THE PROBLEM

Marxist cocksuckers are turning our Internet into a dystopic shit-hole like something out of Black Mirror. To stop them we need an ***IMPLEMENTABLE*** action plan for the construction of an alternative Internet that is decentralized, anonymous and uncensorable. These traits need to be baked directly into its physical and digital infrastructure.

We already have all the software tools we could possibly need to begin building such a network. We’re not being held back for lack of suitable tools.

We already have all the content we will ever need for such a network: we can outright steal it from the regular Internet and from other sources. More on that in a second.

As for physical infrastructure, I’ll get to that too.

What we lack is people. People operate by inertia and will mostly do what they’ve always done. Since their friends are on Facebook, not Tor, not Retroshare, not some blockchain-powered social network, but Facebook, that’s where they’re going to continue to go.

We need to convince the masses to migrate to a more secure network. Where they go, everything else follows; the money, the infrastructure, the content creators, the developers, the online businesses, etc.

If you’re rolling your eyes at the thought of having to deal with normies, Zuckerburg certainly doesn’t have that problem. Let people like him shape the future of the Internet if you want to. Yes, we need the normies but we can still have our own separate enclaves on an alt Internet just like we do on this Internet. What’s good for the normies is good for us. A rising tide lifts all boats & all that.

THE SOLUTION

In order for normies to want to migrate to an alternative network you have to offer them something that they actually want which they couldn’t otherwise get. Or at least offer it at a cheaper price. This brings us to the various kinds of content that could be pirated over to an alternative network in order to attract a userbase. Namely:

PRINT MEDIA such as books, newspapers, magazines and comics can be digitized. You could sell people their favorite amazon books for crypto, at pennies on the dollar. Amazon deserves to get fucked over this way since they apparently have the luxury to ban books now. Your local library is another easy option. Or you could digitize textbooks for college students and sell it to them dirt cheap.

BROADCAST MEDIA like television and talk radio are another viable source of content. Pirate IPTV is already threatening to cut into the profits of cable & satellite providers, but it’s not very reliable yet. It often buffers or fails to load or gets throttled by the ISP. However you could still directly record television shows and make them available for download at a bargain price. Popular TV series are already being shared for free but there’s still lots of other content that’s being ignored: reality television, childrens cartoons, talk shows, soap operas, cooking channels, local news...this is all stuff that normies will pay a bargain for in order to ditch their cable.

DIGITAL MEDIA is basically everything that could concievably be copied or screen scraped directly from websites. This includes everything from videos, podcasts & image galleries to text content such as blogs, wikis and news sites. Since websites are already getting geographically restricted or else deleted from the Internet entirely, there’s plenty of reason to start screen scraping everything now while the Internet is still relatively open. The stuff behind pay-walls is also fair game, such as Netflix.

BIG DATA from services like Google Maps or Ancestry.com could be screen scraped, shared and used to build data mash-ups for all sorts of alternative darknet services. Even Google Street View could be ripped by incrementally crawling through the streets of major cities and screen-capping the images. Nothing is unrealistic with proper financial incentives. More on that in a bit, too.




I’m proposing the outright rejection of all copyright and the deliberate organized piracy of everything. The stakes are such that we can’t afford to straightjacket ourselves with legalities. We need content, to attract people, to attract content creators. This is the engine behind all other necessary activity for the health of a network.

It attracts online business. It attracts investment in infrastructure, such as mesh networks. It attracts developers who will create professional quality apps for a decentralized architecture. Success creates its own legitimacy and its own tailwind, pulling others along with it.

The alternative is a 1984-style Big Brother Internet where you are monitored, data-mined, “protected” from fake news, taxed for linking to other content, and other forms of cuckery.




THE ECONOMICS

FOR CONTENT CREATORS

First let’s address how content creators will be incentivized in a network founded on content piracy.

Sponsors. Popular youtubers have resorted to this option after the adpocalypse. Sponsors could include both mainstream businesses as well as ones that spring up on the darknet who exist entirely off the books.

Patrons. People can fund or commission original content from their favorite artists, song writers, video personalities, etc.

Earning crypto from upvotes. This is being pioneered by platforms like minds and steemit. Content creators can earn crypto whenever their content is upvoted or shared. This is a bit of a walled garden at the moment since you first have to sign up on these platforms. However steemit is developing “Smart Media Tokens” that will allow anyone to set up the same arrangement on their own personal website. This model could be adopted on any decentralized platform.

You can still profit from directly selling your content. Just because something can be pirated doesn’t mean it will be. Maybe you produce very niche content. Maybe there’s content you created a long time ago that isn’t being shared around anymore. Maintain a reliable archive of your past material and sell your customers the convenience of not having to hunt through a bunch of obscure filesharing communities to find it.
FOR PIRATES

Pirated content doesn’t necessarily mean free content. Since the entire means of bootstrapping this proposed network is mass piracy, there needs to be a business model to incentivize it. Free filesharing has its limits.

