I would like I2P to be implemented as a default by pirates, but it looks like people (including myself) are lazy
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Yeah, I just can't be bothered to switch when torrenting works fine as is.
And in almost all cases is faster.
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.
I think your response answers the question.
If configured correctly. Can be fast. IMO, once those statements are less conditional and prone to error, we might see the pro of privacy carry more weight.
People don't understand sometimes how much of a tech-ethusiast bubble we got going on here
How so. Only idea what I can get is reduce number of hops.
Of course. Your idea is THE idea. You CANNOT get mass adoption without a minimal amount of hops. You won't get the hordes of pirates running around reading wikis on how to configure their router for piracy and how to get an i2p provider and how to get an index etc.
Torrenting right now is so broadly adopted because you just download a Torrenting client, click the magnet, click OK and you're good to go.
If you HAD to set up port forwarding, some magnet handling register in windows preferences, just those two would stop the bulk majority of pirates. And that's not even 1/4 of what you have to do to use i2p correctly.
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 for libtorrent
to iron out bugs and stablize and it takes more for clients to upgrade their embedded libtorrent
to v2.x.
Why is it in Java??
3 billion devices run Java.