Ask YC?

Ask rms!

/funny because we laugh, funny because it is true

Host it at the PRQ and move to a country that won't extradite you to the USA. :)

I would also hire a team of ninjas to protect you! Move to Canada, and steal wireless from another igloo so you cannot be tracked. However, a serious drawback is that it will be dark 24 hours a day soon, and fishing is tough until the ice breaks in the spring.

Demonoid was taken down by Canadian version of RIAA so I doubt you'd find any safety in Canada.

But Richard Stallman has a katana. Or is he a Ninja Pirate?

Anyone else get excited the first time they saw a post from someone called 'rms' on a site based around hacking?

eh,

whats rms

You a big fan of herbal teas? (Just kidding!)

Inside joke. RMS is another poster on the board.

its like, as opposed to pmpo, the real thing

there are a variety of open source bittorrent trackers out there that are easy to set up an administer.

it's similar to many other sites, easy to set up, hard to get people to use it.

the software is the easy part, the community is not.

Apparently the open-source bittorrent trackers scale horribly. Oink used a custom bitorrent tracker, and waffles.fm and what.cd had bumpy starts because the free trackers they were using couldn't handle the traffic.

all three of those us the same base - torrentbits. torrentbits is an awful tracker. you ever wonder why oink spent like $30k/mo in server fees.

why do you want to use bittorrent to distribute files?

OiNK's tracker was rewritten in its entirety by one of the admins.

I seriously doubt they spent $30k/month on server fees (citation?), but it wouldn't surprise me if they spent a lot - do consider they needed to servers with an ISP that wouldn't shut them down, the sheer amount of requests (300,000+ users, each of their torrents announcing every 60 min, plus startup and shutdown).

What do you recommend for distributing files?

well, unless you want to share linux distributions, there aren't many legal. reasons to run bittorrent.

most large files that need to be sent are already sufficiently monetized that distribution isn't an issue.

gotcha, I misunderstood your post above. It's said that 40% of internet traffic is bittorrent and surely 90% is illegal. Piracy is definitely one of the killer apps of the internet.