How viable would some network of torrents be?
Putting the obvious problems that torrents have aside, we would have 2 options:
1. A "complete" torrent that gets "updated" (there are BEP39&46 to update a torrent, but nobody actually uses them) which means we would need to reupload a new torrent and reseed it.
OR
2. We scatter everything into batches / terms / releases (whatever you wanna call them) and release each one as a torrent.
now, option 1 sucks for people that already have the stuff they want, sure they can manually uncheck all the old stuff, but it's kinda impractical to do so, and ironically enough, if nobody or just a handfull of people with bamboo internet are there to seed, you're gonna have a bad time.
Option 2 has the inverse, as you want everything but need like 420 singular different torrents to do so.
Additionally, there are people with really niche fetishes (FACT), and the chance, that someone seeds the (just an example) tentacle sfm furry reverse r*pe femdom guro stuff, that someone wants, is really effing low for some things, like the afformentioned. meaning some people have it, but they dont seed it (anymore or never) which makes it "dead" by that regard.
Also where do you intend to "store" all the torrent files, and index them ? Becasue we need to know what each file is for, since we can't just create a like 30 terrabyte (would be even more tbh) torrent, with all content !? (i really like the sound of that idea just for the fun of doing it, but i thinks it's impractical as hell...)
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now look at a server.
Pros:
- "100%" uptime, and the stuff (even the super niche one) stays available, as long as the website /server does
- People with decent speeds, arent held back by the bad connection of others. (no offense, i only have a "ok" connection myself)
- we can easily update everything, add a simple search function, add tags to creators, and also have the option to "show similar creators" that might show you your next favourite creator, that you dont even know yet.
and also, if we get into legal trouble with a server, we could just turn it into either tor only, or just unlist it (effectively putting it in the "darkweb")
Cons:
- Website saves data, like: IP, DNS etc. etc. etc.
- Cloudflare runs 100% stable all the time and has a 100% uptime (not)
- might get region blocked, juts like nhentai did in france
- has running costs (unless we find someone with his/her own server)
Pick your posion.