Pirates can profit from “their” content in many of the same ways as content creators. They could have anonymous patrons who get exclusive access to their more premium pirated content. They could earn crypto, or tokens that can be exchanged for crypto, from upvotes on a platform like steemit. And they could sell specifically requested content, such as digitizing books that haven’t yet been digitized.

Other content is unique to piracy itself such as Chanology’s leaked CoS documents or The Fappening.

FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS

tl;dr: If you want to offer a service or utility on the decentralized web, learn blockchain.

Search engines, file hosting, instant messengers, dating apps, language translation, ecommerce, payment processing and VPNs are just some of the online services & tools people use daily. An alternative Internet with a booming userbase will demand the same things, but a decentralized Internet demands decentralized solutions. Every link I’ve just listed points to an example of that service being implemented on a blockchain architecture.

Decentralized services like grid computing have existed for a while but they rely on people voluntarily contributing their computing resources. Blockchain technology offers monetary incentives for people to contribute processing power, storage and bandwidth to a network.
This is how services have to be implemented on a truly decentralized Internet, not only due to the practical limits of voluntarism but also so that they can’t be taken down by any centralized authority.

FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDERS

As with digital services, physical infrastructure too is being incentivized with cryptocurrency. Namely incentivized mesh networks; wireless networks of regular people who route each others Internet traffic through their personal devices. They are awarded crypto for sharing their bandwidth. These networks can function as a separate Internet all by themselves as well as connecting people to the regular Internet.

Some current examples: Althea, Mantle Networks (CJDNS), Stealth Grid, Ammbr, Rightmesh. These decentralized solutions will slowly become the Internet because they’re cheaper and they can bring service to areas that major ISPs won’t. Remote communities are already adopting these solutions.

However this manifesto is not about encouraging people to build mesh networks per say. Only a small number of people have the technical know-how and resources for something like that. This document focuses on what regular people can do to accellerate the widespread adoption of alternative networks before government regulation strangles them in their cradles. The idea is for decentralized architectures to become too heavily interwoven into the digital economy for governments to be able to shut them down.

GETTING THERE FROM HERE

Using pirated content to bootstrap a network is still a lot to unpack. Which network protocol or platform should we adopt first? What content should we start pirating first? Which people should we start inviting first, and who do I mean by “we”?
WHICH NETWORK?

Everything I’ve described can already be set up without building an alt Internet with its own separate infrastructure. It doesn’t even require decentralized platforms. It could exist as an informal network of individuals on the regular Internet, cobbled together from webmail accounts, image boards, torrents and filehosting services. VPN and encryption could provide all the anonymity & privacy necessary, at least in the beginning. It’s basically regular old file sharing expanded into a wider range of content, commercialized with cyptocurrency and having a strong emphasis on good opsec.

This is the easiest and best place to start from. All these blockchain powered platforms & incentivized mesh networks sound well and good but they still need time to mature. They’re difficult to set up and thus not normie freindly. But we don’t need to wait until they are. We can start building our own informal network right now and gradually incorporate these platforms at a manageable learning curve for a less technical userbase.

It will start as an informal network, adopt decentralized platforms, and finally migrate to mesh networks that are physically independent from the regular Internet. Along the way economic activity generated by content piracy will fuel the growth of a userbase for the decentralized web.

WHO DO I MEAN BY “WE”?

“We” refers to those making up the initial core of the network that I’m proposing. They are the founding members who do the initial work of getting things off the ground and attracting a larger userbase. They are the ones who work out the initial MO amongst themselves on how they’ll barter and buy content from each other. This document is an attempt to find them.

These are NOT people who just simply want a free & open Internet since that’s already implied. Plenty of non-profits and NGOs already fight for a free and open Internet.

We means people who, in addition to that, wish to buy, sell, barter and share pirated content amongst themselves. They want to make deals with each other in order to spend less on whatever media they consume. The people who wish to found such a network must be directly participating in that network. If they’re not even doing business with each other then why in the flying fuck would anyone else want to?

Whether you’re trading kindle books & scanned paperbacks with each other, purchasing pirated cable from one another, or peddling smut from your Pornhub Premium account (yeah sorry conservatives but this will definitely include porn), you have to be an active participant in what the network is for. Activity is oxygen for any community. Activity is what will attract more people. We means those who will first create the activity they wish to see, when there isn’t any, without waiting for someone else to do it first.

WHO WILL JOIN US FIRST?

BROKE FUCKS will show up looking for free shit, and that’s just fine. They’ll provide word-of-mouth advertising and bring in a larger userbase. Besides, you’ve got to get people hooked on whatever you’re pirating before they’ll pay for more exclusive content. Give away tons of free shit like any regular file-sharing community would, but with the option for people to buy your more “premium” content. Offer easy payment options too, like Minds Tokens, since people can earn those just by shit-posting.

