Hurricane Electric Offers Bit Torrent Service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday January 24, 2005 @02:00PM from the send-me-your-biggest-file dept.

heypete writes "Hurricane Electric is now offering BitTorrent tracker/seeder services on behalf of paying customers. One need only upload the file desired to a specified directory by FTP, and their system will automatically generate a torrent file, add it to a tracker for that customer, and act as a "seed" to ensure that the file is available to downloaders. This could prove to be extremely useful for distributors of large files (such as Linux distributions), as bandwidth for the tracker and seeding services does not count against the bandwidth quota for the account."

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great news except.. by ciroknight · 2005-01-24 14:03 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Some people aren't going to read the EULA, upload some W4R3Z, get arrested/fined/etc, then the Republicans will start shouting again about how P2P is inheiriently evil, and that will be the end of that.

worse case scenario yes, but still, you've gotta wonder about that.

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