World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
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World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
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#2Actually torrents are pretty bad for storing "rare" files. Maybe someone should offer a fix.
Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
#3Actually torrents are pretty bad for storing "rare" files. Maybe someone should offer a fix.
The problem is not really torrents. The problem is that seeds are ephemeral. But an equally ephemeral source for any protocol will always make the availability of the resource low. The solution is not to change the protocol; the solution is to have less ephemeral sources.
Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
#4Actually torrents are pretty bad for storing "rare" files. Maybe someone should offer a fix.
The problem is not really torrents. The problem is that seeds are ephemeral. But an equally ephemeral source for any protocol will always make the availability of the resource low. The solution is not to change the protocol; the solution is to have less ephemeral sources.
Could this be a problem that a blockchain could help solve?
Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
#5This reminds me of that ASCII Star Wars telnet thing. How long has that been around for?
Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
#6Actually torrents are pretty bad for storing "rare" files. Maybe someone should offer a fix.
The problem is not really torrents. The problem is that seeds are ephemeral. But an equally ephemeral source for any protocol will always make the availability of the resource low. The solution is not to change the protocol; the solution is to have less ephemeral sources.
It would be interesting to see how a Usenet/Torrent adapter may work to at least supplement loss
Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
#7Actually torrents are pretty bad for storing "rare" files. Maybe someone should offer a fix.
I think this is mostly a consequence of how the clients work. When I download something with BitTorrent, it goes into a Downloads folder. Then I want to move and rename the files to fit into an organized collection, but then the client won't be able to find it anymore. If my client were able to track files across moves and renames, I'd be much more willing to seed things permanently.
(It would also need to have good upstream-bandwidth management, use a number of TCP connections that's less than O(n) in the number of torrents, and offer a few bulk operations like "stop seeding torrents with more than N seeds" and "resume seeding torrents with fewer than N seeds".)
Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
#8I'd be interested to learn about the software that created the ASCII version of the movie.
Is there a simple way to do this, or would they have made something custom?
Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
#9I'd be interested to learn about the software that created the ASCII version of the movie. Is there a simple way to do this, or would they have made something custom?
ffmpeg can output ascii videos
Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
#10Actually torrents are pretty bad for storing "rare" files. Maybe someone should offer a fix.
The problem is not really torrents. The problem is that seeds are ephemeral. But an equally ephemeral source for any protocol will always make the availability of the resource low. The solution is not to change the protocol; the solution is to have less ephemeral sources.
The Internet Archive might be a good host for rare (and not copyright infringing) torrents.