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- ACrazyGerman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17From the website
"Does it work with any torrent?
txtor should work with any torrents that are publicly accessible, like stuff from isohunt, torrentspy or mininova."
Well not Torrentspy or isohunt any more :( - av4rice, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Was wondering when someone would make Demonoid's download-as-text feature more applicable universally
- tekrat, on 10/10/2007, -5/+15Call me nutty, but why not make the torrent files XML or some other text format to begin with? It would be a lot easier to create a torrent and to distribute them as well.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -27/+35Why the ***** did it take 75 diggs for this to hit the front page when ANY apple ***** story takes less than 35??
For gods sake kevin, fix the damn algorithm so it stops favoring your favorite big corporation intent on screwing its customers!
Let some actually important news hit the front page instead of all the constant Applespam! - TRUEPATRIOT, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10you realize that part of the algorithm is the speed at which a story is dugg.so this story has been dugg slowly.if anyone is preferring big companies its fellow diggers
- ComputerGeekMat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I like the idea, but it's not going to be hard for them to block this way as well. Simply blocking http://txtor.dwerg.net/ will do the trick.
Not that other sites won't come out that do the same, but this way won't work for long. - compgeek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4seems interesting but I'll agree with tekrat that making them XML in the first place would solve it
- NeMoD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3demonoid offers .txt files of the torrent
- Namco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You are nutty.
- abandonedhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3They still get blocked by my school's filter. I use TOR with the Firefox extension to get my .torrent files, then I shut it off. I also encrypt my traffic. Gives them a tiny chance of even knowing what I'm up to.
What really needs to be implemented is a SSL webserver to download the .torrent files from. That'd be the best way for me to circumvent my school's blocking. - abandonedhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2There's a reply button, you know.
- dbr_onix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Services like Relakks or SecureIX can do that. Same with SSH tunneling.
- terminalpariah, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hm, maybe someone could code an IM bot version? Send the URL of the .torrent to an AIM buddy and they start a file transfer.
- darkism, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3A Digger misusing the term "spam" ? What are the odds?
Seriously, just because you don't agree with a story or the website it points to is a blog or has ads doesn't make it spam. - kidcodea, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2still waiting for a cool way to bypass throttling traffic isps... free fast vpns where?
- battmutler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2what about private trackers? does txtor work for them?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I'm aware of that, but apple stuff can still hit the front page with 35 diggs that have been spread out over many hours. I forget the story but it was about 10 days ago that a story with
- spykemail, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Can't stop the signal.
- alphaone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Or you could dl it through an encrypted proxy. Tor and various web-based proxies come to mind here.
- Julz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Yeah... i am crazy i still use Torrentspy? i don't care what info they get on me, the fed's are not gunna come all the way over to New Zealand to arrest me lol
- Sevets, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I would say that most of the time they are using more sophisticated technology such as traffic classification. Like this: http://www.packeteer.com/
More much thorough. - mozillamonks, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2There are better alternatives.
- abhinavg90, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2umm.. tell me when they manage to get around port blocking by routers - coz thats also a part of the universities' anti-torrent and anti-file-sharing tools inventory...
- abandonedhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1And digg ate my link:
http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-encrypt-bittorrent- ...
(This one works) - dbr_onix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Nope, because the txtor site would have to be logged in to the site to get the torrent files.
- abandonedhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Wrong. RC4 encryption (available in Azureus and several other clients) encrypts the entire stream, not just the header.
http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-encrypt-bittorrent- ...
It's just encrypted traffic, and that's pretty tough to see what it really is. Granted, if I'm downloading or uploading a lot, they could make assumptions that would lead them to believe that I'm using BitTorrent. - shunuk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Dugg for Serenity reference.
- Compukid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I think it is a good idea. Not sure how well it works, but I am sure it will do what it says. On the other hand my problem is throttling. I think My ISP throttles my traffic and I will notice my torrent just stop after a while. If I reset my cable modem the torrents resume like normal.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2So the constant stream of iPhone submissions of 2.5 months ago ALL basically stating the exact same things was all generally of high quality and worthwhile content?
Of course they weren't, they were all just the same ***** repeated over and over and over, but because the algorithm is skewed in favor of ANYTHING apple we got (at times) over 1/2 the top 30 front paged stories all about the iPhone, and none of them adding anything new to what everyone already knew, but wrapped in bloggy sites filled with google adverts. I'm sorry, but even the most conservative apple apologist would have to agree that it was spam! - dbr_onix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Free VPN's are nearly always going to be slow, because being free, there's a lot of people using them, and no big incentive for the company to buy more servers/connections..
- inactive, on 01/16/2009, -0/+1hmm still works
- dbr_onix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Torrent "Encryption" really doesn't hide the fact your torrenting stuff very well, it just encrypts the packet's headers, and thats about it...
If they haven't said anything to you yet, it's probably because they don't care, not because they can't see the traffic.
As for this site, it's effectively a limited proxy - all that needs to be done is block "http://txtor.dwerg.net/" and it's useless. As stated, Tor, SSL enabled sites, or SSH tunneling etc is probably more reliable way to get .torrent files. - omitt3d, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Seems to work for any web page as well, not just torrent files. Also appears to be hosted in the Netherlands since using it to download Googles home page spits out the Netherlands version.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Of course, but when the 'rules' have been skewed to fit in with someone's illogical and twisted (I might even say sick) personal loyalty to a corporation, intent on extending its monopoly and business practices that would be universally derided if it was ANY other corporation, at the exclusion to other more important and interesting subjects then the value of those diggs means nothing if the whole system unfairly grants those diggs a higher (or lower) value than others.
- ramrod246892001, on 10/28/2009, -0/+0actually isohunt works because i use txtor for it all of the time
- monikerd, on 10/16/2007, -2/+2this is the stupidest thing i've seen in a while.
1: If they content block .torrent file on extention and mime type. pretty good chance they also block txtor, and then you'll have to move shop.
2: the admins of txtor can collect data on which torrent files are downloaded, and by which IP's -> wow wouldn't the riaa mpaa want that data.
there are enough websites, and free php services out there, just upload a .php there and download through there.
Using TXTOR is a bad imho - 3210, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Job well done to the people that developed txtor, great application for those that need it.
- Jareth86, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Blocking the extension is seldom the problem at universities. The actual routers are blocking the ports.
- Buddhist, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2I wasn't aware that many people used that anyway
- SoAnIs, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1The other part is who diggs it. Part of the algorithm is how many people have the digger as a friend. So if kevin diggs a story, it hits front page instantly, if I dig a story it's only one digg.
- .Steven, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1"Call me nutty, but why not make the torrent files XML or some other text format to begin with? It would be a lot easier to create a torrent and to distribute them as well." They are.. parts are gzipped to save space.
- queraxus, on 10/10/2007, -7/+4You need to calm the ***** down. People can digg whatever they want.
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