Originally posted by: ocpmovie
LOL. I love the pro-Mac vibe this thread has developed.
LOL. I love the pro-Mac vibe this thread has developed.
Pay the Devil his due -- that's a lot of tools available to us Windoze users that Mac just doesn't have (and many of us Windoze users are also Mac users who feel the same way about being "abandoned" by Steve Jobs as SW-fans do by George Lucas). Decent P2P tools being a glaring example -- and P2P transmission is apparently a problem here (ref: page12 of this thread). Usenet? Jeez, mon; this is 2007, not 1997. RapidShare? <retch>.
For example, in uTorrent, I can design a multi-tracker torrent so my upload is not enslaved to a single hosting site. Then, I can use MakeTorrent and Edxor to shuffle new tracker announce URLs in and out as I please, and upload new .torrent files to new places, and keep my torrents fresh without having to re-up megagigs.
Let's try using some of this ho-hum Windoze technology to get this film out in front of thousands of fans.... Hmmm... It's March 14, 2007, almost two years after the May 19, 2005 date of this thread's creation, and where is SW:CE being trading presently? Demonoid, apparently, is the only current repository (since Myspleen yanked a torrent there -- Cluebat: If they'd do this, why continue patronizing Myspleen? With all the hosting site competition out there, it's an uploaders market). Current traffic in the torrent is 2 seeds and 9 peers. The seeds are doling it out at starvation ration speeds, because on Demonoid, if a torrent ever goes without a seed, the clock starts ticking and the torrent will be deleted after a set period of time.
Keep that 2/9 seed/peer in mind, and I'll show you some tricks of the trade. Within a few days of this post, it's going to be WAY, WAY higher.
* First I DL the torrent from Demonoid (which has only been there four weeks as I post, with no pics and a poor choice of names and not much of a description), and open it up in my client of choice, uTorrent. I acertain that Demonoid's announce URL is the only one on the tracker list. Unfortunate, really. If you had a shiny, new car to sell, would you advertise in only one city? Of course not....
* I open up a "master" .torrent file in the text-editor Edxor, and cut-n-paste a great, heaping gob of tracker announce URLS, most public, some private, into the rescued-from-Demonoid torrent. (I've previously tweaked my master using MakeTorrent.) Freighted along with the cut-n-paste are any torrent comments I have (these are a list of URLs to my TorrentBox and Mininova pages). Right-click, save. Drag-drop new .torrent file onto uTorrent (while it has the original open and trading) to see if the "torrent already exists; add new trackers to it?" alert comes up, indicating to me that the all-important hash number hasn't been disturbed. I make slightly different .torrent files for sites that require their announce URL to be first in a multi-tracker list.
* Off I go to Torrentbox, Minninova, Piratebay, Fenopy, IsoHunt, etc, to upload the new .torrent. Bazillions of new peers line up at the turnstiles, and happily begin trading the already existing torrent being seeded over DHT.
Results: Torrentbox, TorrentPortal, Mininova, Torrentz mega-index
