I know we can’t do this with any copyrighted materials. But a lot of books, music, art, knowledge is in the creative commons. Is it possible to create one massive torrent that includes all that can be legally included and then have people only download what they actually want to enjoy?
I mean… That pretty much describes torrents period… What is the functional difference between hosting a single torrent with everything, and hosting a torrent per item?
If the expectation is that you only include files you want when downloading the torrent, you’re only going to be seeding that portion.
Seems like it would just make the search function harder, and make it harder to determine the “health” of individual items…
I don’t understand the benefit…
For example zlibrary is 220TB of books and scientific articles, that included in the torrent would be great along with all the stuff that is arts and music.
Basically it would be a way to combat media vanishing off of the net over time. Basically a noah’s arche for all of mankinds knowledge.
It would be great to have everything in one single spot to make it easier to contribute and get stuff. We’d also be more easily capable of combining our forces to maintain/create the thing.
That makes a great focal point for what I was saying actually ;)
It’s 220TB, so youll have incredibly few people who download the whole torrent. Most will open the torrent list and select a small number of items from it to download. The files selected the most will get seeded frequently, the ones that never get selected by anyone will have only the originator seeding it (if they continue to do so).
It’s functionally no different than if each individual file is a torrent… Except that the seeding info is going to be wonky on the single 220TB torrent because nobody is downloading it intact, only in pieces.
It’s also much easier to find a specific file if it is it’s own torrent vs. one of a billion files in a single mega torrent.
Just because you put it on an index in a torrent doesn’t mean the file still exists somewhere. That media can still vanish…
What would do what you’re suggesting this torrent would do (which a torrent cannot actually do) is a Yottabyte capable computer somewhere storing all those files… You’d need that to keep the seeding intact for the whole torrent…
Maybe one could tweak BitTorrent for this one mega torrent so that you have to seed/leech one of the least popular files along with every popular file?