Density, I honestly understand your train of thought: you have a certain system that is logical and works for you (in this case, torrents) and the way that this board is choosing to initially share this work is through a system that is totally different from yours (newsgroups and multiple rars+file sharing sites). I, personally, would prefer torrents as well. I honestly don’t want to pay for newsgroups and finding a clean download of jdownloader without spyware can be a little difficult.

However, if people are lashing out at you, it’s more because of your tone which, while I understand you had the best intentions, did come out sounding a little condescending. People have their reasons for not creating a public torrent and instead of saying: “Hey guys, I’m just curious why you don’t just distribute this by torrent. Is there some reason why?” You went for a more agressive tone (“this crap is useless, my way is so much better!”)

But please know that the more popular projects here end up on ye olden bandits of the sea bay and other public trackers pretty quickly. Other people are more than willing to do that and the original creators tend to be ok with it.