The Bittorrent crash of 2004

[Josh]

Torrent, please? LAFF

This gets me thinking... why can't we all just host a few torrents of our favourite songs and whatnot. Make a playlist, or a mix CD and swap em back and forth between each other.

Lotta diversity in this group that comes here... we could all get exposed to a lot of cool new music. Anyone in?

http://bi-torrent.com/

You win.

[stormy]

I get my music primarly from http://www.indietorrents.com/ They have all kinds of obscure and cool stuff, all of which is RIAA safe. Just have to get and keep a decent ratio.

no signups at this time

[Dipstick]

A couple of things I never quite understood about BT sites/trackers:

-That quite a few of them are semi-private (mainly by closed membership). Apparently this is standard operating procedures with Asian BT sites, and this really is an issue of bandwidth. I would figure that any BT site that draws enough traffic could make money with the right ad deals and donation schemes, but what do I know.

-There is always a demand for users to keep a ratio of one or better... too bad that is something everyone will never achieve. There is a 1:1 correspondence between uploaded and downloaded bits in a Bittorrent swarm. For every user that has a ratio +N bytes above 1, there is a set of users who equal the difference -N.

Bittorrent != Napster -- Napster was a centralized service, BT is a concept that can be used in a myarid of ways. If someone gets the BT techolongy outlawed, they may as well outlaw the Internet (since you can use every Internet service, from webpages to FTP to Usenet to e-mail for illegal acts).

-Dippy

[cka]

suprnova nooooooooooooooo

where am I gonna download torrents with hundreds of seeds and never topping 10k/s down now?!?!?!?!?

my real reply:

It doesn't really bother me that public torrent sites are shutting down left and right. I mean, it was bound to happen eventually. But for those of you who think the bittorrent "protocol" will be outlawed - you're seriously nuts. The government simply can't "outlaw" a protocol. ISPs may packet shape data coming down those specific ports, which would basically kill your ability to use BT, but there's no way they can simply do away with the software.

[maruchan]

This gets me thinking... why can't we all just host a few torrents of our favourite songs and whatnot. Make a playlist, or a mix CD and swap em back and forth between each other.

WE would need someone to host, a tracker to upload torrents, and such..

[Josh]

-There is always a demand for users to keep a ratio of one or better... too bad that is something everyone will never achieve. There is a 1:1 correspondence between uploaded and downloaded bits in a Bittorrent swarm. For every user that has a ratio +N bytes above 1, there is a set of users who equal the difference -N.

Wrong. The reason the ratio is so hard to keep is because YOU SHOULD BE RIPPING MEDIA AND UPLOADING IT.

Rip a movie or two from Blockbuster, upload that shit and your ratio will go through the roof.

Get it? Its designed to keep you as an active participant in the leet pir8 community.

WE would need someone to host, a tracker to upload torrents, and such..

Bit comet does all this for you. Also there is teh private torrent network between a few users here, but the person who set it up should be the one to talk about it.

[Mman]

For those who want in on Indietorrents, I have 6 invites. DONT SEND ME ANY PMS NOW THOUGH. I have to first figure out how to do them. They just implemented that at this site.

[Josh]

You know I want in.

[stormy]

me too

[Rumpy]

Bittorrent != Napster -- Napster was a centralized service, BT is a concept that can be used in a myarid of ways. If someone gets the BT techolongy outlawed, they may as well outlaw the Internet (since you can use every Internet service, from webpages to FTP to Usenet to e-mail for illegal acts).

I was using that analogy in terms of use and how when the tech got too popular, it gathered unwanted attention to it.