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Originally Posted by acidzebra
"Darknet" is a popular term on this board I've noticed, but I don't quite follow the way it is used here. If I had to define the term, I would go for something like a private virtual network where users connect only to people they trust - a private net within the net. While most people here seem to refer to open p2p like bittorrent, or news downloads from alt.binaries.ebooks and the like.
So what is it, regular p2p or private dark and shady VPN where mass illicit trading in ebooks is going on? And if it is the second, why hasn't anyone told me?  |
I think in general use "a darknet" is as you describe -- a private network of trusted users. Here "the darknet" seems to be generally used to refer to the set of publicly-accessible but copyright-violating material, most of which is not indexed by general Web search engines. Maybe "dimnet" would be a better term for the latter
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