Need help spreading a technical video via Bittorrnet

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Published Friday, September 01, 2006 1:43 AM by RoyOsherove
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Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:06 PM by Ramon Smits (Exyll)

# re: Need help spreading a technical video via Bittorrnet

10k? You mean 10kB/s? Isn't that the point of bittorrent? When some people have some parts of your torrent you all supply parts in the cloud. This is what bittorrent is made for :).
Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:07 PM by Tzafrir

# re: Need help spreading a technical video via Bittorrnet

The torrent link is broken - literally. I'd be happy to help spread it, as I'd like to watch it myself :)
Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:07 PM by Nathan

# re: Need help spreading a technical video via Bittorrnet

Use a torrent client (such as Azureus) that supports super-seeding -- roughly, ensure you only send out a given piece of the file once to ensure a full copy is uploaded to the collective as soon as possible. If you're worried about the slow start, get your private seeders to just join the super-seeded torrent before announcing it.
Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:09 PM by Ben Scheirman

# re: Need help spreading a technical video via Bittorrnet

I'd be happy to seed. I'm curious why you'd send the file to a user with a faster connection first, rather than just share it with bit torrent. As soon as I get a few bits of the file, my bit torrent client will share those with others and you'll notice an immediate load-share. I'll seed as long as you like me to. email me at subdigital AT gmail DOT com
Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:35 PM by RoyOsherove

# re: Need help spreading a technical video via Bittorrnet

OK, I've fixed the broken link, and have sent the private link to a couple of people already.

You can start using bittorrent for the download though.

Be kind, keep seeding it after you've finished downloading :)

Friday, September 01, 2006 12:27 AM by Omer van Kloeten

# re: Need help spreading a technical video via Bittorrnet

I'm trying to help out, but I get 0 seeds and 0 peers in the swarm... Weird.

Friday, September 01, 2006 12:52 AM by RoyOsherove

# re: Need help spreading a technical video via Bittorrnet

utorrent is telling me that there are two seeds currently, so I'm not sure what the problem may be.

I hate doing things for the first time - I always feel like I'm so clunky with getting it right it's not even funny :)