Akiba-Online Tracker [down]

[chompy]

When creating and uploading torrents to the forum, you can now make use of the torrent announce URL: http://www.akiba-online.com:2710/announce

[Law240]

So cool just added the tracker to all my current torrents Thanks

[desioner]

Yea! This is great I'll give it a go soon.
desioner

[Kotonoha]

You sir are adding to the overpopulation of the world by torrent trackers. :p

*gets out a shotgun and blows HF's tracker straight to hell*

Problem solved. :p



(Seriously, what's the point when there are plenty already. <_< >_>)

[chompy]

OK, the tracker works and is apparently tracking 11 torrents already. Doesn't seem to be affecting the server load (take that how you want)

Originally Posted by Kotonoha

Seriously, what's the point when there are plenty already. <_< >_>

Because I can. And because it took all of 20 seconds to do.
If it was hard, I wouldn't do it.

but sometimes i don't know why i bother...such ungrateful members...

[Deus Nova]

Awesome.

[handyman]

Originally Posted by chompy

but sometimes i don't know why i bother...such ungrateful members...

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Aw chompy! lol. But many of us are grateful. The glass is half full!

[guy]

Not sure if this is the right place to post, but here's some interesting news:
http://torrentfreak.com/imageshack-bitorrent-080405/

In short, you take any regular .torrent file (such as the ones posted here, deadfrog, etc) and upload it to your imageshack account. Imageshack will then download the torrent's files to its servers, and then provide you with an HTTP download link!

Limitations: 15gb storage space per account, and only 15gb of transfer monthly (per account), compared to filehosts which have only an inactivity limit. But accounts are free, and it could certainly help a lot of people who have trouble with torrents!

[indreamsiwalk]

Originally Posted by guy

Not sure if this is the right place to post, but here's some interesting news:
http://torrentfreak.com/imageshack-bitorrent-080405/

Wow. Seems like a pretty bold move. I'm guessing it's just a matter of time before they get slammed by major copyright holders.

Originally Posted by Kotonoha

Seriously, what's the point when there are plenty already. <_< >_>

I know this was posted ages ago, but I just read it for the first time and can't believe the nerve of this guy. I'm sure you know this, Chompy, but this guy's attitude does not reflect even a sizable minority of AO members. (Besides, how is more open trackers a problem for anybody? Has this guy ever even posted an original torrent to AO? Glancing through his generally arrogant posts, I don't see that he has ever contributed anything other than hot air. )

[guy]

Originally Posted by indreamsiwalk

Wow. Seems like a pretty bold move. I'm guessing it's just a matter of time before they get slammed by major copyright holders.

Well, they say they will honor DCMA. So while they won't be tracking what you download, they will delete it if they receive any complaints.

In all technicality, there's nothing different about what it's doing (it's the same bittorrent protocol on the server, and the same filehost http protocol as with rapidshare, et al). So unless there's some other precedence (such as RIAA vs bittorrent, which is nonexistant), there should be no major problems.

Still, this is intended for sparing use per-account. It's not like it'll do anyone any good to post the DDL links because of the 15gb limit. So unless copyright holders give Imageshack a blacklist of copyrighted files, no one else is going to know that the files are there for downloading in the first place.