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On Thursday 05 March 2009 14:26, Ralph Smithen wrote: > 2009/3/5 <jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Alan Pope writes:> On 04/03/2009, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> It's possible that they were overwhelmed with the amount of downloads > >>> that they have decided to make it into a torrent thus saving them > >>> bandwidth. > >> > >> It was always a torrent, it was never an http download. > >> They did the same for their tuxradar podcast. > >> Makes total sense for an audience of geeks who "get" what bittorrent > >> is about - given a lot of them use it to get their ISO in the first > >> place. > >> Their tracker will probably have more accurate stats on how many > >> downloads / how much bandwidth was used, and they may well use that > >> information for further promotion. > >> Cheers, > >> Al. > > > > I never really got my head around bit-torrents. I downloaded the torrent > > file does that now mean that because the link to the mag isn't there any > > more I can't get a copy? > > Cheers, JOn > > I just checked and the tracker is still up: > http://www.linuxformat.co.uk:6969 > > That means that, provided you have the .torrent file, you can still > download the file :) > > Here's an article explaining how it works: > http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bittorrent.htm From the above article: "This process makes popular and very large files, such as videos and television programs, download much faster than is possible with other protocols." This is a bit of a lie - I've always found torrent very slow - however it does mean the person hosting or publishing whatever is torrented doesn't have to choke or get hammered. I gave up torrenting after I discovered I was sending 5..30 * what I was receiving and using 0.5meg ADSL thats a real killer. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html