Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay?

Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by joeguilmette on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @08:37PM (#82278)

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?

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by halo on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @09:21PM (#82297)

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).

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by rms on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @09:06PM (#82292)

What do you recommend for distributing files?

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by joeguilmette on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @12:56AM (#82368)

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.

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by rms on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @12:59AM (#82369)

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.

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