Torrenting - Is the end getting closer ?

[Quarterquack]

Friend status is possibly the only reason topsites end up dying. Idiots leave their friends who are security risks on the topsites. Connections, members of groups that died, they all shouldn't be there. And yet they are, they get exposed because they don't hide themselves well, and the whole site topples over.

And Im talking about topsites with top affils, who do you think pays for the best topsites out there? Torrenting communities. For example when TV-Land died, everything came down to a halt. When Loop died, same thing happened. Actually, EVERYONE noticed it when Loop died. The season finale of Dexter wasn't anywhere for a good 4 hours, because not many other topsites had enough affils/racers to get it around as it does, normally.

EDIT: You actually think a topsite that has a 120TB repository is paid for and maintained by the affils on it? Nearly the whole scene is P2P affiliated, and if you're going to be a hypocrite and say I'm wrong, ask yourself what YOU are doing here.

[A]

The problem is, bittorrent, according to recent statistics, could account for upto 55% of all INTERNET TRAFFIC

Yea right,in that about 5% is the real traffic,rest are buffers which no one use.Seriously does anyone use the SCC packs apart from making buffer?

Newsgroups? Expensive crap. I mean, no offense, I understand some people's fascination with it, but if you're going to pay to file SHARE,

Pay 11$ and get everything you want or pay 40$ for a decent seedbox for a month and keep all the private trackers alive which you use less than 10% of the actual buffer you make.
Also the old torrents which are dead.Newsgroups or Rapidshare has no such problem.
Have you ever bought a seedbox to buffer you accounts? Have you ever Donated to a site to immune yourself from inactivity,or for getting invites or for getting buffers?Then you are paying to leech.

[soulreaper]

I think the more important question is that if BT does end,what protocol would replace it? But to answer the question ,I don't think it'll end unless ISPs all over the world clamp down on torrenting.

[Eargasm]

I like all the specialty BT sites, back in the days of FTP and Newsgroups you couldn't depend on the quality and quantity of weird shit. Now it's abundant. Plus browsing various media is easier via BT sites... sometimes I just wanna find a new movie, that is +action +comedy from year 2010 that has more than 300 seeders, or something like that.

[Quarterquack]

Yea right,in that about 5% is the real traffic,rest are buffers which no one use.Seriously does anyone use the SCC packs apart from making buffer?

Newsgroups? Expensive crap. I mean, no offense, I understand some people's fascination with it, but if you're going to pay to file SHARE,

Pay 11$ and get everything you want or pay 40$ for a decent seedbox for a month and keep all the private trackers alive which you use less than 10% of the actual buffer you make.
Also the old torrents which are dead.Newsgroups or Rapidshare has no such problem.
Have you ever bought a seedbox to buffer you accounts? Have you ever Donated to a site to immune yourself from inactivity,or for getting invites or for getting buffers?Then you are paying to leech.

Valid points, however allow me to disagree. Yes, I do use the SCC packs whether you believe me or not. I have the alias S01-S05 pack bookmarked, and I've been unable to find such a pack anywhere else. I'm waiting to download it once I free up some hard drive space. So to answer your questions, SCC's archive section is freeleech which means that besides building a buffer, it's a great repository for full seasons etc. For example, I don't waste my time watching seasons of shows, I wait for the show to end, then download the full season and watch it through on a fun weekend. I've known a lot of people that do the same. SCC is a great resource for that, and due to its pretimes it's also usually one of the first to have that kind of pack up, while other trackers are still trying to put up the last episode on the tracker first.

Let me reiterate about torrents. They are optionally free. No one really forces anyone to pay for torrenting. Not unless you're on some pseudo-topsite wannabe tracker. There are people out there who have never spent a dime on torrenting, and yet are ratio immune on even the highest quality/most difficult to seed trackers because they're VIPs, with nothing but community involvement to warrant their position.

I don't donate because I want invites, heck, I'm perfectly happy never inviting a single soul to any tracker. I donate because I enjoy my time on a tracker, and am appreciative of what they are doing/risking. Most of the time, I end up asking the tracker staff to strip me of any extra features that I get.

Now let me also explain why I feel my donations are due. Where else but on BitMe could I find a torrent that encompasses four years' worth of Law School notes? Where else but on HDBits could I find (when they start) the complete winter olympics capped in HDTV, for when I can't do it myself?

If you think "leeching" from the Scene is the only thing possible through trackers, then you will remain stuck on the fact that you're paying for it. Genuinely, some of the material found on private trackers is never found anywhere else, and I'm perfectly content feeling that I've "paid" in return for the favor of hosting the data.

[soulreaper]

Let me reiterate about torrents. They are optionally free. No one really forces anyone to pay for torrenting. Not unless you're on some pseudo-topsite wannabe tracker. There are people out there who have never spent a dime on torrenting, and yet are ratio immune on even the highest quality/most difficult to seed trackers because they're VIPs, with nothing but community involvement to warrant their position.

If you think "leeching" from the Scene is the only thing possible through trackers, then you will remain stuck on the fact that you're paying for it. Genuinely, some of the material found on private trackers is never found anywhere else, and I'm perfectly content feeling that I've "paid" in return for the favor of hosting the data.

Completely echoed my thoughts there. Thx

[Tokeman]

Pay 11$ and get everything you want or pay 40$ for a decent seedbox for a month and keep all the private trackers alive which you use less than 10% of the actual buffer you make.
Also the old torrents which are dead.Newsgroups or Rapidshare has no such problem.
Have you ever bought a seedbox to buffer you accounts? Have you ever Donated to a site to immune yourself from inactivity,or for getting invites or for getting buffers?Then you are paying to leech.

I've personally never paid for a seedbox, or donated to a tracker. Newsgroups also have retention, meaning after a period of time, guess what, no file, so the problem does exist on newsgroups. I dont even want to get into rapidshare and their limits. Torrents exist as long as there are seeders, and there are plenty of files over a year old at most my trackers, many still well seeded.

[pnmgomes]

Last year we suddenly all received the news of large sites and important source of our information suddenly closed. Over the years, the fight against sharing/BT in world got stronger and more aggressive, so what does that mean? Are we approaching the end of an era Torrents? What do you think?

Yep ... everything including BT will end December 21st, 2012

[SMB]

private sharing may just come back into the picture. simple file sharing solutions like zapr(www.zapr.com).. etc.

[kostnkost]

I can't see newsgroups taking over as the next platform for downloads. I probably represent the average user out there. I do not know everything, but know enough to get by and download what I need. I believe this is why Napster did so well back in my days and is why Torrents do well as well. Ease of use.

I do not see torrenting ending so soon.