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What does one do if a torrent is completely inactive?

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b11_

Flightless Bird
What does one do if a torrent is completely inactive?
 
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Mobius

Flightless Bird
"b11_" <b11@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> What does one do if a torrent is completely inactive?


The FBI has generally been known to help in such situations.
http://www.fbi.gov/contactus.htm
HTH.
:)
Mobius
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Nil

Flightless Bird
On 29 May 2010, =?Utf-8?B?YjExXw==?= <b11@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

> What does one do if a torrent is completely inactive?

Partially activate it.
 
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milt

Flightless Bird
On 5/29/2010 2:37 PM, Mobius wrote:
> "b11_"<b11@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FFFA9C00-1457-4968-93E6-59BA418CD525@microsoft.com...
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>> What does one do if a torrent is completely inactive?
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>
> The FBI has generally been known to help in such situations.
> http://www.fbi.gov/contactus.htm
> HTH.
> :)
> Mobius
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Now now... just because its a torrent does NOT mean its a pirated file.
There are torrents of freeware/shareware programs, music, videos etc...
torrent <> illegal.
 
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Twayne

Flightless Bird
In news:FFFA9C00-1457-4968-93E6-59BA418CD525@microsoft.com,
b11_ <b11@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
> What does one do if a torrent is completely inactive?

Go for it. Then you'll help others that want the same thing.
 
B

b11_

Flightless Bird
So far, not one straight answer!
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"b11_" wrote:

> What does one do if a torrent is completely inactive?
 
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Nil

Flightless Bird
On 22 Jul 2010, =?Utf-8?B?YjExXw==?= <b11@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

> So far, not one straight answer!

Ask a vague, nonsensical question and you are sure to get vague,
nonsensical answers.
 
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ju.c

Flightless Bird
Wait.
Seeders can't keep their torrents active all the time, but they
will watch for peers and start the torrent when the see one.

Or search for another torrent. A new torrent may have replaced
the one that you got.


ju.c


"b11_" <b11@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BE7A42D5-5685-4562-BCD6-B535AE708B9C@microsoft.com...
> So far, not one straight answer!
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> "b11_" wrote:
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>> What does one do if a torrent is completely inactive?
 
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Paul

Flightless Bird
b11_ wrote:
> So far, not one straight answer!
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> "b11_" wrote:
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>> What does one do if a torrent is completely inactive?

At least some of the torrent tools, will have their own
web forum, where you'll find people who do nothing but
torrent. A "general" group like this one, isn't likely
to know all the answers to questions you've got.

*******

Perhaps a few academic papers, will uncover the
weaknesses in Torrent.

http://cis.poly.edu/~ross/papers/SeedAttack.pdf

http://www.raimcomputing.com/temp/freenix-paper.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)

"Content unavailability

Although swarming scales well to tolerate flash crowds for
popular content, it is less useful for unpopular content.
Peers arriving after the initial rush might find the content
unavailable and need to wait for the arrival of a seed in order
to complete their downloads. The seed arrival, in turn, may
take long to happen, since maintaining seeds for unpopular
content entails high bandwidth and administrative costs, which
runs counter to the goals of publishers that value BitTorrent
as a cheap alternative to a client-server approach."

*******

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=7046

"Currently, a slow torrent slips from Active to Inactive status
when the total speed drops below 1 kB/s and is thus moved from
the Active window to the Inactive window at that point.

I'd like to suggest that this should happen only after the total
speed drops to zero and stays at zero for something like a minute
or two. Then, I'd say it's really Inactive. A torrent with
one slow seeder hovering around 1 kB/s is not completely inactive,
is it?"

Different clients then, could define that state in a different way.

http://guides.radified.com/magoo/guides/bittorrent/bittorrent_05.html

"Inactive torrent

The most common reason for having trouble downloading a file is an
inactive torrent. If the torrent is old or unpopular, there may not be
enough other people downloading the file for you to get it quickly.
Try at a different time of day or find a different torrent."

HTH,
Paul
 
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pjp

Flightless Bird
Delete the torrent, find another, no-one's seeding is my take on it.

Do it all the time.

"b11_" <b11@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> So far, not one straight answer!
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> "b11_" wrote:
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>> What does one do if a torrent is completely inactive?
 
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b11_

Flightless Bird
A virtual gold star and a thanks to those that posted a straight answer.
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"b11_" wrote:

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