lightweight blockchain crossed with BitTorrent.
IPFS - The InterPlanetary File System is a protocol and peer-to-peer network to make the web faster, safer, and more open. IPFS is designed for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify each file in a global namespace connecting all computing devices.
Beaker Browser - a free and open-source web browser currently in development by Blue Link Labs. Beaker Browser peer-to-peer technology allows users to self-publish websites and web apps directly from the browser, without the need to set up and administrate a separate web server or host their content on a third-party server. All files and websites are transferred using Dat, a hypermedia peer-to-peer protocol which allows files to be shared and hosted by several users. The browser also supports the HTTP protocol to connect to traditional servers.
The top is what I saw before upvoting you. You had a negative one in the positive left side, haha (that should be impossible). When I upvoted you in the bottom section, the positive left side went to zero. This site is just getting wacky.
We have bots and losers down voating stuff. I'm one of the top posters on this site so much of my content gets down voats no matter what.
There are plenty of leftists here now trying to subvert the site because they can't directly screw with us. Your posting ratio affects your posting ability. Too much negative and your bot account is now worthless.
This method works for some time, but depending how popular it gets and how bad other actors want the videos pulled, they can do some correlation and figure out where the real parent repository is and from there find it's physical location etc. I've seen some large scale CP distribution (and other) ops traced when the criminal had a solid setup.
Thanks. But it won't happen from me. My life is a disaster right now, haha. I figured I'd throw it out there. If I can get my life back in order, hell yeah I would try to help on this venture.
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greydragon ago
Just thinking about something here. What if one were to make a hidden website that was the repository of videos and had one (or more) client-facing site(s) as the proxy(ies)? That way, went one gets DDoSed or whatever other problem, it is just the proxy getting taken down, not the hidden repository of videos. The only entity that could figure out the hidden site would be the hosting site of the proxies. Thus, new proxies could be made in literally an hour.
The data on the proxies would be extremely "thin" and easily replicated. Drunk, but am I missing something?
Dark_Shroud ago
Sounds like you want a PeerTube instance running on a TOR Node or similar dark web service.
I can also point out some other p2p & decentralized web technologies.
PeerTube - a free and open-source, decentralized, federated video platform powered by ActivityPub and WebTorrent, that uses peer-to-peer technology to reduce load on individual servers when viewing videos.
ActivityPub - an open, decentralized social networking protocol based on Pump.io's ActivityPump protocol. It provides a client/server API for creating, updating, and deleting content, as well as a federated server-to-server API for delivering notifications and content.
Hypercore Protocol - a distributed append-only log. Hypercore comes with a secure transport protocol, making it easy to build fast and scalable peer-to-peer applications. Think lightweight blockchain crossed with BitTorrent.
IPFS - The InterPlanetary File System is a protocol and peer-to-peer network to make the web faster, safer, and more open. IPFS is designed for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify each file in a global namespace connecting all computing devices.
Beaker Browser - a free and open-source web browser currently in development by Blue Link Labs. Beaker Browser peer-to-peer technology allows users to self-publish websites and web apps directly from the browser, without the need to set up and administrate a separate web server or host their content on a third-party server. All files and websites are transferred using Dat, a hypermedia peer-to-peer protocol which allows files to be shared and hosted by several users. The browser also supports the HTTP protocol to connect to traditional servers.
greydragon ago
Thanks for the information.
This site just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Check out these screenshots of your comment:
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The top is what I saw before upvoting you. You had a negative one in the positive left side, haha (that should be impossible). When I upvoted you in the bottom section, the positive left side went to zero. This site is just getting wacky.
Anyway, cheers!
Dark_Shroud ago
Thanks you.
I'm going to add Freenet to my above post.
If you haven't already I'd recommend this add-on.
https://privacybadger.org/
If you're not using Brave or another browser that has this security feature built in, https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
We have bots and losers down voating stuff. I'm one of the top posters on this site so much of my content gets down voats no matter what.
There are plenty of leftists here now trying to subvert the site because they can't directly screw with us. Your posting ratio affects your posting ability. Too much negative and your bot account is now worthless.
1-eyed-king ago
welcome to jamstack and 2016
privategoat ago
This method works for some time, but depending how popular it gets and how bad other actors want the videos pulled, they can do some correlation and figure out where the real parent repository is and from there find it's physical location etc. I've seen some large scale CP distribution (and other) ops traced when the criminal had a solid setup.
AnotherGrayman ago
Sounds like a damn good idea.
What's it gonna take to make it happen?
greydragon ago
Thanks. But it won't happen from me. My life is a disaster right now, haha. I figured I'd throw it out there. If I can get my life back in order, hell yeah I would try to help on this venture.