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Decentralization has always been the way for piracy, since many places inevitably go down throughout the years but it being spread out is what keeps everything from being taken down by a single closure. So while not convenient it makes it more resilient.
i do not think a centralized effort would work for pirated content. look at all the websites that have gone down over the years.
My friend, you're on the fediverse and saying that a single website would be the best way to achieve this. I think that decentralization such as federation or peer-to-peer would be a much better way to achieve a pirate's utopia, because the decentralized approach guarantees that even if one part falls, the whole will remain.
That aside, if I can talk about "What other features would make the ideal file sharing site?" — for a pirate video streaming site in particular, my number one feature would easily be community-contributed subtitles. In the list of subtitle tracks, each track would have two checkboxes, one for text and the other for TTS (this would be used for audio description and makeshift voice-over dubs). For rarer languages without reliable TTS, users would be encouraged to submit voice recordings, which might be anonymized with AI to sound like the TTS voice.
Subtitling would be done with a danmaku-esque system, so that people can choose to contribute just a few pieces here and there and wait for other contributors or continue later, rather than just one person needing to subtitle everything. Users might be able to rate subtitle tracks based on quality and completeness, too. A system of upvotes and downvotes on individual subtitles, as well as both manual and automated moderation, would prevent abuse.
THIS is a good suggestion; I'm not aware of any decentralized search that also specifically helps find subtitles.
Apps being able to search opensubtitles.org\com via the API, are a great convenience, but I'm not aware of any comparably convenient way to submit subtitles. Currently, it's a bit of a pain, just to try & help. (For instance, .srt files with perfectly standard formatting, rejected for no discernable reason whatsover, requiring upload in .ass format instead.)
It would get shutdown by multiple governments pretty quick probably
This is a terrible idea. There's plenty of resources out there that has links to everything you could ever want, why would it all need to be stored in one place. The piracy megathread has resources for everything you mentioned, with redundancies and multiple sources. It's really not that hard to find anything you need. If I want a book I go to a certain site, if I want software or games I have 2 or 3 torrent sites, if I want to stream TV or movies I have dedicated sites for that. What good does putting it all in one spot do except make that a bigger target?
No. There have been many attempts at this, and just as many failures. Centralization is not the answer.
Zlibrary nowadays also have to open different Z point for their services so I don't think centralized is the way to go. Especially, it's easier for the government to track everything with modern technology.
You can kind of get that with qbitorrent and it's search engine.
Theres a lot of discussion here against centralization, but i wonder how possible it would be to maintain a federated infraestructure and build on top a mega meta search engine for centralization of resources
Search engine functionality goes in the sharing\communication app.
DHTs in the '90s already had search & tagging & even some rudimentary social networking, built in.
Networks like Tribler's don't really need a lot more features, so much as just raw usage; most people torrenting are still using the mainline DHT, which doesn't have a search layer.
That's largely on those users. Advanced DHT search with rich social features, already exists for those who decide to use it.
That would be amazing and even building a streaming app in too of it to compete with strraming services. Something similar to stremio for films and a music streaming service
Which describes torrent apps 15 years ago. I'm really not sure what people think is missing?
