Thread: Need help to start torrent website

Spare me this kind of talk... I just need informative stuff here.
I dont seek personal point of view of my idea.

It is possible, yes, but ultimately your idea will fail because your content can be easily downloaded for free from dozens of other sites.

Originally Posted by Maleficare

It is possible, yes, but ultimately your idea will fail because your content can be easily downloaded for free from dozens of other sites.

Sorry if I didnt seem friendly in my previous post, my main language aint english. I dont think this will fail because I actually posses rare anime file that can be hardly found at high speed. Some of them took me some weeks even months to get! I also did some file cutting and some modifying that I think user will find interest in.

could you refer me a good torrent server application I could use?

I know already torrentflux but I'm wondering if there's better alternative!

thank you,
mathieuasw

Originally Posted by mathieuasw

So the question I am asking myself are the following :

1. Is this even possible?
2. Will I need to make multiple torrent for each file to be able to realize this?
3. Public or private tracker?

Even if it's possible, I don't think it will work at all. It looks like a very cumbersome system you want to put in place. Making money out of files (DDL?) is the badest idea since it's just what copyright owners are tracking the most.

I'll add the fact that several anime oriented trackers already exist : bakaBT, AnimeBytes, MononokeBT (for french people). So compared to them, even if you have some rare material, your idea won't attract many people, too much restrictions in my opinion.

i don't think bittorrent protocol will be the best for the job..

I'm curious as to how having a password protected file will generate you profit. So the free user downloads a file, then has to download a password. Will it be like those kinds of sites were the password is behind a survey wall or just a massive amount of ads. Or will you have to pay for the password.

Also the idea that you will upload files at slower speeds on other sites and then refer people to your site so they have to pay for higher speeds is just not right. Wont the staff at those sites ban you for spamming. And experienced torrent users wont fall for this. It will smell like a scam. Specially if the files are inside a rar, because people wont be able to tell if the file is legit until they are done downloading.

This seems like to much trouble considering that the content can be found elsewhere. And no matter how rare your anime may be, unless its your own original creation I'm pretty sure other people out there could have it.

1. Is this even possible?

Yes I think it is, but it seems difficult to implement and a risky investment.

2. Will I need to make multiple torrent for each file to be able to realize this?

Yes. One will be password protected, one will be slow but no password, and one will be fast. I'm not sure how you will make a torrent slower and another one faster, it seems to me that even if your servers are slower or faster, the seeds are the ones that really determine the speed of a torrent.

3. Public or private tracker?

Maybe don't use torrents at all. Because you want to limit speed, and I feel this is difficult in a torrent, because you can't control the upload speed of the seeds and peers. Your idea seems more like the file "sharing" sites than torrent trackers.And remember file sharing websites are being attacked and taken down (like Megaupload) Thats why I mentioned this being risky. Read here 15 file-sharing sites like Megaupload that the Feds may target next | VentureBeat

I'm not an expert on torrent trackers or anything. Still I hope my opinion is helpful. I have nothing against piracy, or people trying to make money. But those 2 really don't mix together unless you want to be in big trouble. Maybe just share your content, starting your own private tracker, and if it's really that rare and good, people will donate to you money.