timdiggerm said:

Chewtobacca said:

timdiggerm said:

This is one of the biggest problems with this site : The current project distribution model basically relies on it being a small community, and the community's not going to get bigger without a way for just anyone to come here and download at least some kind of sample of why the Lucasfilm releases suck.

I see your point, but there is the newsgroup. All Adywan's AVCHD releases are there, and anyone can find them and download them however big the community becomes.

Excuse me, there is the what? I'm pretty decent at the whole internet thing, having been on the web since it was called the web back in 1998, computer science degree, etc, and I have no idea how to access "the newsgroup". Very few people use those things anymore; torrent is where it's at, when it comes to distribution.

Torrents are being used less and less now due to the frequency of prosecutions by the MPAA and other countries authorities, especially here in the UK. No one so far has ever been prosecuted for using usenet. plus you will always have to rely on people seeding a torrent where you don't have to worry about that with usenet, and with retention by many providers being 1 + year it's easy to reupload a release so it never disappears. And then theres the speed issue. Torrents are slow slow slow unless there are enough seeders or a seeder with a seedbox. Usenet you can get your full download speed.

But many are now using file hosting sites like rapidhshare to host their work. It's very rare now that an editor will use torrents to share their work.