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Title: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on October 27, 2005, 11:17:28 PM
Well, I've finally ended our agreement with Download Radio, and thanks to "ceb" we have placed torrents of Apr-Sep where the old Download Radio link was in the archive column of FreeTalkLive.com.

This means no more problems with Download Radio's spotty coverage of our archives.  You'll find that you only need to access one torrent for an entire month's worth of shows.

You will need a BitTorrent client.  I reccommend Azureus: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

This new setup will also make it easier for people to seed our archives.  "Seeding" means that once you're done downloading the files, you leave Azureus open so it can continue serving the files to other downloaders.  The more seeds we have, the faster the downloads will go, so please seed!  There are already a few seeds, but we need far more.

Please feel free to post these torrents on torrent sites, and share them with your friends!

Enjoy!
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: sfliberty on October 27, 2005, 11:25:02 PM
Awesome!  Why don't you link to the page with the current month's mp3's too.  Just so we can get shows from within a couple of weeks of today.  Just a thought, don't know if there's a problem with this that I can't see.  It's good that you're doing this.  I'm currently seeding those torrents
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on October 28, 2005, 01:23:47 AM
Nah, there will be a gap until we get a full month to post.  Good suggestion though.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: rabidfurby on October 28, 2005, 01:25:48 AM
Awesome. I started seeding these last night and already have about 300mb uploaded. I'm on a university connection too, so I can hit 200-300KB/s upload pretty easily. (and up to 1MB/s down at night after they turn the bandwidth prioritization off - I'm gonna need a new hard drive soon after filling this one with..uh...public domain stuff and various other things that aren't pornography)

Edit: Will new archives still have the .zip files posted for straight download?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on October 28, 2005, 01:41:00 AM
The only thing that bugs me is that the trackers are run by the conspiracy crowd.. I need to talk to Torgo about setting up our own.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: R3public_Gh0st on October 28, 2005, 03:09:48 AM
We own this world, Ian.  Get used to it.  We "conspiracy kooks" will be the ones saving your sorry ass from the demons when they come for your pathetic little soul.


MUUUHOOWAAAHAAHAAaaaaa.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on October 28, 2005, 04:25:28 PM
So, now there's a conspiracy of conspiracyites?   :P
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: koolaide on October 28, 2005, 04:35:31 PM
Nice! I'll be seeding!  8)
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on October 28, 2005, 04:41:15 PM
Why is it that the one file (May) on the tracker "the.nwotracker.info" has so many more seeds?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: sfliberty on October 28, 2005, 09:35:49 PM
Maybe people want it, I don't know.  My seeds are seeding right now, they're taking a while, but I've had them up for a few days, and will continue to keep them up when I'm not using the internet (they slow my connection down some, but I don't mind when It's not sucking up bandwith for my browsing).  Wow, that was a long sentence.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: fourthgeek on October 28, 2005, 10:51:05 PM
I personally prefer the Bitlord client, but whatever.

I might start seeding files too, once I finish downloading a few unscrupulous other things...

Also, It's my understanding that when you download more than one file at a time, it greatly reduces the download's efficiency. Your overall speed decreases. So I'd suggest just one at a time.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: sfliberty on October 29, 2005, 12:22:41 AM
If that was directed to me, I've already downloaded all of them, just the seeding is a little slow, even on a cable modem.  whatever, glad to help people get FTL.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on October 31, 2005, 02:49:11 PM
Anyone else with thoughts on the decentralized tracker option?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: R3public_Gh0st on October 31, 2005, 02:57:19 PM
Anyone else with thoughts on the decentralized tracker option?
You can follow the skid marks up your underwear to your own shit-stained ass for all I care. :)
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Deived on October 31, 2005, 03:34:28 PM

Question...  Can I upload the zips onto my web domain to seed from there?  That way people would be downloading from my domain rather than direct from my PC?  I'm not too familiar with how the back-end of torrents work.  Id like to help, but, I dont want to use all of my bandwidth either and thought that might be a good idea.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: ceb on November 01, 2005, 06:06:21 PM
Wow I was surprised to see this!  On the 10-28 show (or so) I heard Ian say that now all 6 months were available and Manwich saying really?

