On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Conor Schaefer wrote: > I love this idea, but I also think it would be great for FC to > investigate launching a torrent tracker for broader distribution. > Perhaps that's lofty thinking, and certainly also require additional > resource commitment.
There are already a bunch of legal torrent trackers. Of our limited time, I think it's probably better spent getting more activities on more college campuses. http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Legal_torrent_sites seems to be an actively-maintained list of them. > We'd never want to conflate piracy with FC, as Elizabeth knows full well > even the NYT isn't beyond doing, but isn't this somewhere we should be > heading? Trying to legitimize free, broad exchange of CC material? > > I hope to see it one day, at least, but it would potentially require > substantial oversight to make sure that CC material is posted... That's the thing - I fear that it may be more work than it's worth, especially when others like wortharchiving.com are working on the same thing. Having said that, I would *love* to see us use our bandwidth for *seeding* legal torrents. That would be easy, and if someone knows of a good tool for making that easy, I would respond with enthusiasm and effort. > A thousand thumbs up to the FTP dump! Awesome work, board. =) And me, who set it up. (-; -- Asheesh. -- Where you stand depends on where you sit. -- Rufus Miles, HEW _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
