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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2017-02-24 7:59 GMT+01:00 Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 11:50:59AM -0500, Mark Roszko wrote:
>
>> > I have no issue with that but there is no way for KiCad to control
>> > what is uploaded to a torrent so I really don't want the project to be
>> > responsible for it
>>
>> The torrent could be autogenerated by the download server when the
>> files are transferred over, the download server would act as the
>> initial seed server. The torrent once created could be shared on the
>> website and then thats it. The contents of the torrent cannot change
>> without it being a completely different hash and thus invalid for the
>> torrent.
>
> Agree.
> Actually using torrent is _more_ secure than downloading via ftp or http.
>

Given that you got the correct torrent or magnet link in the first place.

> Said with different words, having "official" torrents is just like having a
> download with md5 integrated that assure the validity of what you download.
> I usually use official torrents download for:
>
> * Libreoffice
> * GIMP
> * Ubuntu Linux
> ...
>
>>
>> >Does our website not have enough bandwidth for downloading KiCad packages?
>>
>> Actually simultaneous downloads from multiple users do seem to slow it
>> down quite a tad bit. It's not like the files are hosted on a CDN like
>> other projects may have or even github.
>>
>> The theory with torrents is the download server would consume the
>> same bandwidth during initial seed but then others could then "donate"
>> their bandwidth afterwards to continue sharing (the initial seed is
>> still there too).
>>
>
> Torrents is like having a auto download balancer that uses the bandwidth
> of other clients instead of saturating the servers download bandwidth.
>
>> Not advocating for this but just throwing my two cents in
>
> Well, if you ask me, in my humble opinion (not having set any any torrent
> seed in my life) setting up torrent seeds for main kicad downloads could
> be a worthwhile job.
>
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