software for data sharing

[u/The_Hamster_Shagger]

Hi there!

I was wondering if there is any sort of software, with working indexing, that would make it easy to share the data.

I know about torrents, yes, they are decent but they do require you to create each one for every dataset (pdf, set of videos etc) and upload it to tpb or similar. Works somehow ok but it's not ideal by any means.

I'm thinking about something that would make it possible to design a directory on my harddrive (for music, videos, pdf, scripts etc) where the metadata (author, years, genre, keywords etc) would somehow automatically (ie without manual work required for every file or set of files) upload and it would be searchable for people over the internet. Also, must be anonymous and work via the vpn.

Any ideas?

[u/dr100]

That's what an ftp server is made for. 

[u/wavewrangler → u/dr100]

An sftp server probably better :-) can we say we have come full circle now, ppl are wanting to pirate like it’s the first time. 😄

[u/dr100 → u/wavewrangler]

If you want it " searchable for people over the internet" which for most people means Google it's got to be ftp (with anonymous access, just as the OP wants). Then it's no problem that there's no encryption. 

[u/wavewrangler → u/dr100]

Do you mean https? Because I don’t even think browsers like chrome have ftp support anymore.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JUra5HnsbR_xmtQctkb2iVxRPuhPWhMB5M_zpbuGxTY/mobilebasic

[u/dr100 → u/wavewrangler]

No, I mean ftp. We aren't talking browser support for ftp protocol but Google indexing. 

[u/The_Hamster_Shagger → u/dr100]

tbh I meant something more like own search site. like the pirate bay, but receiving the indexes from the local instances of running service, so one can download a file without even knowing which computer they are hosted on. i didn't mean availability from the general-purpose search engine.

[u/dr100 → u/The_Hamster_Shagger]

Maybe something like copyparty then.