Anyway the OCT torrent is here : http://www.getoutstayout.org/torrent/FreeTalkLive-Oct-2005.torrent
readme here : http://www.getoutstayout.org/torrent/readme-1005.html

As for running a tracker - Ian and Torgo - I've found that Azureus makes hosting your own very easy.  Probably the easiest solution to the problem....  After you have your own tracker could might want to regenerate the .torret files to use your own tracker - and also to remove my "readme.html" file - as it points back to getoutstayout.org so that people can find more torrents...

I agree that using the conspiracy central tracker might not be the best idea - but after searching for a good tracker it turns out to be the most reliable one I could locate.

Also - individual MP3s for OCT are here : http://ftl.dideas.com/oct2005/
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on November 01, 2005, 10:40:09 PM
Oct is now on the front page of the site.  Thanks ceb for being the FTL Torrent Master!   :D

In regards to us doing our own tracker, it's not possible as the server company we use blocks the BT ports, apparently.  Oh well, I don't think many people bother to look at the tracker name anyway.  Not a big deal..
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion - more on trackers
Post by: ceb on November 01, 2005, 10:53:01 PM
I'd avoid requiring the use the azureus decentralized tracker as that of course forces people to azureus.  Instead just use azureus to host the tracker (or better yet use both methods if possible).  We just need to figure out who has the most reliable machine with a static IP and have them run a tracker.  That machine could also be the seed - but need not be....

So far I've been hosting the initial seeds from two "24x7" PCs - one at home and one in my office so uptime is > 99%.  I'm happy to keep doing this.  But ideally someone could find a different tracker that will still be alive in 6 or 12 months.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: bonerjoe on November 01, 2005, 11:03:15 PM
I have 16 gigabytes of disk space on my website available. If anyone wants to send me a couple of burned DVD's of MP3's I will host them, no torrents needed.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on November 01, 2005, 11:19:16 PM
Torrents are cool, and good.  Azureus makes distributing gigabytes easy without taxing one person's bandwidth.

But feel free to host if you like.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: bonerjoe on November 01, 2005, 11:28:18 PM
I have all the bandwith in the world...
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Lindsey on November 02, 2005, 12:03:14 AM
I think it might be a good idea, for those who are torrent-challenged.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion - zip files
Post by: ceb on November 02, 2005, 04:01:18 AM

I have 16 gigabytes of disk space on my website available. If anyone wants to send me a couple of burned DVD's of MP3's I will host them, no torrents needed.

I started by hosting ZIPs but decided to try torrents as there are lots of places to list them and return new people to FTL.

Anyway, the ZIPs are located at:  http://ftl.dideas.com/ 

Chris
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion - Indymedia?
Post by: ceb on November 02, 2005, 04:25:53 AM
Any thoughts on using the indymedia.org trackers?
http://indytorrents.org/

Also could be a great place to upload MP3s and spread the word to a lot of angry people....
http://radio.indymedia.org/publish.php

Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on November 02, 2005, 08:29:03 AM
If you want to change the torrents to their tracker, go ahead.  I'll repost them.

Has anyone listed us on any torrent sites?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: rabidfurby on November 02, 2005, 01:17:04 PM
If you want to change the torrents to their tracker, go ahead.  I'll repost them.

If you do this, the best way would be to use the multi-tracker feature that most (all?) modern clients support and have the indymedia tracker listed first, followed by the old kook tracker as a backup. This will allow people to continue to seed without having to update their torrents. Then starting with November's torrent, list Indymedia as the only tracker.

Has anyone listed us on any torrent sites?

http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=free+talk+live
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: ceb on November 02, 2005, 01:31:10 PM
I'll test indytorrents for a few days and if it looks good change the .torrets to use that server.
[EDIT: Need to obtain an account to upload.  Trying to discover how to do this...]

