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"1. Torrents are good, but in my experience newsgroups are waaaay faster. Especially when you use a program like newsleecher. Then all I have to do is post the .nzb for other members on my site."
i've seen other mention such things but i'm totally ignorant of the newsgroups. i may have to do some searching around for documentation. newleeacher huh? i'll check it out.
"2. Torrent sites are getting shut down left and right. While I don't mind hosting a few .torrent files on my site, making it a tracker just puts me out there to be shut down."
i know what you're saying. a couple of days ago i tried to go to a popular bittorrent site and got a message saying the site had been closed for legal reasons. there's a martial arts tracker that keeps changing it's URL and would notify me by email but i got bored of keeping track of where he was. but early on we were told bittorrent wasn't intended for anonymous p2p so it's no surprise i guess. azureus has a distributed tracker built in but i haven't really kept up on how well it works.
"I like helping the scene, but not at the cost of hundreds of dollars a month in server costs."
i pay for my home broadband connection and USD $20 / month to my site host and that's it. my goal is to never pay more but i'll probably fail.
"Do think it would be neat to see someone develop something though."
i second that! something in module form that could support a couple transfer protocols would be freakin' awesome. if somebody gets working on one i'll play cheerleader and beta test np.