On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:58:21PM -0700, David Barrett wrote: > Totally agree with Serguei. My wish list of BT improvements probably > has little to do with BT, and more with the tracker sites: > > 1) Get rid of pointless RAR encoding > 2) Add digital signing of torrents and use ebay style ratings (to filter > out fakes) > 3) Pick the best of a given piece of content rather than list a bunch of > equivalents
Many invite-only trackers enforce these by banning users who upload bad/dup'ed/mismarked/poorly encoded content. Preventing .rar/.zip torrents is easy enough to do programmatically, but for (2) and (3) it seems you would need human intervention of some kind. > 4) Have metadata based indexing rather than just keywords (title, > season, episode, artist, album, etc) FWIW, I've used at least two trackers that handled this very well (and many others that didn't). -Jack _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
