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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Re:Now only if they'll kick off their spammers... by jrockway · 2005-01-24 14:32 · Score: 0, Troll

So their policy is to provide bandwidth to people who pay for it. When you start restricting who can and can't host a website, you start crossing the line from ISP to police state :)

Bravo for having some balls, HE.

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