Don't really understand this. From a technical perspective isn't this what local peer discovery, DHT and PEX do in a BT client - find local peers? From what I understand the advantage of a local tracker would only mean that most peers would be locally (initially at least) but how does that benefit a user? I am not aware of any ISP offering quicker speeds only locally. If the purpose is local content and MCSK would interfere wouldn't it be better to create a specific account at one of the big trackers that only uploads local content? On the other hand ... maintaining a tracker in Kenya could be very cool if MCSK are relaxed about international content and the purpose would be to attract a lot of foreign visitors to the site. Problem is as always with hosting any bandwidth intense application locally ... the price of bandwidth. There is also the option of a local direct connect hub - would maybe make more sense depending on the purpose (if someone still uses them :)? On 10/21/2010 08:28 PM, [ Brainiac ] wrote:
im interested on the principle, not the content. (:-) ) If we have a local torrents search engine, with actual torrents that are local (or at least the first stop for most torrenters locally), it would do us good. so....
Who's up for the challenge?
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Billy <billyx5@gmail.com <mailto:billyx5@gmail.com>> wrote:
Interestingly, MCSK actually doesn't care about international stuff (music, movies, videos) just local. Walk into any of those stalls where they burn music, movies, videos, games etc they'll tell you the same.
-Billy
2010/10/21 m mugo <mugo2of3@gmail.com <mailto:mugo2of3@gmail.com>>
I agree, local torrents would be a very good idea. It's about time that we stopped being just consumers media emanating form ideas designed by internet users to help all around the world, and contribute something.
And one of the reasons that websites like mashada.com <http://mashada.com> and nationmedia.co.ke <http://nationmedia.co.ke> are so popular is that the users can access local content easily.
However, challenges come to mind such as sharing of local media files being illegal (read MCSK, etc)
And for us that are on torrents sites a lot of time, let's make sure that we seed.
My thoughts, Mugo
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:20 PM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com <mailto:arebacollins@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello skunks, I have been toying with this idea and would like someone to tell me if it indeed is true and makes sense.
Most people nowadays are downloading a lot of stuff on torrents, as a result, there is plenty of chunks around . Popular torrents thus have a lot more chunks locally. Now im wondering, if there was a local torrents database, and local trackers, would that ensure popular files locally would be accessed faster ?