Can you link me to the part of that article that says that somehow once you put a torrent file on your server, you can never remove it from your server?
Or were you just trying to do a gotcha without understanding what I said?
Once you put a torrent out, you don’t have control of it. The uploader does not have a kill-switch. Torrents are peer-to-peer without a central server.
Anna’s Archive bearing the server-load (“slurp up their bandwidth”, “the traffic costs will inflate dramatically”)
Lawyers demanding a centralised takedown
Both of these are based on the idea of a client-server model. Torrents don’t have that model at all. It’s
Can you link me to the part of that article that says that somehow once you put a torrent file on your server, you can never remove it from your server?
“the lack of a central server that could limit bandwidth”… “The BitTorrent protocol can be used to reduce the server and network impact of distributing large files. Rather than downloading a file from a single source server, the BitTorrent protocol allows users to join a “swarm” of hosts to upload and download from each other simultaneously”… “there is no single point of failure as in one way server-client transfers”… “publishers that value BitTorrent as a cheap alternative to a client-server approach”… “to increase availability and to reduce load on their own servers, especially when dealing with larger files”
They cannot. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent
Can you link me to the part of that article that says that somehow once you put a torrent file on your server, you can never remove it from your server?
Or were you just trying to do a gotcha without understanding what I said?
Once you put a torrent out, you don’t have control of it. The uploader does not have a kill-switch. Torrents are peer-to-peer without a central server.
Which is completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
You’ve raised –
Anna’s Archive bearing the server-load (“slurp up their bandwidth”, “the traffic costs will inflate dramatically”)
Lawyers demanding a centralised takedown
Both of these are based on the idea of a client-server model. Torrents don’t have that model at all. It’s
“the lack of a central server that could limit bandwidth”… “The BitTorrent protocol can be used to reduce the server and network impact of distributing large files. Rather than downloading a file from a single source server, the BitTorrent protocol allows users to join a “swarm” of hosts to upload and download from each other simultaneously”… “there is no single point of failure as in one way server-client transfers”… “publishers that value BitTorrent as a cheap alternative to a client-server approach”… “to increase availability and to reduce load on their own servers, especially when dealing with larger files”
Do you not understand how threads work?