I publish all of my music in ways that are pirate-friendly, which for the moment just means Bit Torrent and IPFS.

See: https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/Cryptograss:Delivery-kid

If IPFS is starting to wane, does anyone else have a suggestion of a replacement about which I might start to educate my fans?

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haunter 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

See I thought if IPFS was picked up by the piracy scene (some bigger private trackers for example) then it probably would have been more successful. Alas I haven't seen it outside of libgen and even there I thought it was a backup option only.

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hiccuphippo 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I always thought it could be the evolution of Bittorrent: updatable torrents (with IPNS), peers sharing files from different "bundles" as long as the bits match.

The problem was that there was no good client for it that was better than current torrent clients. When I tested it you had to keep a duplicate of the files in the ipfs cache directory and the client was CLI based which would alienate most users. There's probably no way to have private trackers or to track seed/leech ratios for communities too.

	▲	fwip 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It was also pretty slow (download rate wise), even if the destination and source node had a good link between them. I think the protocol had a lot of back-and-forth chatter, requesting blocks a few a time.

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scirob 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

also still getting used in some libgen sci-hub mirrors

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TiredOfLife 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hyphanet (nee Freenet)