2013-01-27, 11:59
(2013-01-09, 17:48)Ned Scott Wrote: That's not how bittorrent works at all...
Actually yeah that pretty much IS how it works. Anyone in your torrent cloud sees the IP addresses of (most) everyone else. Seeds and downloaders alike. Next thing you know you've got people joining the streams just to get the IP of everyone else. Any public tracker ala TPB is rife with this!
Torrents also work best on large files, many small files, which these images would be, waste bandwidth with overhead. The overhead might be as much as the files themselves I'm afraid.
Some sort of P2P way to distribute data is a great way to remove burden on community sites i agree but I'm not sure that this is the right way...
How about hosting the files on usenet? It would require access to the service and takedowns, as usual, might screw with it but that could solve the issue of sharing IPs...?