Introduction
Having posted my copy of the snipsnap .tgz package and thinking about a presentation I was planing to do on privacy and copy right I began to investigate Bittorrent. The Pirate Bay trial is going on at the moment and the peer-to-peer nature of bt appeals to many libertarians.
I have downloaded and installed Bit Torrent from the http://bittorrent.com, downloads page.
I tested it using Open Office which has a bit torrent distribution page. This has downloaded and seeded. I need to check if it requires firewall configuration to participate in a feed.
Ubuntu has both bittorrent and bittornado as packages.
Other Links
- http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=maketorrent&ie=utf-8
- http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-create-a-torrent/ , interesting blog name.
- This page is how to make a torrent but its part of a FAQ-o-matic FAQ, with a home page of http://www.btfaq.com
To Do
Can I install a version on Linux, can I make my qube a seed server, or even davelevy.info?
It looks fairly simple to create the .torrent file. I expect I can use my web version as the internet seed and a public tracker
What are my Firewall implications?
I removed some dead links. My qube is dead and I do not have sufficient admin rights on davelevy.info, so I need another answer if I want to persist with this.