To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] .torrent and fproxy References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Edgar Friendly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 20 Jun 2003 11:31:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Zlatin Balevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Instead of competing, lets cooperate! ;-)) > > It is entirely possible to run a freesite with .torrent links. It is > slightly incovenient because you have to save the .torrent file and > manually start BitTorrent. Can we make a special rule for .torrent > files in fproxy that displays a big fat warning saying "You won't be > anonymous if you start downloading this torrent" and then stream the > .torrent file to the browser so that BitTorrent can pick it up from > there? > It's true that you can run a freesite that serves .torrent files, but there still has to be a tracker (metatracker?) run by someone (usually the person distributing the .torrent files) to keep track of who's available to download from. Since freenet can't perform this function, I don't see the benefit of hosting .torrent files on freenet vs. a regular web server. Thelema -- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raabu and Piisu GPG 1024D/36352AAB fpr:756D F615 B4F3 BFFC 02C7 84B7 D8D7 6ECE 3635 2AAB _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
