Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: [powderworks] The Break torrent pulled
From: Chris
Date: 23/02/2010, 8:50 am
To: Powderworks <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>, The Oilman <TheOilman@new.rr.com>

That's actually kind of the point - all the required information is encoded in that text, it's not actually a link.

If you're seeing it as a link, but it doesn't work, you're not using a Torrent client which understands Magnet Links. If you're not seeing it as a link, but you think you have a compatible client, trying copying and pasting into the address bar of your browser.

- Chris

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:28 AM, The Oilman <TheOilman@new.rr.com> wrote:
Chris, is that acutally a link? It doesn't work, but it doesn't seem to be a proper location/url
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [powderworks] The Break torrent pulled

There is such a thing as a trackerless torrent - using Distributed Hash Tables, Peer Exchange (PEX) and Magnet Links, you can run a torrent without uploading anything to a tracker.

This will work with basically all the major torrent clients (uTorrent, rTorrent, Transmission, kTorrent, BitComet and Deluge all work) with the possible exception of Vuze/Azurius, who have a slightly different implementation - I think they were working on adding compatibility, but I'm not sure. (easy solution: Just use uTorrent, it's better and a tiny download anyhow)

I've converted the torrent to a trackerless version - just click this link and it'll be picked up if you have a compatible torrent client.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5Y3ZO4CBBUNA5CDGSJDJKIAF37O37WW3

- Chris


On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:52 AM, The Oilman <TheOilman@new.rr.com> wrote:
 



Rob, this is a good question. If a torrent file was to be posted somewhere, like the mp3s were, could we connect to it and run it with all out clients doing the torrent things or is a central system required to control the interaction??
 
This way we could just post a torrent link somewhere for just 'workers and the rest of us can start out torrent clients and share it.
 
Todd
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: RM
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [powderworks] The Break torrent pulled

 

Thanks Fabien, I can't see any problem with that ... it's hosted privately, and it's just advertised inside Powderworks.  That looks like "inside PW" to me.
The Good Old Boys will let us know if it's otherwise, but I can't see it being so.

(Versus FTP) Can't torrents (both the media file and the .torrent file) be hosted privately as well without a problem?  I see torrents as the apex technology for altruistic dispersal of large files, since the root idea with torrents is about spreading the bandwidth load so that the original distributor of the files doesn't pay a heavy toll in upload costs.  I don't see any philosophical problem with "torrents" as a transport mode ... however, even though Dime is very well behaved as a torrent community and host, it is not "private", being public and searchable.

Rob M


On 22/02/2010 11:40 PM, fabien barret wrote:


Salut !

I put the MP3s here :




So anyone on the list can take it and it's private. If there is a problem with that i will delete it. It's just for fans !


Fab





--- On Mon, 22/2/10, Chris <seeker42@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Chris <seeker42@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [powderworks] The Break torrent pulled
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
Received: Monday, 22 February, 2010, 7:15 AM

 

I'm in the process of sorting out FTP distribution with Oilman. This way we can keep things private, as the Office request.

- Chris

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:24 PM, oils_seeker <seeker42@gmail. com> wrote:
 

Hi,

In line with the request from The Office, I've sent a deletion request for my torrent. It'll go down sometime in the next few hours.

Since the MP3 links are confined to PW members, I'll leave those up for now. Please keep them to yourself.

- Chris