Share torrent files via the other networks!

[McWalt]

Due to the problems with some torrent sites I suggest to share all your downloaded *.torrent files with Kazaa and whatever you use, so do I (I mean: just the small tracker).
I don't know how it works with the search, but I've been seeing people d/l them from me.

[puffdragon]

Why would you do this? Just share the downloaded file you got off of BitTorrent, not the .torrent file itself.

BitTorrent is a network for new files, if you are sharing old .torrents you are actually increasing the load on torrent sites, requesting old files no one is downloading anymore.

And how would this work if all the trackers are down anyway?

[McWalt]

Originally posted by puffdragon
Why would you do this? Just share the downloaded file you got off of BitTorrent, not the .torrent file itself.

BitTorrent is a network for new files, if you are sharing old .torrents you are actually increasing the load on torrent sites, requesting old files no one is downloading anymore.

From my experience the .torrent files are valid for more than a month. If you D/L i.e. a .torrent file for a cartoon called "The Samsons" and the page where you got it is down some days later the file is still available on Kazaa e.g..

Sharing the whole is possible as well, but it's bad to be the only source (my u/l is max 16 kb/s)

[Mitsugi]

Originally posted by McWalt
Due to the problems with some torrent sites I suggest to share all your downloaded *.torrent files with Kazaa and whatever you use, so do I (I mean: just the small tracker).
I don't know how it works with the search, but I've been seeing people d/l them from me.

the torrent is the file that has the info for the file and where the tracker is located at

if you share it
1. and the tracker goes down, the torrent is useless
2. and no one seeds the file(s), the torrent is useless

DO NOT SHARE IT.. The tracker cannot provide the bandwidth for the file forever