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Open Source Torrents

Oops, I mean the File Soup Forums.

• ISOHunt.com
• TorrentSpy.com
• TowerSeek.org
• Google filetype:torrent

For more information, and links to more sites (there are jillions), visit the File Soup Forums.

legal torrents sites http://www.filesoup.com/

Here are some I found: http://www.legaltorrents.com/ http://www.filesoup.com/ http://bt.etree.org/

There are also sites that list legal torrents, try File Soup or Legal Torrents for example. These are just two that I remember offhand, I'm sure there are many others as well. Remember, BitTorrent, like any other P2P application, has plenty of legitimate uses. Don't get sucked in by the *AA propaganda machine (not directed towards the parent, just saying that in general).

because the warez versions are hard to find

What, are you living under a rock?

• Mozilla FireBird 0.7 for Mac OS X
• Mozilla FireBird 0.7 for Linux i686
• Mozilla FireBird 0.7 for Win32

BTW, all torrent downloaders, be sure to keep open that window for a while after you're done. And if you're the first to download it, expect a slow speed at first because you've got only my ADSL line to get it from, speed will pick up as others join in.

(In case anyone wonders how I keep getting thru, ftp.mozilla.org is a hostname for several IP addresses, and one of them kind of works some of the time. GNU 'wget' with its retry feature does the rest.)

• Mozilla FireBird 0.7 for Mac OS X
• Mozilla FireBird 0.7 for Linux i686
• Mozilla FireBird 0.7 for Win32

BTW, all torrent downloaders, be sure to keep open that window for a while after you're done. And if you're the first to download it, expect a slow speed at first because you've got only my ADSL line to get it from, speed will pick up as others join in.

(In case anyone wonders how I keep getting thru, ftp.mozilla.org is a hostname for several IP addresses, and one of them kind of works some of the time. GNU 'wget' with its retry feature does the rest.)

• Mozilla FireBird 0.7 for Mac OS X
• Mozilla FireBird 0.7 for Linux i686
• Mozilla FireBird 0.7 for Win32

BTW, all torrent downloaders, be sure to keep open that window for a while after you're done. And if you're the first to download it, expect a slow speed at first because you've got only my ADSL line to get it from, speed will pick up as others join in.

(In case anyone wonders how I keep getting thru, ftp.mozilla.org is a hostname for several IP addresses, and one of them kind of works some of the time. GNU 'wget' with its retry feature does the rest.)

Anyway... here is the torrent for FireBird 0.7 for Mac OS X.

Oh, and all torrent downloaders, be sure to keep open that window for a while after you're done. And if you're the first to download it, expect a slow speed at first because you've got only my ADSL line to get it from, speed will pick up as others join in.

Third and last: just got through to the Win32 version, here is the torrent. Have fun. (get BitTorrent first if needed)

I just managed to get the Linux version as well, here is the torrent. Enjoy! (get BitTorrent first if needed)

Here ya go. If needed, get BitTorrent for Mac OS X first. Enjoy!

The tracker does indeed determine which sources to send out, but this model could be much improved. I believe that each client should advertise Country, ISP, and a user-configurable string.. and trackers should try to match up people who are close to one another, or people who specifically want to be matched up. This would help at places like universities.. I'm currently working on a client that will have this support (currently it's based on the experimental client, with the adition of a Win32 GUI and console mode Win32 status windows.. it's called burst!).

A tracker could theoretically handle a very large amount of people, as it's all based on stateless HTTP. It does not take a lot of traffic at all, and most communication is already gzipped.

Multiple trackers for the same file have been discussed, but the idea was shot down. It would be too difficult to properly synchronize between the two of them, to make sure both know of all peers.

No, the trackers a central point of failure. If they're down, the .torrent is useless. It has been discussed that putting in backup trackers (so make announce url a list instead of just a string), but Bram doesn't want to implement it because he wants to encourage fast, stable trackers.

A tracker is much like an index server, but it also knows about the status of the transer of each peer (they periodically "check in"), so it's more like a hive mind :)..