Bit Torrent

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://krypt.dyndns.org:81/torrent/maketorrent/
• http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-create-a-torrent/ , interesting blog name.
• http://dessent.net/btfaq/
• 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
• http://www.tamilmovietracker.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8 another tutorial about how to make a torrent

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 crerate the .torrent file. I expect I can use my web version as the internet seed and a public tracker

What are my Firewall implications?