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New Auto-Seeding Torrent Server Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-life-easier dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Python's don't bite by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bullshit.

    The original bittorrent client is written in python and lots more are as well.
    take a look here.

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  2. Re:first post? by Kresh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nope. Not even after all these years.

  3. Google and Piracy by nstlgc · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I might be eligable for a tinfoil hat at this point, but I wonder how big Google's interest in piracy is. Yes, I know, BT is has legal uses, but they're sure not taking any steps to make the illegal sharing of information harder.
    Piracy is a tough enemy for companies who make money off there software, and seeing how Google does not fall into this category, raising the ease of piracy-related actions might be a way to fight their opponents on a level they themselves can't be fought at...

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  4. Re:Python's don't bite by Brando_Calrisean · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh my, you really are a bad analogy guy!

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  5. Re:sharing and shaving by bcattwoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I assumed he was talking about his wife's cat. Come to think of it, I don't think I have ever seen a sheep with a pet cat though.

  6. Re:Automatic + Open = Garbage in? by teflaime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Porn is trash? Since when?

  7. Re:sharing and shaving by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Speaking of shaving pussy...

    I Said I Wanted a LINE Cut!

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  8. caveat emptor by QMO · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    FYI: morse@email.com is a test. If you fail, the men in white coats will come and get you.

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