I found I2P much better than Tor network, and now it supports BitTorrent protocol too https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/bittorrent .
Why haven’t the pirates migrated to I2P? Why are we still using clearnet and making people backout of seeding cause of DMCA?
The main reason is that
libtorrent
, which is the literal backbone of most torrenting clients, has implemented supported for I2P only recently in its latest v2.x branch… It takes time forlibtorrent
to iron out bugs and stablize and it takes more for clients to upgrade their embeddedlibtorrent
to v2.x.Probably mostly cause:
- Slow speed unless you you keep your router 24/7
- People are used to download torrents fast
- Clearnet has much bigger torrent database
- if you configure your node correctly, you won’t see much difference in bandwidth.
- i2psnark can be fast.
- but clearnet comes with an issue of tracking.
Why is it in Java??
3 billion devices run Java.
There is a more performant C++ implementation but it’s been a long while since I’ve used either it or the java implementation. Worth checking out.
real answer? im way too stupid to figure out how the hell to use it. i spent 3 straight days trying to get it working a couple years ago with no luck.
I was in the same circumstances when I started. But then I asked around which helped me properly configure it.
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