-On [20031104 21:22], Josh Berkus (josh@agliodbs.com) wrote:
>I don't think we necessarily need to host a Bitorrent server at hub.org; I'm
>not clear on how joining bitorrent works, really. I'll ask one of the
>current users.
You just take an official tarball, put it in your share folder and 'seed
it' as the torrent community calls it, that is, you spread the hash on
the file for people to add to their torrent download list.
Principle is the same as with SoulSeek, KaZaA, Edonkey, etc...
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