Tor seems fast now but in my day and age, it was an hour to see the wikipedia main. (Or at least felt like it)

This is the way. Remember the great work all the Nobel Laureates did. Before they started rambling that Magikarp is an endangered species.

tear down every paywall

Would you need a VPN for that? Cause if the MPAA lawyers have to throw money at programmers to make an example, then they will.

If you do need a VPN, then i2P would be a better choice, though it suffers from network size/speed.

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Per https://lemmy.ca/u/mp3 https://lemmy.ca/comment/2015681

File discoverability is poor, most people will not know how to act as a node and mirror files, and there’s no builtin privacy protection in place and it’s quite easy to figure out which IP addresses are hosting something.