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For a while I've wanted a bittorrent client that was completely invisable to the user.

• ...as a small torrent client exe-file that is piggy-backed with the actual torrent file and started if the user has no client. Downhill battle's Blog Torrent has such an exemple, called "Easy Download". People just click on the link and the necessary client is automagically installed.
• ...as a on-the-fly P2P-izer, that just works by pre-pending a prefix to the address (just like the Coral cache). Differ is such a system. People put dijjer.org/get/ to the beginning of links. The website will automatically send an installer if needed. This installers set ups some sort of proxy on the users computer. dijjer.org/get URLs are redirected to this local proxy and the proxy it self is in chagre of geting the file and transparently make it available in HTTP as if downloaded by conventionnal means. The good thing is, once the proxy is installed it works with anything, browser, but also media players with HTTP web-streaming.
• ...last but not least, there are browser plugins. Opera, as far as I've heard comes with one, and I'm sure one can find something on http://addons.mozilla.org/

You mean something like this

BitTorrent supports webseeding. You only need a script file on your server (such as PHP). No need to build a whole module into your web server.

Check out http://www.blogtorrent.com/ and "torrent webseeding" on Google.

People without resources to host their own tracker can and should use one of the many free, public trackers.

See the BlogTorrent project, from which there is already a bunch of trackers.

The server is based on BlogTorrent not BattleTorrent.

It's been a coincidence that this came out today. I too have been needing a solution recently for hosting a new food network.

Hopefully since archive.org works out for you, Radix, I have the same luck. We'll see. I started experimenting with torrents too.

I found it a little tough for a newbie to start using torrents. I found and am using Blog Torrent. That's been a neat tool to get into torrents and trackers with the least effort possible.

thats the general princaple behind blog torrent, atleast thats what the developer explained to me when he was starting. ideally it could be coded into a plug in for firefox in addition to the specialized self extracting exe they use now. http://www.blogtorrent.com/ is the site, its an offshoot of http://downhillbattle.org/.

hopefully someone will set up a torrent (I would, but I don't have a place to post it)

Why not use blogtorrent?

"Once you have Bittorrent installed, using it to download files is really simple. But--and this is going to sound crazy to all you programmers out there--there are tons of people who just never make it over this hurdle. So, what blogtorrent does is give users "easy download" links in addition to links to the torrent files. The "easy download" link gives them the torrent file they want wrapped in an executable installer. The installer just installs Bittorrent, asks them where to save the file, and starts getting the torrent they want. "

By using Blog Torrent! Sets up a simple tracker, allows even the most novice to seed files, and bundles the bittorrent client with the torrent file in one single download. They have versions for mac and windows, and allow for the download of just the .torrent file for Linux users.

You know, BitTorrent isn't all that bad when used with extensions like BlogTorrent. For instance, a couple of days ago I used BlogTorrent to host a compilation of Tsunami footage and media on my blog. All of the usual mirrors wilted under the load but my torrent just kept humming along.

I put a big fat link up that says "Don't have BitTorrent? Click HERE" That's about as simple as it gets. In two days my humble blog has distributed upwards of 3 Terabytes of data. Most of it from first time BitTorrent users. Having a distributed tracker is really only important if you're trading illegal files unless of course you have a flakey tracker. Maybe we just need legitimate sources of content before BitTorrent rears its head.