The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch (positiveblue.substack.com)

>SeedBox Lite is an open-source project provided for educational and personal use only. We do not endorse, promote, or facilitate copyright infringement, illegal streaming, or piracy in any form. This software is designed to be used with legal content only.

I always find legal disclaimers like this funny. It's like kindergarteners giving each other cootie shots. Just some magic words said out of some combination of tradition and hope that they might have some actual protective qualities. "Who cares if the words are objectively untrue? We have plausible deniability now that we said them!"

ddtaylor · 15m ago

This is awesome for some use cases, but the problem with having it replace my Jellyfin + qbittorrent + vpn setup is that Jellyfin is available on many smart TVs such as Roku or LG.

progbits · 1h ago

Aren't these torrent clients bad for the swarm? Requesting chunks in sequence and probably not sticking around to seed. Do they at least seed while watching?

diggan · 1h ago

> Do they at least seed while watching?

Considering there is a file called "verify-no-uploads.js" ((https://github.com/hotheadhacker/seedbox-lite/blob/6a89d1974...)) in the repository, which contains "This script monitors network activity to ensure zero uploads", it seems to me like they're actively trying to just be leechers.

zolland · 4m ago

Using "Seedbox" in the name is very misleading then... I would have been excited to see a Stremio style alternative that actually downloads and seeds content for an extended period of time.

Seattle3503 · 44m ago

Sometimes I think private trackers are too uptight about ratios and hit-and-run rules, then I see something like this.

toomuchtodo · 12m ago

If you're not uploading, you're not infringing/pirating (in some jurisdictions).

owjofwjeofm · 1h ago

Isn’t piracy itself a form of leeching

lawlessone · 1h ago

>Isn’t piracy itself a form of leeching

Actually i'm just collecting data to train an AI

MurkyLabs · 58m ago

well officers I see nothing illegal being done here, case closed

gaowanliang · 17m ago

Over a decade ago, there was a software in China called "Kuaibo(快播, meaning 'Fast Playback')", which offered a similar service. But different from it, Kuaibo had its own server, which allowed users to stream torrent videos very quickly. Eventually, the company was shut down due to copyright and porn issues.

u8080 · 56m ago

Leech client, add to blacklists.

password4321 · 36m ago

Should be called "not-a-seedbox"

xaindume · 34m ago

Or "leechbox"

IceWreck · 1h ago

Does it download torrents on your server or web torrent on your browser? - the readme really doesn't say.

Imo downloading on the server is more useful. Web torrent is great but I don't think it's very practical in many places.

koakuma-chan · 1h ago

Why does this need a server? Isn't the point to be able to add a torrent and start watching immediately?

immibis · 30m ago

Browsers can't make torrent connections, or any others for that matter. Except for HTTP and WebRTC.

WebTorrent is a hack to run torrent protocol over WebRTC, but obviously it only connects to other WebTorrent programs and not to normal torrent programs. I think PeerTube uses it.

koakuma-chan · 27m ago

It could be a desktop app :shrug:

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