Avarath said:

pmonroe said:

Somehow, this BT news doesn't surprise me. :-/ The idea of self-hosting is interesting, though I would imagine it would be too much trouble for Team Blu to manage "memberships". I hope something gets worked out sooner than later, because BT was such a great way to share Team Blu's work.

You can setup a "members" section using Wordpress as a front end pretty simple. The problem would be the actual download links.. Would they be direct links? If so, what prevents members sharing these "download links" with non members. There may be a free addon that adds a solution to this.

Right now, with my current host we pay about $80/year for unlimited space and bandwidth for our domain. Isn't too expensive for your own web site. Includes WordPress capability. I'd be willing to help if this is something considered, assuming help was needed.

I do like the other idea of donations for a torrent. You'd definitely have mine.

Not a bad idea, but that could be interpreted by certain authorities as Team Blu selling access to the content. (Even though the cash would only be used for web hosting, they would still see Team Blu collecting money in exchange for download links, and that could spell trouble.)

In my humble opinion, bittorrent is the ultimate way to distribute the content. Public trackers are a problem due to people getting DMCA notices from their ISPs, so a good private bittorrent tracker is ideal. It really is a shame that things didn't work out at Blu-Torrents, because that was a great tracker for Team-Blu's work while it lasted. Surely there must be another private tracker that would accept Team Blu's work, and also would not be too difficult for the readers of this forum to get invites to...