On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:57:33PM -0500, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > > State-Changed-By: gjb > > State-Changed-When: Wed Dec 5 20:32:01 UTC 2012 > > State-Changed-Why: > > Removed torrents.FreeBSD.org in r40278. > > That's a shame. > > It was used by how many hundreds or thousands of people. It is popular > enough that multiple people reported the outage despite there not being > an obvious place to do it. People are _still_ using BT to download FreeBSD > this very minute: > > ID Done Have ETA Up Down Ratio Status Name > 96 100% 1.18 GB Done 9.0 0.0 3.57 Seeding > FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc-all > 197 100% 4.11 GB Done 4.0 0.0 5.07 Seeding > 8.1-RELEASE-i386-all > 231 100% 4.23 GB Done 24.0 0.0 12.0 Seeding > FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-all > 304 100% 2.24 GB Done 16.0 0.0 45.7 Seeding > FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1 > > It makes it easier for people with flakey net connections to still do > reliable downloads of FreeBSD. Some of these people are here in the US, > but many are all around the world. Heck, the freebsd.org client went down > I forget how many months ago but one or two people tended to keep 200+ old > release torrents on the air. > > It allows people to donate bandwidth to the project while still allowing > FreeBSD to vouch for the authenticity of the downloaded files. And having > a tracker inside freebsd.org means it is easier to defend against charges > of piracy since there were never any files on that tracker that shouldn't > have been there. > > Personally, I hate to see it go.
It is not something I can control, unfortunately. Personally, I would not download sources that are not directly provided by the Project however. I removed the link from the website. I did not take down the service. Glen
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