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. See the comments for chronology!
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
- Here is how to install μtorrent on ubuntu, looks like user space only, so could be what I need for davelevy.info.
- Here’s some free and legal tracker sites.
- Here’s a utserver.conf at github
To Do
Using a client on windows seems simple enough, can I install a version on Linux, and make davelevy.info the server?
Is my raspbery pi, a suitable server?
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.
I removed the following words from the article, which were about 10 years old, all the technology has come on a lot.
This was originally written at a time that the BT Home Hub needed the firewall configured, it was mentioned but no configuration documented, although I seem to remember that the port forwarding page need to be opened and the bit torrent protocol authorised.
I also removed mention of my now departed Cobalt Qube.