I see that the torrents are on both mininova.org and meganova.org.  However what seems to work well are smaller topic specific posts like this one : http://conspiracycentral.net:6969/index.html?search=utah

Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on November 03, 2005, 05:26:11 PM
If one of you can do the multi tracker thing with Pirate Bay as primary, go ahead, I'll post them!

Thanks!!
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: ceb on November 04, 2005, 05:37:13 AM

http://thepiratebay.org might be a good tracker to use.  They're based in Sweden and aren't getting shutdown any time soon.  FTL would probably get more exposure on that tracker as well.   It's HUGE!!

rancemuhamitz, I saw your April FTL torrent at piratebay.  Does it use multiple trackers?  I'm having trouble uploading OCT to their site with multitrackers.  The upload fails with "invalid" tracker.  Any ideas?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on November 07, 2005, 12:51:41 PM
Should I replace the torrents on the main page with those?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: mbd on November 11, 2005, 08:50:09 PM
Anybody know of a free torrent tracker?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: itstwowords on November 16, 2005, 12:53:52 PM
Okay, I've downloaded the torrent stuff from Azureus and installed it, but when I click one of the archives all I get is the Microsoft "Open file with which application" dialog.  Am I doing something wrong?

tnx
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: MobileDigit on November 16, 2005, 02:34:26 PM
Download the .torrent, then open it with Azureus, choose a path to save the file to, and wait.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Zephae on November 16, 2005, 06:45:19 PM
Hey now i have a second reason to download BitTorrent.  Naruto will make me happy =D
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: itstwowords on November 17, 2005, 09:48:12 AM
I almost have Azureus up and running.  Is there a way go get around the firewall here?  Azureus says it can't test the Incoming TCP Port 6881.  I've tried several other ports as well.

tnx
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Russ84 on November 17, 2005, 01:08:39 PM
Azureus says it can't test the Incoming TCP Port 6881.

What brand and model of router are you using? You probably need to set up port forwarding.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: itstwowords on November 17, 2005, 01:28:42 PM
Azureus says it can't test the Incoming TCP Port 6881.

What brand and model of router are you using? You probably need to set up port forwarding.

That's the problem.  The firewall / routers are owned by "The Man", so I can't mess with them.  I suspect that I'm out of luck.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: thewaka on November 17, 2005, 07:07:44 PM
I'm using BitTorrent from bittorrent.com which has worked successfully before, just yesterday as a matter of fact. But trying to use the October torrent, I got the following error:

"FreeTalkLive-Oct-2005" : Aborting the torrent as it was rejected by the tracker while not connected to any peers. Message from the tracker:     requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker


Any ideas? I ended up DLing the three segments individually that I somehow missed using iTunes (thanks for that link, ceb). Oh, I have used Azureus but like this client better.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: maze on November 26, 2005, 06:25:06 PM
For a tracker you should try http://www.mininova.org/, in the 'Other' section, you'll see other radio shows on there.

For a Torrent Client, AZ is great, but people with slower computers might want to try µTorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/). It doesn't use a ton of ram like AZ plus it doesn't require updating java when updating the client.

If your having connection troubles, check out http://www.portforward.com/ and http://forums.degreez.net/.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: sillyperson on December 30, 2005, 03:55:06 PM
For the record, I've been seeding Nov and Oct for the past 2 weeks :)

Thanks ceb (http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?action=profile;u=820) for introducing me to Azureus and giving me the .torrent bug;
resulting in me playing around with the FTL archive torrents, and then playing around with Azureus,
and then playing around with port forwarding on my router, and then playing around with public trackers...

