Re: How much latency do you add to torrents?

On Sun, 8 Dec 2024, jetjock wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 17:38:05 -0700, Oliver <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 21:51:47 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote
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>>>>> Saving magnet links takes me under a second. Too quick to notice.
>>
>> That's not what I had meant by latency.
>> Copying & pasting a magnet link takes milliseconds at most.
>> Then you wait.
>> And you wait.
>> And you wait some more.
>>
>> That's called "latency".
>>
>> You add random latency to the time BETWEEN when you grabbed the magnet.
>> And the time you employed that magnet link inside a bit torrent client.
>>
>> Of course, you change your IP address between those two times also.
>> But if there's is a short latency, they can easily figure which was you.
>>
>> You don't want them to figure out that it was the same person who grabbed
>> the magnet who then immediately started torrenting the media.
>>
>> Latency puts distance (in time) between those two "related" events.
>> It's the whole point of latency in the first place.
>>
>>>>> In terms of torrents, what are some good torrent sites that are still
>>>>> working?
>>
>> https://thepiratebay.org has been working for me for twenty years or so.
>> https://libgen.rs/ has been working for books and epubs for a while too.
>
> https://libgen.rs/  returns a "server not found" error.

I think it is just some temporary problem. I've used it successfully in 
the past. My three go tos for books are annas archive, libgen and z-lib.

> I've been using https://ebook-hunter.org/ and
> https://www.ebookhunter.net/ for ebooks.
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