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BitTorrent for Content Providers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-it's-per-se-bad-don't-you-realize dept.

snuvlorgin writes "ibiblio.org has entered the fray, launching an enhanced BitTorrent site. Among the torrent offerings (all legal) are Linux kernels, distros, Project Gutenberg texts, and the ibiblio Speaker Series, which includes videos of talks by Larry Lessig, Robin Miller, and Dan Gillmor. ibiblio developed and open sourced the Osprey and Permaseed software to make BitTorrent seeding reliable, persistent, and suitable for large-scale content providers. Yes, you can find these torrents later."

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  1. Re:More widespread support by ClamChwdrMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're lucky they only block by port. My school (CA State Polytechnic Univ Pomona) blocks by packet content, so I can't just change the port.

    On the humorus (and annoying) side however, some part of the network infrastructure related to the scanning crashed a LOT the first year they had it running. The 'net would "blink" on and off every 5 minutes or so throughout the day. (It makes SSH'ing to your home to get some work done _impossible_.) It took them a whole year to get it fixed.