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:Source

[Tim C]

Python is interpreted, not compiled. When you distribute a python app, you are distributing its source.

One small step for Bram

[spyrochaete]

This is a cool bundle of torrent utilities but it's really not anything groundbreaking. Azureus has had the ability to automatically start downloading when .torrent files are in a specified directory for some time now. Still, every increment of functionality means that many more people sharing their content so that's nice for everyone!

Re:Great idea for legal torrents!

[larytet]

try gomyplace - can work as a very simple standalone HTTP server or you can share the file between friends

In case of HTTP server you just run it and move the file to folder where you ran the application. Works for PC/Mac/Linu, requires Java

In case of daemon with proxy - GMP connects to the external public proxy. Links to the shared files are static URLs (your IP does not have to be static) and you can send link to the file in e-mail or post on message board

Re:Really Cool

[larytet]

check gomyplace - no need for BT client on the downloader side, podcaster uploads file only once, public reverse proxy does the rest

Re:Great for Home Videos?

[larytet]

check gomyplace - no restrictions, your PC/Mac/Linux will upload the file only once, links to the files are static URLs, no static IP is required

Re:Windows?

[larytet]

if you run win32 - check gomyplace, no need for BT, your PC uploads the file only once, public reverse proxy does the rest, links to the files are static URLs and can be posted on message boards or sent in e-mail