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Hurricane Electric Offers Bit Torrent Service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Legit by StevenHenderson · · Score: 3, Insightful
    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.

    You've got to love that everytime a new p2p program/service comes out, it is always explained as having legitimate uses.

    Everyone know that, sure, BT is great to share Linux distros, but in actuality, it will be used to share mp3s, divx rips, and pr0n.

    1. Re:Legit by ciroknight · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It would be a great way to distribute any commonly accessed data if set up properly, and with an ISP/Hosting provider with an assload of bandwitdh, BT could be set up as a kind of web-mirroring system, like Coral, only with BT as a back end.

      Such a system would be fast, and a huge advantage to consumers. Maybe google should check on it ;)

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  2. Re:What are they going to do by chris_mahan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Paying customers. So, name, address, phone number, credit card info. They would be stupid to upload illegal stuff.

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  3. No... by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 4, Insightful

    BitTorrent does very well for legitimate content, and so long as they kick out clients who set up torrents for illegal content, there won't be any cause for lawsuits.

  4. Re:What are they going to do by strider44 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    why would it be a trap? You do know that there are files other than warez and tv shows that you want to distribute using bit torrent don't you?

  5. Re:one solution by chill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    a) encrypt/password-protect it, then
    b) upload it

    If you limit sharing to your friends, you're completely safe.

    You better have a lot of "friends". The whole idea behind Bittorrent was the more people using it, the faster it is.

    If you're just going to share encrypted warez with a dozen people, there isn't any benefit to doing it via BT than via FTP.

    -Charles

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  6. Re:What should I do? by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know this probably isn't what you want to hear, but you should do nothing. Every major open source project already has a torrent, and having two separate torrents for a given file is worse than one.

    BitTorrent tracker hosting is not an exotic service, and the people who need it already have it. It's good for HE's customers that they're offering tracker hosting, but it's hardly a new thing.