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| ====== Torrents, trackers and magnets ====== | |
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| Torrents are the most "mainstream" way to download media content. This approach is based on //torrent// files that get shared between users: users will connect, via //trackers// to other users sharing the same torrent file. The basic concept behind torrenting is that the file you want to download is not stored on any server or anywhere on a centralized place on internet but instead every person who has a copy (or a partial copy) of the file is sharing it with the others who are looking for the same file. Basically is a decentralized approach to file sharing. Each user downloading (leecher) or sharing (seeder) the file is called a //peer// and the tracker can be used to find more peers. This has quite some advantages like: | Torrents are the most "mainstream" way to download media content. This approach is based on //torrent// files that get shared between users: users will connect, via //trackers// to other users sharing the same torrent file. The basic concept behind torrenting is that the file you want to download is not stored on any server or anywhere on a centralized place on internet but instead every person who has a copy (or a partial copy) of the file is sharing it with the others who are looking for the same file. Basically is a decentralized approach to file sharing. Each user downloading (leecher) or sharing (seeder) the file is called a //peer// and the tracker can be used to find more peers. This has quite some advantages like: |
| * While it's possible to kill "public" trackers (but it has proven pretty difficult over the years) it's hard to do the same with private trackers | * While it's possible to kill "public" trackers (but it has proven pretty difficult over the years) it's hard to do the same with private trackers |
| * Due to different laws and regulations, it might very well perfectly legal for you to torrent in many countries. But i am not a layer (and not YOUR lawyer) so YMMV. | * Due to different laws and regulations, it might very well perfectly legal for you to torrent in many countries. But i am not a layer (and not YOUR lawyer) so YMMV. |
| | * Torrents are great at locating niche stuff and less mainstream |
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| Torrents also have some disadvantages: | Torrents also have some disadvantages: |
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| The choices are: | The choices are: |
| * Deluge: great daemon-based downloader with a not-so-great web UI | * [[services:deluge|Deluge]]: great daemon-based downloader with a not-so-great web UI |
| * Transmission: great daemon-based downloader with great web UI | * [[services:transmission|Transmission]]: great daemon-based downloader with great web UI |
| * qBitTorrent: preferred by many, but it requires Qt to be installed, which i don't want on a server, so it will not taken into consideration. | * [[https://www.qbittorrent.org/|qBitTorrent]]: preferred by many, but it requires Qt to be installed, which i don't want on a server, so it will not taken into consideration. |
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| The next pages will get into more details about them. | |
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