jaspd.blogg.se - Audiobook torrenting sites

Any book seeded is tremendous promotion for Librivox if uploaded to a bunch of torrentsites.īitTorrents are a little different from other file sharing tools. They might not even be browsing for audio books intently but rather getting a newsfeed of new torrent-files and suddenly they come across Frankenstein, or A Connecticut Yankee, or another LibriVox book, in their newsfeed and think: "oh great - let's download that!" Through torrents, our audio books are put in another place for people to find them. This is just another place people can find LibriVox books, even if they have never heard of us before.

Vast numbers of people are browsing torrent-lists all over the Web for new things they might like - Music, books, movies. Sharing information, data, and unused bandwidth for good, just like - and we like that. And importantly, BitTorrents work because people believe in sharing. Torrents are simply another download-alternative we can use.

If too many people download from at the same time, speed slows down.

From some places (Germany) for instance, that's an awfully slow connection.

No matter where in the world you are, you have to connect to this certain server.

Thousands of people are downloading our large files from, because they heard of us from friends, the news, or buzz. We get conveniently manageable server space and unlimited bandwidth for free - they get our good content and traffic. LibriVox primarily publishes our files on. Why is BitTorrent important for us? Our conventional method Files in BitTorrent are offered as so called "Torrents". And when the file you wanted is finished you keep sending it to others (until you decide to stop seeding). As a peer/downloader you receive and send many small pieces of the file, until it's finished. Still sharing the file after you've finished downloading is called "seeding" (and is considered good manners!). Someone with a completed download, who makes that file available is called a "Seed". When you are downloading something, you are called a "Peer". This way everybody's upload-capacity is used in the process, which is wasted in standard HTML or FTP-downloads.

So you end up downloading "bits" of the file from whoever has some free upload capacity at any given time. We are able to publish the audio books from our homes, from your and my PC, without major bandwidth demands.īitTorrents connect you to the one server where the file you want is hosted, but it ALSO connects you to all the people who are downloading the file at same moment, and to those who have already finished the file too. It gives us the opportunity to offer our audio books by ourselves - independently - in addition to publishing them with a centralized server like.

4.3 The Awesomeness! And download numbersīitTorrent is a file sharing technique that allows us to distribute large files to a great number of people.

2.2 Disadvantages to conventional methods.