New Auto-Seeding Torrent Server Released

ludwigvan968 writes "The University of Texas New Media Initiative in association with Google's Summer of Code program have been working on a project to make sharing files over the internet easier than ever before. Summer of Code intern Evan Wilson just released Project Snakebite, the first fully automatic BitTorrent server. Just as with a normal webserver, you drop files in a folder to share them. Snakebite takes care of generating torrent files and running a tracker and a seeder for each file. Additionally, it builds a user-customizable link page with all of your files. It will even register your Snakebite server with an easy to remember URL for people that can't remember their IP. Snakebite is free and open software and is currently released for Debian. It's fully portable to both Windows and OS X and the developers just need some help packaging it."

Comments

Re:OK, but is it anonymous?

[James McGuigan]

When sharing is outlawed only outlaws will share

Re:Automatic + Open = Garbage in?

[Anonymous Coward]

Trash? That's my gold!!!

Re:OK, but is it anonymous?

[truedfx]

Illegally doing anything is illegal. If it's not illegal, and you do it, you're not illegally doing it. Duh.

Re:OK, but is it anonymous?

[IAR80]

If you are suspected of filesharing you should be sent to Guantanamo.
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Re:OK, but is it anonymous?

[bcattwoo]

You can have my warez when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.

Re:OK, but is it anonymous?

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Who are you? Me?

Re:OK, but is it anonymous?

[denebian devil]

Yeah, it breaks down like this: okay, it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it and, if you're the proprietor of a music or video store, it's legal to sell it. It's illegal to seed it, but, but - but that doesn't matter 'cause -- get a load of this, alright -- if you get stopped by a lawsuit, you can just claim it was someone else using your IP address.

Re:OK, but is it anonymous?

[elrous0]

Actually, Guantanamo is soooo passé these days in the intelligence world. It's the detention facility for TOURISTS. There are dozens of much better, more secretive facilities to send them to now where the New York Times and Supreme Court will never find them. Only poseur intelligence agencies still disappear their detainees to Guantanamo.

-Eric