‘Play’ Is World’s First Torrent Website On ZeroNet That’s Impossible To Shutdown







Short Bytes: A new movie hosting website Play has popped up on ZeroNet, a network which utilizes crowd-sourcing in order to host websites in a Peer-to-Peer style instead of using a central server. This helps in reduced operation costs and increased bandwidth.


W
e have seen The Pirate Bay and how it became world’s biggest P2P file sharing website. At one time, it was responsible for generating almost 50% of the world’s internet traffic through the Bittorrent network. But we also witnessed the dark destiny of its founders who had to face numerous lawsuits filed by production houses in order to defend their pirate user base.A new platform has emerged on the internet which poses itself as a serious threat to the intentions of copyright holders. Well, it is not intended for being so. Known as ZeroNet, it is kind of a server-less human-powered network which uses a technology that is an amalgamation of the Bitcoin cryptography and Bittorrent network. We have also talked about the technical details of ZeroNet in the past.
What is ZeroNet?

So, What’s the real deal? ZeroNet works in a similar way just like you share torrent files on the BitTorrent P2P network. The difference is that here a website is shared instead of pirated movies and tv shows. A website uploaded on ZeroNet isn’t hosted on a central server but by the users who access it, just like the torrent network in which the data is pulled from the machines which are downloading the torrent. A new user who wants to access the website gets the relevant files from existing users.
So, if you’re accessing a website on ZeroNet, you’re simultaneously hosting the website on your machine. That’s kind of a crash-proof solution and could safeguard the existence of the website in case some legal authority wants to take it down. For using ZeroNet, you’ll have to download its bundle which will authorize your machine to connect to the network. Once connected, you’ll be able to upload your own website or open an existing one by typing the ZeroNet URL in your web browser. You can know more about how it works by clickinghere.

Source: fossbytes.com