Utah book banners now want to make Little Free Libraries susceptible to criminal charges
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JFC, how evil can these people be.
There is no evil under the Sun that has not been committed by man.
As a species we are 100,000 years old but we are only just barely out of the dark ages.
firstly, 300,000 years
secondly, just because someone has struck the flint does not mean the kindling has caught. Do not mistake intelligence for wisdom.
Is there a banned book torrent that folks can seed?
I imagine it would be possible to set up like a kiwix server with text and PDF files of these books downloaded from Gutenberg, using only of course public domain copies, and then set up a QR code that would allow someone passing by to pair with your kiwix server, download those books and then have their own copy of them.
Books are small files which aren’t big enough for torrents to be useful. Go ahead and look on z-lib, which has whatever book you could possibly want available for direct download
I was thinking of a large curated torrent, every time the a book gets banned it gets added to the torrent, one stop shop to fight modern book burning
Torrents can’t be modified once they are made. Making 1 torrent and adding things to it wouldn’t be possible to do
BitTorrent v2 supports modifying torrents as well as deduping matching files from multiple sources (great for varying collections of books)
https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/
I guess we can just do rolling releases
P2p protocols like BitTorrent are useful because they are decentralized and very very hard to control by authority.
Shutting down one or a cluster of servers owned by one person is easier than chasing after 10,000 people in 100 different countries.
Honestly I'd be surprised if they could pull that off, they can't technically control it unless it's on their property, so any on private property should be protected by 1A. But if anyone can pull it off, it's
MoronsMormons in Utah, so there's that..Utah can violate the 1st amendment yet the 2nd amendment is protected. What a bunch of nazis.
Maybe little Timmy doesn't get enough ... Das Kapital
That’s sliding pretty close to Fahrenheit 451 or 1984!