The upshot of all of which is, I've put together a .torrent of my DVD of Free State Project (and Free Talk Live) video clips.
Sorry for the crosspost, but I thought folks tracking this thread would find it interesting/useful:
http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=4432

Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: mbd on December 30, 2005, 11:45:54 PM
TurboTorrent 1.0.7 has a trojan virus, at least if you get it from turbotorrent.com.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: ljossberir on February 04, 2006, 07:00:42 PM
I have just finished downloading 3 different months of FTL. I will leave those 3 months open for the next 24-36 hours so hopefully I can upload to some of you.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on February 17, 2006, 01:52:19 AM
APR-JUL is timing out.  Ceb?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: rabidfurby on March 25, 2006, 01:30:34 AM
The trackers the torrents are on now suck pretty hard. Torgo, if you want to set up an official FTL bittorrent tracker, I'll remake the torrents (including new ones for 2005-02 and 2005-03 from this thread (http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=5863.0) that MobileDigit posted). That'll give us 14 months of archives.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on March 25, 2006, 02:50:51 AM
Why do they suck?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: rabidfurby on March 25, 2006, 03:00:14 AM
They use two different trackers, tracker.prq.to for 2005-11 and 2005-12, conspiracycentral.net for all the others. The two that use tracker.prq.to work OK for me, but I get random timeouts on the conspiracycentral.net ones while seeding them.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on April 01, 2006, 11:43:21 PM
CEB has updated all the torrents to new trackers.  We should be good to go.  FTL now recommends Utorrent:  http://utorrent.com
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Bill Brasky on April 02, 2006, 12:38:34 AM
In the past few months, I've tried at least four torrent clients, bittorrent, bitcomet, one I cant remember, and finally settled on Azureus, which seems to work best for me.  (also limewire, which is a piece of shit, I dont even count it among the list)

I like Azureus for two reasons, it seems to be more stable and doesnt suck down all your ram causing a crash or a half-crash, where everything is just fucked for a few minutes until it catches its breath.(I've found Firefox more gentle on simultanius web surfing/torrent loading, as opposed to IE) 

Two, people sometimes block clients based on reasons I dont fully understand, it seems some clients announce themselves in a hacker method, or they unfairly seed to other people who use the same client.  Apparently, Azuerus doesnt do that, and is accepted by the web-geek community, thus no blocking.

Opinions, comments ?  UTorrent users want to chime in on the stability issue, or the blocking ?   
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: argash on April 03, 2006, 01:43:33 AM
I belong to several private trackers and they've all banned uTorrent for the reasons described. Azereus does have some issues (its java based and can hog your ram at times) but overall it is my favorite and has alot of 3rd party plugins available to extend its functionality.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Bill Brasky on April 03, 2006, 03:11:01 AM
I belong to several private trackers and they've all banned uTorrent for the reasons described. Azereus does have some issues (its java based and can hog your ram at times) but overall it is my favorite and has alot of 3rd party plugins available to extend its functionality.

Ya, I didnt mean to suggest Azereus was flawless by any means.  It does the ram hog thing once in a while, but it recovers, unlike Bittorrent acted (for me).  I'm strictly amateur, so I'm behind the learning curve.  The bittorrent crashes surprised me, cause I heard it was pretty good, due to its size, and the fact they are the "origional creators" (or so they claim).  I'm pretty sure it was bittorrent, their logo is a black ball.  I might not have had Bittorrent configured properly. 
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: error on April 03, 2006, 08:10:09 AM
The latest versions of BitTorrent are pretty conservative in their usage of RAM and other such resources. I've never actually liked any other BT client than the original.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: mbd on April 03, 2006, 02:58:29 PM
How much RAM does it take up? I guess I've had a few problems in the past and never thought that they might be memory-related. Generally, I've had good performance since I started using Azureus, and I typically leave it running for a long time.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Bill Brasky on April 04, 2006, 12:47:19 PM
How much RAM does it take up? I guess I've had a few problems in the past and never thought that they might be memory-related. Generally, I've had good performance since I started using Azureus, and I typically leave it running for a long time.

