What are some (legal) torrents I can seed that help a good cause?
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Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Tor (Tails Iso), other linux isos, internet archive stuff in public domain
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Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?
Wikipedia zim
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Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?
The large wikipedia(and others datasets) .slob files used for AARD2 and other offline readers.
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Debian Trixie just released, so...
Yup just started seeding the 64-bit PC DVD .iso since I figured I'd need it sooner or later, the .torrent links are listed there in the Debian download page https://www.debian.org/distrib/
And of course plenty of other Linux distros have their own torrent links.
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Tor (Tails Iso), other linux isos, internet archive stuff in public domain
Isn't tor risky with police?
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Isn't tor risky with police?
Not really, as long as you don't run an exit node
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Not really, as long as you don't run an exit node
But what if exit node was captured by police and they will get next node and etc
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But what if exit node was captured by police and they will get next node and etc
You're either trolling, or fundamentally don't understand how tor works. Exit nodes carry all the risk as they are the only ones who know what the exit traffic is. Every node before that is encrypted and doesn't know anything other than the next node. Police can capture an exit node all they want, its of no legal concern to the guard and middle if they do. The guard is the only one that knows the originating IP address. There are flaws in tor, don't get me wrong. But that's not one of them.
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But what if exit node was captured by police and they will get next node and etc
Running a Tor relay, even an exit node, is not illegal in most jurisdictions. However, exit node operators may receive a large number of abuse reports and legal threats, which they must properly answer to avoid further trouble and that's why it's not recommended for the individuals to run an exit node.
For those living under authoritarian regimes where Tor might be illegal, the risks are obviously significantly greater.
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Isn't tor risky with police?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Sorry I wrote with haste (Updated my original comment), I meant to say Tails which for those who dont know is an anonymous linux live OS that is preconfigured to use Tor. So I was talking about seeding the Tails disto img.
As for Tor and running a node , it depends on the country. I have been running a non exit node for years with no issues in Europe.
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Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?
Anna's Archive
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Anna's Archive
Not exactly legal as OP requested
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Running a Tor relay, even an exit node, is not illegal in most jurisdictions. However, exit node operators may receive a large number of abuse reports and legal threats, which they must properly answer to avoid further trouble and that's why it's not recommended for the individuals to run an exit node.
For those living under authoritarian regimes where Tor might be illegal, the risks are obviously significantly greater.
For those living under authoritarian regimes
Is the UK in that category?
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For those living under authoritarian regimes
Is the UK in that category?
I'm trying to think of one single world government that isn't brutal authoritarians
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For those living under authoritarian regimes
Is the UK in that category?
Depends who you ask I guess, but at least Tor isn't illegal there, is it?
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Not exactly legal as OP requested
if Facebook can torrent books and get away with it I should be able to too
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if Facebook can torrent books and get away with it I should be able to too
True, but that's still not how it works since we have a multi-tiered justice system where corporations are basically able to get away with whatever.
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Anna's Archive
Nothing legal about Anna's Archive content.
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True, but that's still not how it works since we have a multi-tiered justice system where corporations are basically able to get away with whatever.
fair enough
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if Facebook can torrent books and get away with it I should be able to too
OP is asking about seeding though, and wasn't the whole Facebook debacle that they never seeded so they got away with it or something? Because they never "distributed" anything?
