Topic: Can we earn bitcoin by Torrent seeding ? - page 2. (Read 9104 times)

Sooo ...
2 years after joystream was announced and they're still (afaik) using only a testnet?
coinado ran well for a year or so then shut down (no warning, or referral to newer service, afaik).

Did I miss some new service that took over from these?
wtf?

this i can believe. so the reason why they just download for free on piratebay because even if they do have the money, they won't be sending any dime, they can't even say thanks to those who upload the files after risking their freedom by uploading the files.

Seeding is basically you participating and helping other people download the video and getting paid back by others doing the same to you, I don't think there will be people ready to pay in the first place...

Nope, although it would be an interesting service if ever offered but nothing offers that, Seeding is more of a charity work since you help people "and help yourself on the long term" the problem would be who is going to pay the price if there is something like this.

That is going to depend on the contract payment that you are going to do with adobe products. There are annual and as well as monthly subscription. That is going to be the advantage of subscribing to adobe and paying their product that you are updated with their new products and features. But if you don't have enough money then you are just going to stay with the old version in the torrent but no earnings.

Seedboxes are quite in a high demand in current times where people don't want to download movies, music, games and software via their own IP address. I personally have several seedboxes that I rent out to people for $5 per month for a low spec one, and up to $10 for a much better box with more speed and disk space. You may be able to earn a nice extra bit of money per month.

I have 2 raspberry pi (model 1 and 2) and a 3tb external hard drive laying around. Since I have free electricity I want to make a donation based seedbox

Does anyone have any information about coinado?
It stopped responding sometime over a couple weeks ago (I hadn't checked for months) and now it's 'in maintenance'.
Dammit. He owes me $1.70!!!

you can hrie a programmer, and make a php scrypt web based gui, that do all the job for you, it should cost not much, maybe 0.2 btc

i've hired a programmer in the past, maybe he is still active for this kind of job, i can ask for you if you want...

I think all the new versions of the Adobe products require a monthly subscription and a connection to the cloud. I guess all the uploaded Photoshop torrents are worthless old versions but it's free.

it always happen. don't expect those Photoshop users to download a GIMP software which is free when they don't know how to use it. They get it on piratebay or KAT. and in their mind, why pay to have photoshop, they can't even afford to pay cheese burger.

I have a few dedicated server that can be used for this purpose but the problem is I do not have the script to automatically do all the things for me.

This does not make sense at all. If you cannot afford something, you do not go out to the shops and steal it. It is a criminal offense and you will be fined or jailed for that. These services are the vehicle  for criminal actions and they will be targeted by the authorities.

What will happen if everyone starts downloading copyrighted content from the internet and this industry collapse, due to financial problems? It also has a ripple affect, because legal providers of these products like Netflix or video shops have to close their doors too.

If you cannot afford it, do not steal it. ^hmmmm^ 

its possible but only few people who'd give a coin for downloading unless the site become really big like kat or tpb. they do have btc address posted on their page for donation. still i'm not sure people donate though and that is why they are downloading stuff illegally cause they can't afford.

Joystream developers have nothing to do with what content their users seed. It's the same old story... People kill people, guns don't kill people and I am yet to see any weapon maker being sued or fined because they sell weapons that feed wars. If we allow weaponary companies to operate and metal extraction for weapon creation, we must allow the Joystream team to develop their software.

When anti-piracy organizations start having their "field days" with this issue, they should direct themselves to users that misuse the application, not the developers. Just like ISP's shouldn't be sued because users use their connections to download pirated content.

Seeding a Linux distro isn't a crime. Many have official torrents. Maintaining mirrors for distros requires time and money. By outsourcing iso distribution to torrents, distro developers and mirrors are effectively saving money on bandwidth and providing users with something that might even be a faster service for downloading their software. By having paid downloads more users have an incentive to seed while the impact of charging a few bitcents to downloaders to get their distro isn't that much of a hassle (people who don't want to donate can still download through a mirror or any other slower methods).

So, in short: downloader pays a few bitcents, distributed by all seeds and downloads distro at full speed. Seeders get some compensation for their efforts. Developers do not need to deploy servers and https mirrors. Universities who donate their servers for distro downloads can start using torrents to and get some revenue and cut down on bandwidth usage.


This is something very generous, but rarely seen in torrents. People need an incentive, which isn't bad because they're doing something that comes out of their pocket. Like I've read once "seeding in a public tracker is like fucking for virginity"... And we all know seedboxes exist, and you'd have to be crazy to use them without having anything in exchange.


I wish Joystream huge success. I'd be very grateful to receive a few bitcents if someone wanted to download any distro I'm seeding. I'd probably even find a way to do it 24/7 if i got some coins out of it. I'd be very grateful and happy if Joystream caused a shift in this paradigm and a change in the way people think and see content distribution online, too.

I definitely wouldn't like to use this service and have development come to a halt just because people use the software in a way that is perceived to be wrong.


As I've said a few posts back, they're still using testnet.

Not sure about torrent seeding , but you can earn a lot of money ( well, not that much, but yes fine amount ) if you have a good internet speed, as many users demand their torrent file being converted into a simple link.

Some uploaders accept donations in bitcoins. If the torrent is of a great value to you just consider donating. You can earn some coins uploading TV series or other media.

Thanks to joystream that is going to be possible now, but it'll require a lot of people to use it and contribute to paid seeders for it to work successfully. I remember the last time I test it, they allowed testing it on a test net platform.

I think once Ethereum gets up and running this whole side of things will take of. 

How to start and how much can you earn by this seeding?
Who have experience with that? Is it safe for using?