Bump? Is that even allowed? But seriously - I've been a conscientious user of this site since I was a teenager and SPH is something I'd really like to see. Someone on here has to have an idea of some vids.

Like I mentioned in another thread… you might want to download high traffic torrents and allow them to seed for a while. The majority of my upload comes from very few files, even though I download many more files.

I agree with Popper, above. The minimum ratio requirements need to be further adjusted. I've uploaded 1.72TB on this site. This was only possible because I strategically downloaded torrents that I knew were in high demand… meaning that I knew as soon as they were downloaded that they would seed immediately and for a long period of time. This has frustrated me greatly, but I haven't found an alternative within the current ratio requirement framework for this site.

That's a very good point… I had never thought about the seeding not registering correctly. I guess I'll just rent a node at Amazon and seed away again

Thanks for the help!

My apologies if this question has already been answered elsewhere.

When my ratio goes low, I go on seed binges. I purchase an EC2 instance on Amazon's AWS through an anonymous company, download a bunch of highly desirable torrents and then seed the hell out of them. My ratio is getting pretty close to parity, so it's time to do this again.

Instead of spending the money to do this with Amazon through an anonymous provider, I want to try and use a proxy service like BTGuard. But I'm not sure this makes me anonymous while seeding. I understand that my downloading will be anonymous, but will my seeding? How does an incoming connection reach me if I am behind a SOCKS proxy? Does BTGuard somehow forward packets destined for their IP address to my connection? I also know that I can test my downloading IP address, but is there a way to test my upload IP?

Their help page is not working at the moment, so I thought I'd ask here. I'm a programmer, not an IT guy, so I'd rather hear an answer from someone who knows than just make assumptions.

Thanks!

Hey Pedo30,

That's exactly what I wanted to know. I hadn't thought about the DNS lookups, which is a great caveat… thanks. I think that I'll try this in a test setting and use Wireshark or something of that nature to see what I can find in the packets.

Gracias!

Thanks for the reply! Great information regarding encryption. I didn't know it worked that way for seeding.

I'm not sure I understand, though, the rest of your comment. I run a RHEL distribution on the server that I'd host the client on. I've tried looking but can't seem to find any logs which detail file names. There are destinations (IP of the incoming and outgoing connections of which none say gaytorrent.ru), dates and times but there's nothing in any of the logs that I can find which detail the file names or details about the contents. Do you know where I can find that because it's exactly the issue I'm worried about.

The only thing I want to know is: Disregarding tracker communications… what sort of information can be seen when peers talk to one another?

I can't really dedicate my home connection, either. I have a combined cap of 200GB per month for all traffic, outbound and inbound. It's $1 per gig after that, which really adds up. I already have a web front end for that purpose, anyway.

Also, for various liability reasons, the legal aspects are of no concern.

Thanks again!

Hey Fellas,

So this is a pretty tech-ky question which might be a little too advanced for this forum, but I honestly didn't know where else to turn…

I own a small business that builds computational clusters for small businesses and academic departments. I have a great internet connection and manage it myself, along with some of my employees. I want to use my connection to upload and seed the hundreds of videos I've downloaded from this site, but I'd feel weird if my employees picked up on a tracker communication between our server and the gaytorrent tracker.

So to work around this I had an idea. Could I just send all of the tracker communications (which doesn't require a ton of bandwidth) through my home computer via an SSH tunnel, but have the peers communicate directly with my work server? The tracker would be talking to my home computer at one IP address (which would forward all the packets to work) but the peers would be talking to my work sever at its IP....

Is that possible? (I think yes...) and if so, does the peer to peer communication reveal anything about the tracker? Or is it just peer to peer communication. (Which I could encrypt using RC4...)

Thanks guys!

Being Canadian, and thus a part of the Commonwealth of Nations, I was very happy to see this. I know that India, who is also a part of the organization, is taking the suggestion to heart.

You know, I don't think that the only reason gay people get married is to hold with tradition. I think that's maybe a reason for some, but more importantly I think there are a lot of gay people who are religious. A gay church in Dallas, Texas, Cathedral of Hope, paid for my college tuition, and I live in Alaska! They have enough partitioners donating money that they could afford to do that. The Metropolitan Community Church, which caters to the GLBT population, is really growing, and there are so many denominations of traditional Christianity that are now accepting us more and more, such as the Episcopalians, ELCA Lutherans, some Protestant churches, etc.

I just think it's messed up that the UK won't give it's GLBT citizens equal marriage. WTF is with that? At least it's better than in the US.