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PostPosted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:37 am 
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My torrent tracker will track a single legal torrent file that I have all the rights to. May I run a torrent tracker on linode servers?


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:39 am 
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http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm#what-can- ... -my-linode


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:46 am 
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Thanks for the FAQ! It seems like I'm okay, but I wanted to receive confirmation from someone in pre-sales.


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:21 am 
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Be sure to enable info_hash and whitelisting for your torrent tracker, otherwise you could inadvertently begin to host torrents for not-so-legal means.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:33 am 
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yeah its OK to run a torrent tracker or seed for properly licensed content


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:25 am 
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In fact, I wish more people would. Too often you see some small indie outfit trying to distribute a big file (a game demo, a fan film, etc) and just failing miserably, or relying on a big list of dodgey mirrors. This is what BitTorrent was designed for!

Actually, sometimes you see a big company trying to release something and failing to get adequate capacity lined up.

BitTorrent is *better* suited for legal content than illegal content, and these days torrent clients have an install base large enough that you can use BitTorrent as your primary distribution mechanism with HTTP as a fallback.


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