GREEDY FUCKS like your Black Hat World types will join purely for business opportunities. We’ll need an effective reputation system to keep people honest and keep out scammers. BHW itself does a lot of due dilligence in prescreening those who advertise on their forums. Anyone with a BHW account would already have a history of user feedback that we could look at. As always, leverage social structures that already exist instead of re-inventing the wheel.

ANGRY FUCKS on the political right are being purged from the Internet. Not only popular right-wing figureheads but also regular people are getting banned from social platforms for expressing wrongthink. Being the free market types that many of them are, an uncensorable alt-Internet with an unregulated free market baked into its very means of propogation is just the thing they never knew they were looking for.

GLOW NIGGERS are always there, even when they’re not. Remember that this needs to be a trustless network with no single points of failure. Do all your business in cryptocurrency. Do all your communication with encryption. Keep your contacts & activity compartmentalized. Your timezone, the weather outside, what job you have, your family status, the fucking planet that you live on and the hole that you shit from are details that you keep to your fucking self.






WHAT CONTENT SHOULD WE PIRATE FIRST?

We begin with the low hanging fruit that most anyone can start pirating right now. From there we branch out into other areas as we scale up our network and refine our protocols.

FIRST LET'S TALK ABOUT PORN. Before I get into what kinds of content we should start pirating first, one type of content that definitely will be pirated is porn.

Since I’ll be posting this pdf on pol & other conservative-leaning places, and this will be an issue, we might as well deal with this first. An alt Internet is going to have porn on it just like the regular Internet does. And bears shit in the woods. Smut peddlers will form their own semi-segregated cliques within the informal network that I’m proposing, as will other groups who specialize in other particular kinds of content. You don’t have to rub shoulders with them, but they’re going to be there.

If you’re going to pirate porn you’ll want specific niche content that sits behind paywalls. Stuff that hasn’t already been passed around the Internet like a male dormitory trying to dispose of a dead hooker.

Maybe you’re not comfortable with directly signing up for a porn account under your own name. In that case I think you could pay someone on BHW, using bitcoin, to register an account for you and give you the password. I know they sell Youtube & Amazon accounts this way so I imagine they’d do the same thing for porn sites.

You can also buy hacked porn accounts on the darknet if you’re able to find a marketplace that hasn’t been taken down yet. I’ve perused a couple of these already. In their Digital Goods section you can purchase porn accounts that give you access to multiple different sites.

BOOKS ARE ANOTHER UNDER-PIRATED MEDIUM. Yes there are lots of pirated books, but these are mostly books that have been in print for a while or else geek-oriented stuff like computer programming.

Compare the amount of book piracy to, say, music. Music isn’t even worth the trouble of pirating any more. A Youtube search will yield any version of any song in whatever language it was sung in. There’s nowhere near this level of penetration in the book market. We could change that.

This could even evolve from simple piracy to incorporating other services into the mix, such as the blockchain-powered language translation service I mentioned earlier. Pirates could have translations made of popular books in order to expand their customer base. Or you could develop a browser plug-in that interfaces with a book pirating website on zeronet. The plug-in would display alternative black market price offerings for any book you’re looking at on amazon or indigo. Small innovations & partnerships like these are how the alt Internet will grow.

ALL TELEVISION AND MOVIES SHOULD BE PIRATED, not only because normies will buy it but also because legacy media is helping lead the charge for Internet censorship & deplatforming. They deserve to have their content pirated and their customers stolen. If they want to enrich themselves at the cost of your digital freedoms, you deserve to enrich yourself at the cost of their bottom line.

I’m not necessarily talking about streaming live television. I’m talking about recording stuff and making it available for download. And like I said earlier, I’m not just talking about popular TV series that are already pirated anyway, but all of daytime & night time television in all of its vapid glory.

CLONE WEBSITES AND MIRROR THEM ON DECENTRALIZED PLATFORMS. This can serve two purposes.

First we could clone websites that the Marxist Left is attempting to scrub from the Internet. Right leaning blogs and forums are being dropped by their hosting providers or else being starved of funds due to payment processors refusing to serve them.

The owners of these sites might not be willing to explore alternative hosting options, such as decentralized platforms, because of the learning curve and the sheer number of choices. We could simplify things for them. We could mirror a particular website on Zeronet, then contact the website owners & hand them the keys. What have they got to loose?

Secondly we could mirror legacy media websites like CNN. Why in the fuck would we want to do that? So we can take away their traffic, place our own ads on them, make their premium content available for free, bypass their geographical restrictions, keep up news stories that they’ve taken down for censorship purposes, and probably a few other good reasons that I haven’t thought of.

But ask yourself, do you think legacy media wants you to mirror their websites? I don’t, for the reasons I’ve just given. That’s why I think we should. Screenscrape every fucking thing you can from CNN and other fake news sites. Use VPNs to get around their geographical restrictions. Sign up for access to any premium content, download all if it and pirate the fuck out of it.

Granted, mirroring a website is more technical than just pirating content, but it’s an undertaking that newbies could take part in. The more technical people will set up and administer a cloned website while noobs scrape all the fresh content from the site that’s being mirrored.