Showing seeders and leechers for BT downloads

[forkfromouterspace]

I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but are there any plans for showing the number of seeders and leechers for the bittorrent downloads of shows? I generally prefer downloading larger files through bittorrent, and I'm sure it would save Revision3 money in bandwidth costs. I'm not sure you'd integrate it into the site's current interface (maybe in the tooltip/alt text for the bittorrent icon?), but I think it would definitely encourage more people to go with the Bittorrent option rather than HTTP.

Originally Posted by ForkFromOuterSpace

I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but are there any plans for showing the number of seeders and leechers for the bittorrent downloads of shows? I generally prefer downloading larger files through bittorrent, and I'm sure it would save Revision3 money in bandwidth costs. I'm not sure you'd integrate it into the site's current interface (maybe in the tooltip/alt text for the bittorrent icon?), but I think it would definitely encourage more people to go with the Bittorrent option rather than HTTP.

Our bittorrent service has been down for about 6 months now. You're best served to download directly from our CDN. Need more details? Go here.

-chuckles-

[masherscf]

Advertising fees more than cover the cost of bandwidth from a direct download. Unaccountable downloading from a third party via bit-torrent actually removes revenue from Revision3. Encouraging this behavior is not recommended.

[darknessgp]

Originally Posted by masherscf

Advertising fees more than cover the cost of bandwidth from a direct download. Unaccountable downloading from a third party via bit-torrent actually removes revenue from Revision3. Encouraging this behavior is not recommended.

Who says it is unaccountable? You just count when someone goes from leecher to seeder (are you forgetting that Rev3 hosted their own tracker?)... in anycase, bittorrent service has been down awhile. Not to mention, IMO, they have more than enough bandwidth to feed whatever pipe you've got through their own site, i.e. you won't get faster downloads via bittorrent nor are you helping them save much money (as I'm sure they buy their bandwidth in mass bulks, 1 GB less isn't much of a difference)

[masherscf]

Originally Posted by darknessgp

Who says it is unaccountable?

"Unaccountable" qualifies the statement. I'm not sure the statement is true without the "unaccountable." I don't think Revision3 either hosts nor tracks torrent right now. So, any torrents right now not accounted for.

[darknessgp]

Originally Posted by masherscf

"Unaccountable" qualifies the statement. I'm not sure the statement is true without the "unaccountable." I don't think Revision3 either hosts nor tracks torrent right now. So, any torrents right now not accounted for.

ah, you are referring to ANY torrent. I was referring only to the torrent tracker that Rev3 hosted itself.

[travislopes]

Originally Posted by chuckles

Our bittorrent service has been down for about 6 months now. You're be best served to download it from directly from our CDN. Need more details? Go here.

-chuckles-

Just curious... if it's down, then why do you guys still provide torrent links with each episode?

[masherscf]

Originally Posted by darknessgp

ah, you are referring to ANY torrent. I was referring only to the torrent tracker that Rev3 hosted itself.

I was only referring to those torrents that Rev3 couldn't account for. That specifically excludes torrents they track. Which, at this time, is none.

[alaskalonewolf]

I think that the selection is still put on each entry
as a matter of the way in which their forms are still
formatted with the new site design, they add content
by basically filling in the 'blanks' in the hopes that later
when the torrent issue is resolved the "fix" with be one
that's global and retroactive on every page. If they were
to say, omit that option, they'd have to go back to each
occurance and change it back when the torrents came
back on-line. I imagine that there is some legal end to
all of this though, since they were viciously attacked by
a group of people who really, really, needed to be sued.

[skyz]

Originally Posted by AlaskaLoneWolf

I think that the selection is still put on each entry
as a matter of the way in which their forms are still
formatted with the new site design, they add content
by basically filling in the 'blanks' in the hopes that later
when the torrent issue is resolved the "fix" with be one
that's global and retroactive on every page. If they were
to say, omit that option, they'd have to go back to each
occurance and change it back when the torrents came
back on-line. I imagine that there is some legal end to
all of this though, since they were viciously attacked by
a group of people who really, really, needed to be sued.

suing is not that easy even if you are in the right

it takes time and $

i think that rev3 decided their time and $ was better spent moving forward

that group is going to hang themelves anyway if they have not already