Distributing Files Anonymously.

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  1. AlexRMC92

    AlexRMC92 Site Supporter 2013

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    This topic may not be suitable for these forums, but i am not fully sure. I'm going to leave out a lot of information. If it is not appropriate, then by all means remove or lock it.

    I have a large collection of updates and other patches for a set of hardware built by company A. Over time, company A finds themselves in financial trouble and company B acquires them. Company A had all of these files available for public download, but company B decides to restrict those files. The essentially makes all hardware built by company A useless as it can not be updated or patched, forcing one to buy hardware from company B even though it is nearly identical.

    Any large public distribution of these files have been shut down by company B. So if you were in a position where you had every file from company A from 1992 to the date of the acquisition and restriction of files what would you do? To keep them secret would protect you and allow you to buy company A's hardware very cheaply as nearly no one else can use it. Or do you find a way to distribute it anonymously over something like I2P and hope that someone else shares it more publicly via torrent or some other method.
     
  2. LeHaM

    LeHaM Site Soldier

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    what is the hardware we are talking bout here?
     
  3. Teancum

    Teancum Intrepid Member

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    If you want to protect your identity I would start with Tor. Then it's just a matter of which service you think can keep them up the longest. A torrent might work (Do the initial seeding through tor and then let it go free) or upload them to a service like Mega or mediafire.

    That's my two cents.
     
  4. smf

    smf mamedev

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    If it's something that archive.org might be interested in then you could contact them.
     
  5. Bad_Ad84

    Bad_Ad84 The Tick

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    Sounds like sun and oracle and solaris updates.
     
  6. AlexRMC92

    AlexRMC92 Site Supporter 2013

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    Yes, pretty much every OS update and firmware release up until oracle took over.
     
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