I dont know the specifics of ram usage, I just know it becomes unstable when you multitask (launch IE while doing a download, and seeding, for example)  It would probably help if I defrag'd and freed up a few gigs of memory from old useless shit.  Sometimes if I have AOL up (I keep it for the kids, and mail, surf with firefox) AOL blows goats.  AOL is a blight on humanity. 
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: mbd on April 04, 2006, 02:13:07 PM
I think it may have more to do with the multitasking thing. I have 2G of RAM. XP still does paging, but it shouldn't be that much. And Java is notorious for requiring different versions for different programs, or vice versa. Still, Azureous performs well and doesn't usually cause problems for me.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: error on April 10, 2006, 03:36:21 AM
Code: [Select]
F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
0   500 21124     1  15   0 199608 32936 stext  Sl   ?         71:35 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/bittorrent
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: mbd on April 10, 2006, 02:12:25 PM
OK, looks like a ps output, but not a format I'm familiar with. Which column is RAM?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: error on June 21, 2006, 06:15:09 AM
RSS is resident set size (what's in RAM); everything else is shared libraries, etc., not loaded up.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: firenu on July 01, 2006, 02:18:09 PM
may torrent:
01.07.2006 19:50:38 - Bad data from tracker - bad bencoded data
but then proceeded to download. slowly.
april torrent:
01.07.2006 19:55:05 - Bad data from tracker - bad bencoded data
01.07.2006 19:56:36 - Rejected by tracker - need info_hash
and has not proceeded to dl.

seems my client (ABC, not very good) cant get stuff from the main seeder/tracker/whatever but is able to connect to one or more of the other people downloading the same file ?

Either theres something wrong with the latest torrents / the tracker, or i should change client :P

Edit: speed skyrocketed when more users came online ^_^ - all done
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: mbd on July 03, 2006, 01:03:11 AM
I'm trying to constantly share all of these torrents now, and I have a 9MB cable connection.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Skooma on August 21, 2006, 02:58:37 PM
The torrent links are cut off at August 2005. I got a folder of July 2005 shows from a torrent that I listen to whilst playing games.

Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: mbd on August 22, 2006, 02:19:12 AM
I'm seeding back to 7/05. I should post links somewhere I guess. Plus, for AMPlifiers, the CLASSIC archives!
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: error on October 10, 2006, 07:23:36 PM
Can someone please reseed the April through August 2005 torrents? Thanks!
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: mbd on October 16, 2006, 08:51:35 PM
Can someone please reseed the April through August 2005 torrents? Thanks!

JUNE05 (http://magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ZN2CGYTVCOTSSXKSOIBQ4W46EJVXQGVV)
JULY05 (http://magnet:?xt=urn:btih:EDR3ZLUO2XSXQJY3FXFDNLBI5UC4KISL)
AUG05 (http://magnet:?xt=urn:btih:KZR3VANMAPS6KCVIUHYF63JQYHVP7R2Y)

I'm seeding all three continuously. These links should work if you have Azureus. Let me know if you have any trouble.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: error on October 18, 2006, 10:17:06 PM
JUNE05 (http://magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ZN2CGYTVCOTSSXKSOIBQ4W46EJVXQGVV)
JULY05 (http://magnet:?xt=urn:btih:EDR3ZLUO2XSXQJY3FXFDNLBI5UC4KISL)
AUG05 (http://magnet:?xt=urn:btih:KZR3VANMAPS6KCVIUHYF63JQYHVP7R2Y)

I'm seeding all three continuously. These links should work if you have Azureus. Let me know if you have any trouble.

I've had them open for a few weeks, but I haven't seen much of anything actually coming in. I'll check it again when I get home.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: truberg on December 06, 2006, 04:07:20 PM
I have been having trouble getting past torrent archives.  I tried with three different BitTorrent clients with no luck.  Each one says the torrent file is bad.  Does anyone know what is going on with these?  I'm new to using Torrents so any advice would be helpful!
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on December 06, 2006, 06:06:41 PM
Hmm, anyone else having trouble?  I'm connected and see several seeds per torrent.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: IxxJOExxI on December 06, 2006, 08:03:02 PM
hmm its going to suck if i cant grt to the archives kuz i have 8 hrs a day on the job that i listen to the show and im all out.. i guess i can try to AMP again with my CC
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: truberg on December 12, 2006, 02:52:04 PM
Seems to be working now!  Praise be to the power that fixed it :)
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on December 13, 2006, 01:18:06 PM
Ceb, who normally creates our monthly torrent files has been MIA so far this month.  Anyone interested in stepping up and creating this month's .torrent so I can let Ceb off the hook?  Email me if you can help.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: gRegor on March 23, 2007, 12:42:30 PM
Are all archives still being seeded?  I don't have a torrent app on this computer to check, but I was just wondering as I'm working on the show archive categories on the wiki.

