I do use BitTorrent, but it’s never going to beat the convenience of just searching for a file and getting it when p2p networks first came out.

For niche stuff like 1930s movies sometimes I need to start a few torrents to make sure at least one of them has seeds.

I have had success with soulseek for music, but what do you guys use for other types of files?

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P2P is great because when I’m using qBittorrent I can see all the suckers who are still using utorrent lol

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On my Windows PC, I still use utorrent 2.2.1

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Stop it

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soulseek, fopnu, emule, dc++. For old/rare content, emule is the best.

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Wow, I haven’t used the old school P2P programs in over a decade. I honestly didn’t think they existed anymore for some reason.

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They’re going hard still

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Which client would one use for Emule nowadays?

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Any specific server you recommend? And is there anything on windows like mldonkey where you can search call the servers at once?

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Yeah, seriously, the most updated one for Linux had the last release a few years ago.

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Synology’s Download Station introduced me to emule. I don’t think there’s a more polished client for it than DS.

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Just on your niche stuff like 1930s movies, have you checked Internet Archive? I’ve been surprised at some of the stuff I’ve found.

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Yeah sometimes I’ll look everywhere else and it’ll be there. Has to be mostly pretty old stuff though.

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ive been experimenting with I2P with tracker2.postman.i2p

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Is i2p just a privacy guard to torrent over? Or does it actually help one find content as well?

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its an anonymizing tool like tor, but i2p supports bittorrent while tor does not. theirs also .i2p site like tor .onion sites. also i2p is peer to peer while tor is volunteer run with the tor project managing the network.

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BitTorrent is alive and well lol, and some of the top tier private sites opened their doors this past year which has been a nice change.

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Still open? Links?

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