The single file - sharing landscape is slowly adjusting in response to the continued get-up-and-go for more anti - piracy instrument , the last Pirate Bay finding of fact , and the raid and stoppage in the Megaupload pillow slip . face with doubt and drastic change at file - sharing sites , many users are searching for secure , individual and uncensored single file - divvy up node . Despite the image its name hint , RetroShare is one such futurity - proof client .
The avalanche of electronegative file - sharing news over the past weeks has n’t gone unnoticed to drug user and site operators .
From SOPA to Megaupload , there is a grow uncertainly about the future of communion .
While many BitTorrent site and cyberlockers preserve to lock as usual , there is a growing group of users who are expand their skyline to see what other mean of sharing are available if the worst slip scenario becomes reality .
Anonymous , decentralize and uncensored are the key and most sought - after features . For some this think sign up witha VPNto make their BitTorrent sharing more secret , but new clients are also bring forth interest .
Earlier this month we write aboutTribler , a decentralize ( not anonymous ) BitTorrent guest that makes soaker web site obsolete . We ’ve covered Tribler for more than half a decade , but it was only after our most late mail that it really take aim off with more than ahundred thousanddownloads in a few days .
But there are more Indian file - sharing tools that are specifically built to hold external attacks . Some even supply anonymity into the mix . RetroShare is such a private and uncensored single file - sharing client , and the developer have also acknowledge a significant boom in users recently .
TheRetroSharenetwork allows the great unwashed to make a private and encrypted file - sharing meshing . exploiter tot friends by substitute PGP certificates with people they believe . All the communicating is encrypted using OpenSSL and single file that are downloaded from stranger always go through a commit champion .
In other words , it ’s a true Darknet and virtually impossible to monitor by outsiders .
RetroShare founder DrBob told us that while the software program has been around since 2006 , all of a sudden there ’s been a surge in downloads . “ The interest in RetroShare has massively shot up over the last two months , ” he said .
“ In January our downloads tripled when sake in SOPA was at its peak . It more than reduplicate again in February , when cyberlockers disabled sharing or shut down entirely . At the moment we are get 10 prison term more downloads than in December 2011 . ”
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RetroShare ’s founder consider that there is an increase want for security , seclusion and exemption among file - sharers , features that are at the nub of his program .
“ RetroShare is about creating a private quad on the Internet . A societal collaboration meshing where you may share anything you need . A infinite that is free from the jimmy eyes of governments , corporation and advertiser . This is vitally important as our freedom on the Internet is under increasing scourge , ” DrBob separate TorrentFreak .
“ RetroShare is free from censorship : like Facebook cast out ‘ abhorrent ’ chest - feeding photographs . A internet that allows you to use any anonym , without insisting on knowing your real name . A web where you will not face the menace of jail , or being banned from entry into a state for an unacquainted tweet . ”
It ’s impossible to accurately foretell what file - sharing will look like 5 long time from now . But , a safe assumption is thatanonymitywill encounter a more central part than it ever has .
Recent crackdowns have made operators of central single file - sharing sites and services more cautious of right of first publication infringement . Some even went as far as keep out down voluntarily , like BTjunkie .
In the long run this might aim more casual downloaders to legitimate choice , if these are uncommitted . Those who keep on sharing could move to littler communities , darknets , and anonymous connections .
Republished with permit fromTorrentFreak . Image viaShutterstock / John David Bigi III
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