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2009/3/5 <jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Alan Pope writes:> On 04/03/2009, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> It's possible that they were overwhelmed with the amount of downloads >>> that they have decided to make it into a torrent thus saving them bandwidth. >> It was always a torrent, it was never an http download. >> They did the same for their tuxradar podcast. >> Makes total sense for an audience of geeks who "get" what bittorrent >> is about - given a lot of them use it to get their ISO in the first >> place. >> Their tracker will probably have more accurate stats on how many >> downloads / how much bandwidth was used, and they may well use that >> information for further promotion. >> Cheers, >> Al. > I never really got my head around bit-torrents. I downloaded the torrent > file does that now mean that because the link to the mag isn't there any > more I can't get a copy? > Cheers, JOn > I just checked and the tracker is still up: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk:6969 That means that, provided you have the .torrent file, you can still download the file :) Here's an article explaining how it works: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bittorrent.htm -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html