On Monday, November 25, 2013 06:22:45 PM dg wrote: > Hi, all, > > What gives? A sad day it is for me to realize, after listening to the > last HPR community news (where it was said "a few people slurped the > whole feed,") that I can't find a legal torrent for hpr? I thought > surly archive.org would be torrenting our files, but they appear to not > be doing this. > > So I actually have 73 Gig on my zfs array available, but my collection > is a hodge-podge mix of mp3 and ogg. I thought of doing it on my own > totally and claiming to be some kind of torrent hero, but I thought > better that I might first check to see if anybody made any attempts > along these lines and that my info was correct before proceeding. It > would also be nice to know if anybody has a legal private tracker > before trying to duplicate effort. > > I'm thinking that if even a third of this list can seed just when they > are home at their computer, we can have a pretty good torrent going > into the future, relieving bandwidth on the main server and possibly > averting web bottlenecks and unnecessary bandwidth issues. > > I'm wondering whether or not to start with the first one thousand eps > of the speex or ogg format. I guess the mp3 might be more poplar (and > might cut bandwidth needs better, as those files are the largest) but I > come here to brainstorm before doing anything. > > Ken, is it possible that I could get a password into the main servers > ftp to do one big efficient slurp sometime in the future? Or do you > have any sneaky tar files anywhere? > > yours, > --- > DG > > _______________________________________________ > Hpr mailing list > [email protected] > http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
It seems like this project has been abandoned. The tracker on info- underground is no longer active. For those of you that prefer torrents for you downloading pleasure, I am considering adding a known good tracker for these and also splitting the torrents into years instead of one torrent containing everything. Comments? Bert Yerke
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