However, when it comes to maintaining availability and ensuring the longevity of shared files, BitTorrent falls short.
And
Why I Would Never Seed a Torrent
I wonder if there's a correlation!
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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Wow, what a cunt.
Private trackers usually have very healthy torrents :)
I’m assuming you’ve never been a member of a private tracker then? They would boot you off in a heartbeat. And after this post, no one is going to want to send you an invite.
I seed 160 TB, but not over BitTorrent. I certainly don't need access to private trackers to find what I want, and I have even less interest in contributing to them since I think they are elitist. Information shouldn't be hidden behind an invitation. That's no better than a subscription or paywall in my book.
I agree information shouldn't be behind an invitation, but it does solve 3 important things:
- Keeps the law out of your hair
- Seed requirements ensure torrents stay alive
- Incentivizes strict quality control and uploading new content
I can't tell you the number of times I've downloaded something from a public source and it's been crap quality, or isn't even the thing I wanted to download. Sometimes the file is fine but it takes 3 weeks to download because it has one seeder with a 10kbps upload rate. That's a big "if" on if I can find it at all if it's something more obscure.
Until someone solves those 3 issues in another way, I don't see a better solution.
out of curiosity, which network do you use to seed?
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You can just use hardlinks
So who maintains these alternatives? A centralized server?
While I find it annoying that I can't rename files and think that could have easily been avoided in the original bittorrent design, it's not too inconvenient to just copy the files and leave the originals in a "seed" folder.
You can rename through the client but it would be nice if the clients could also use a hash, then when it detects a file is missing it could just scan the dir for a matching file automatically.
BitTorrent v1 does not hash the files, it hashes chunks (pieces), and they can span multiple files
What’s the best current eMule client? Can cosign dc++ and Soulseek/nicotine those are my main sources these days rarely torrent
I use mldonkey 3.1.7 for ed2k/kad and bittorrent, in the past I have used dc++ for a short time, but I prefer the idea of ed2k/kad.
You know that Bittorrent was invented to replace these, right?
Soulseek eMule and I think dc++ are younger than the BitTorrent protocol although not by much
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