Peertube

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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

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Can we seed peertube videos in standard torrent apps? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by downdaemon@lemmy.ml to c/peertube@lemmy.ml

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I know libtorrent added webtorrent support a while back, how does it work? I tried it in qBittorrent and Transmission, and it downloads from the webseed only

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[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

Yes! Click on the download button under the video, select your desired resolution, click advaced, and you will have the option to download a .torrent file.

You can also right click on the video player and use the option to copy the video magnet link, but for some reason, when I tried this in the past, I never got any peers.

[–] downdaemon@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

that's the issue, i can't tell if it's uploading to peertube users, the Blender short video thing I watched has 7 peers but Tranmission showed 0 other than the webseed, qbittorrent showed 3 seeds but didn't download from then

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I imagine the webseed would take priority in most BitTorrent implementations. I'll seed some videos, and update this comment in a few days with how much they've been uploaded, if any.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago

I think it's time I updated this. None of my Peertube torrents ever uploaded anything. @downdaemon@lemmy.ml

[–] Echedenyan@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Try sharing with WebTorrent.

[–] downdaemon@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

i know that works, but libtorrent, that most major apps use, is supposed to support it now too

[–] Echedenyan@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago

The case is: I read time ago that some torrent clients only whitelist certain other torrent clients in the network to exchange.

I didn't remember if I even read the reasons but could be that libtorrent is not inside that and WebTorrent is one of the allowed instead.

[–] Amicchan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Could copyright sharks watch those repositories and issue copyright FUD?

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sure, but the vast majority of Peertube videos are under open licenses like Creative Commons, and I'm pretty sure you need to agree to having your video be torrented in the Peertube TOS when you upload. Basically, most videos made for Peertube is specifically meant by the creator to be shared in this way.

Of course, this wouldn't apply to if someone uploaded a pirated movie or show, but seeing how regular torrents for those are everywhere, I doubt they're having much luck taking them down. Think at best they'd be able to DMCA the home Peertube instance and get the main copy and listing taken down.