LEGAL Torrenting Question

[hech54]

Non-copyrighted material!!!!!
Is it possible to create a torrent from material already uploaded to Rapidshare?

[Noahtuck]

If you mean torrent it from rapidshare, no.
You would have to have it on your pc, create the torrent for the tracker you want to use, then upload the torrent to that tracker.
You need to host the file/s you are torrenting on your pc for people to get them from you.

Otherwise just send out the link to rapidshare 8)

[hech54]

That sucks.

[Noahtuck]

Let me clarify a bit..... Once a few people have it in the swarm you can drop out and then everyone else will keep it going so you really only need to seed it for a couple of people, as long as everyone else keep's it going.

[hech54]

I was just under the impression that people use RAR files, in pieces...to defeat the 100MB upload limit of Rapidshare in order to create torrents...know what I mean?
Almost every torrent I've looked at says "also available as a direct download at VVV.rapidshare.somethingsomething"...I was assuming that they were doing what I am attempting....NOT to leave my antique computer with a shitty connection on 24/7.

[Midzuki]

hech54 wrote:

I was just under the impression that people use RAR files, in pieces...to defeat the 100MB
upload limit of Rapidshare in order to create torrents...know what I mean?

Actually the multi-part file splitting was born on Usenet, @ the *.binaries newsgroups.

[loster]

actually it was born in the bbs days iirc because of very limited bandwidth

[Midzuki]

Thanks for correcting me

[jollyjohn]

No need to have the PC on 24 x 7 Just turn it on when you use it and the files become available for DL. Then.

[Conquest10]

I was just under the impression that people use RAR files, in pieces...to defeat the 100MB upload limit of Rapidshare in order to create torrents...know what I mean?
Almost every torrent I've looked at says "also available as a direct download at VVV.rapidshare.somethingsomething"...I was assuming that they were doing what I am attempting....NOT to leave my antique computer with a shitty connection on 24/7.

What they are doing it splitting the file up to many smaller files in order to get around the limit. But if you prefer to download it all in one file, there's the torrent which will require you to depend on others having it and seeding.