[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Aug 2 2005, 07:39 PM\'][quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Aug 2 2005, 11:29 AM\']I think speed is the problem (though you could probably link a lack of seeders to lack of speed). Takes forever to download.
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You absolutely can, as this is prezactly how BitTorrent works. Also, your download and upload speeds are tied together, so if you're grabbing a file few people are interested in, you won't be upping to anyone, and your speeds will suffer. It _can_ be decent...last night I got a 1/2 hour program in Xvid format in about 20-30 minutes. But it had a boatload of seeders and was popular. For the most part, tho, no, it's not a service for the impatient.
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I think its possible ive seeded "mrcity" episodes of The Price Is Right on a tracker for him before, when his FTP was getting hammered it and it took no time, I have only got a 30kbps upload but still I have a number of people downloading from me and spreading through the torrent swarm.
I had seeded around 80% into the swarm and one person who started was getting 800kbps so in saying that theres atleast 2 people with really high upload and downloads it could be done pretty fast.
If I had a copy of temptation I could make into DIVX Id share right now, but I dont, where I watched it was live and crap quality and now dead.
Anyone willing to make one and ill point them in the right direction, if they dont know how.
Cheers.