Would a torrent for all of the 2005 shows take too long to download?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: error on March 23, 2007, 04:17:04 PM
I'm seeding everything from November 2006 to present.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: rabidfurby on March 23, 2007, 07:05:20 PM
I'm seeding 2007-01 and 2007-02. I also have every archive back to 2005-01-31. I just made a torrent (http://zackelan.homelinux.org:8080/FreeTalkLive-2006.torrent) for all of 2006. I could do one for 2005 as well, but I'd prefer to have January 2005 complete first. Error, could you pester Ian about this? I've asked him before, but he ignored me.

Would a torrent for all of the 2005 shows take too long to download?

2005 (excluding 01-01 through 01-30) is 3.9gb. 2006 is 8gb, due to the increase in archive bitrate. So it'd take awhile, but no longer than downloading all of the archives in 12 separate torrents (probably be a little faster as one torrent, in fact, due to the lower overhead of one torrent vs. 12). And every torrent client worth its salt lets you specify files you don't want to download, so if someone wanted just a single month, or even a single day, that'd be no harder to do than it is now.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: error on March 23, 2007, 08:16:23 PM
About January of 2005? What makes you think he wouldn't ignore me as well? :P
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Lindsey on March 24, 2007, 02:12:00 AM
About January of 2005? What makes you think he wouldn't ignore me as well? :P

Because...well, you have hair and a face.  And I know this is shocking, but the furbuster lacks such qualities.  I feel that Ian is prejudice against the hairless and faceless. 


I swear I'm not drunk. 
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: gRegor on March 26, 2007, 10:49:29 AM
Sounds good, rabidfurby.

For now I think I'll remove the 2005 column from the Main Page and just leave 2006 and 2007 on there if that's alright.  When we have the 2005 torrent we can work on an archives page that will include all torrent links.

I have hair and a face too, (*points to avatar*), so maybe I'll pester Ian too :)
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: ldiv on September 26, 2007, 03:08:39 AM
It seems that the tracker for the Nov 2006 to Jul 2007 torrents (www2.ioerror.us:6969) is no longer running.  The other trackers are fine.  Is this tracker working for anyone else?  Are new torrent files needed?  Or should I just stop trying to seed these particular torrents?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: sillyperson on September 26, 2007, 08:54:09 AM
email error@freetalklive.com and ask him
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: FTL_Ian on September 26, 2007, 03:34:33 PM
error is missing in action.  We may need new torrents.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: bonerjoe on September 26, 2007, 03:35:57 PM
error is missing in action.

WTF happened to that beaner?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: John Shaw on September 26, 2007, 03:37:04 PM
Last few times he posted he was pretty crabby.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Ed on September 26, 2007, 03:57:32 PM
He probably had a stroke.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: John Shaw on September 26, 2007, 03:59:12 PM
Or went on a killing spree, while calling random innocent people shitheads.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: libertylover on October 11, 2009, 12:38:04 AM
No one is seeding Sept 09.  Or is there an error?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Alex Libman 15 on October 11, 2009, 01:12:02 AM
Yeah, the sole tracker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker) (3322.org (http://btfans.3322.org:6969/announce)) says "failure: requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker".

Using μTorrent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTorrent), I did get 3 peers from DHT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table) / PEX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_exchange), but the download rate was ~47 kB/s (3-4 days for the whole thing).

Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Terror Australis on October 11, 2009, 01:44:16 AM
Im downloading all of the archives that are available via utorrent so I will be seeding them if my computer is on.The september one doesnt have any seeds available.

You could try this tracker Ian http://openbittorrent.com/ (http://openbittorrent.com/)

It is an open version of the pirate bay tracker which isnt tied to a bittorrent index.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: libertylover on October 11, 2009, 08:52:40 AM
I wasn't trying to get the whole month and over night it downloaded so thank-you whoever seeded it.  I am seeding but like I said I only went for a handful of shows not the whole month.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith) on October 11, 2009, 05:53:47 PM
You folks need to submit each torrent to thepiratebay and mininova so more people can find it.

Optimally I'd like anyone to be able to search http://www.torrentz.com/search?q=free+talk+live and find all of the torrents of the show.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Alex Libman 15 on October 11, 2009, 10:42:23 PM
Why group them by month?  It would make more sense to distribute each day's show via P2P individually, in addition to the regular podcast distribution.  Some P2P clients can use RSS as well.  The point is that if something happens to the centralized HTTP server that's servicing the podcasts, or if some peer can serve it to you faster, you'd get the podcast through the best means available.
Title: Archive Torrent Dis
Post by: malinkaspost on October 23, 2009, 01:05:22 PM
bannd
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: briantomhson on November 11, 2009, 10:16:46 AM
You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: AL the Inconspicuous on November 11, 2009, 11:19:24 AM
bannd

You made some good points there.
I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog.


Can you both please clarify what who you're talking to / what you're talking about?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Ramosian on November 16, 2009, 01:47:24 PM
Hey I totally missed this topic the other day. If everyone else wants off the hook I'll start uploading the torrents. I have a lot of good trackers in my list, so it may help with the error I get from the current sole tracker. Also I am currently upping the current archives on mininova.org so that more people can get exposed to the show, as I said on my post the other day. I can get lots of exposure if I have the "copyright holder"'s permission to use content distribution. And with that come a permanent seeder (the site itself).
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith) on November 16, 2009, 02:21:35 PM
Hey I totally missed this topic the other day. If everyone else wants off the hook I'll start uploading the torrents. I have a lot of good trackers in my list, so it may help with the error I get from the current sole tracker. Also I am currently upping the current archives on mininova.org so that more people can get exposed to the show, as I said on my post the other day. I can get lots of exposure if I have the "copyright holder"'s permission to use content distribution. And with that come a permanent seeder (the site itself).
They would love for you to host the torrents for them online.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Ramosian on November 16, 2009, 02:27:46 PM
Hey I totally missed this topic the other day. If everyone else wants off the hook I'll start uploading the torrents. I have a lot of good trackers in my list, so it may help with the error I get from the current sole tracker. Also I am currently upping the current archives on mininova.org so that more people can get exposed to the show, as I said on my post the other day. I can get lots of exposure if I have the "copyright holder"'s permission to use content distribution. And with that come a permanent seeder (the site itself).
They would love for you to host the torrents for them online.
Just to clarify, for reason of men with guns/those thugs, this means I have full permission to use the "copyright holder" agreement?
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith) on November 16, 2009, 02:29:14 PM
Hey I totally missed this topic the other day. If everyone else wants off the hook I'll start uploading the torrents. I have a lot of good trackers in my list, so it may help with the error I get from the current sole tracker. Also I am currently upping the current archives on mininova.org so that more people can get exposed to the show, as I said on my post the other day. I can get lots of exposure if I have the "copyright holder"'s permission to use content distribution. And with that come a permanent seeder (the site itself).
They would love for you to host the torrents for them online.
Just to clarify, for reason of men with guns/those thugs, this means I have full permission to use the "copyright holder" agreement?
Consider their permission granted.
Title: Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
Post by: Ramosian on November 16, 2009, 02:42:15 PM
Okay, I have applied with them for an account for content distribution, I should know in a few days. If so, all new archives and any I can get my hands on will have a permanent seed.