Proposal: retire bittorrent

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:55 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Heck, I'd be willing to accept ANY bittorrent server that can be both
> tracker and primary seed and doesn't require a special apache module to
> do it.
>
> The biggest virtue of the old bittorrent client is that it is simple,
> stand  alone and while not fancy, it is straightforward to understand.

Why not look into using Web/HTTP seeding rather than running a client
for the initial seed?  The only downsides that I know of so far:

1) Not supported in rtorrent
2) Transmission doesn't apply any bandwidth limits to Web/HTTP seeds

-- 
Jeff Ollie