Host your video for free? Share on Gnutella2

afree87 · Post by **afree87** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 2:57 pm

While we're waiting for the Golden Donut, I'd like to direct yours attention to an interesting website I found.

http://www.anenga.com/shareaza/website/

It describes an easy process to allow anyone to distribute their AMVs without having to find hosting somewhere. I already tried this with my newest AMV, try it out:

http://animemusicvideos.org/members/mem ... php?v=6132

Do you think this could work out?

Synthangel · Post by **Synthangel** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 4:54 pm

BitTorrent anyone?

afree87 · Post by **afree87** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 6:47 pm

BitTorrent requires:

1) One person to be constantly sharing using some server software
2) A bunch of other people to be constantly downloading

I don't see either in the future for my AMVs.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 7:12 pm

afree87 wrote:BitTorrent requires:

1) One person to be constantly sharing using some server software
2) A bunch of other people to be constantly downloading

I don't see either in the future for my AMVs.

Aww yes, but so does P2P networks, including Gnutella2. All it does is make a hash ID of the file, then setups up internet explorer to accept special magnet links. You copy the the magnet link from Gnutella2, then add it to your website. When someone clicks on it, it launches Gnutella2 & gives it the hashID. Then Gnutella2 starts searching the network for the file.

This has been implemented in other programs as well. I believe the first to use it was eDonnkey. It has been sort of hacked into Kazaa what with Sid2Dat.

This isn't really anything new. It still requires that you be on atleast long enough to share the file out to someone else. If no one else is sharing your AMV, the persons download will stall until someone has it. The upside is that most P2P users leave their clients running then they would a BitTorrent. So that may help out.

I was able to download one of my AMVs off Kazaa recently, my first one. It took like a week of off and on downloading to get it, since not many people had it and it was going around 1.3KB/sec -_-.

P2P still isn't a great place to distro your AMVs, unless they're insanley popular. AMVs vs latest DVD rips or warez'd games -_- the games and movies are going to win out.

Also Gnutella2 has <a hrer="http://slyck.com/news.php?story=99">pissed off alot of the developers of the original Gnutella network clients</a>. Since he actually was not ALLOWED to use the Gnutella2 and Genutella2 has very little relation to the original Genutella.

Still the best method for distro is a actual ALWAYS-ON 24/7 web/ftp server

~klinky

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 7:18 pm

-_-

ugh, pardon the crappy post there >_<

afree87 · Post by **afree87** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 10:22 pm

klinky wrote:This has been implemented in other programs as well...

I was able to download one of my AMVs off Kazaa recently, my first one. It took like a week of off and on....

Also Gnutella2....

Umm... everything you said was actually discussed on the website I linked to

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 10:59 pm

I summerized it. I also stated that Gnutella2 is not the only one to have done this, it has been done before. The conclusion to my comments is >_> that it doesn't work. Your file must still be popular for people to be able to download it at a reasonable rate, or at all.

~klinky