Hey guys,
I don't know why but I've never liked torrents. I much prefer downloading shows from places like megaupload where you don't have to rely on seeds.

I was thinking of making a charitable donation to the forums here and just buy a megaupload subscription for a year and host all the audience recordings from this tour on it (and anything else I can think of).

And if anyone wanted to add a show to it I'd somehow make it work. I'd like suggestions on that btw!

Thoughts?

It won't really make a difference with uploading as a normal user (except maybe for when the files will be deleted when they're aren't downloaded). Even if you upload a file as a Premium user, the downloader still has very limited bandwidth and dl-speed and needs to go through a captcha before the download (and that explains the popularity of bittorrent). When you want to offer direct downloads at great speeds you probably need something like Rapidshare Trafficshare and that's more costly depending on the popularity of the files (but I guess you'll need the 2,5TB-package @ €200).

I'm not sure how many torrents I've downloaded with 1 seed that are faster than something from a download site. Plus, it's guaranteed to come through at some point.

But maybe I'm just not the user that is downloading a ton of shows at a time since I pretty much stick to Pearl Jam and a few various other bands. So I don't require massive speed. Just thought it would be a good idea for non-torrent people since so many of these are torrent only.

let's not forget, non-torrent people can ask for a b&p too

Let's not forget, non-torrent people can spend 15 minutes and become torrent people too.

That's why I was saying I would just host the stuff, basically a virtual B&P.

There are many reasons why folks don't do torrent btw, not just laziness.

True, my internet download is very limited at a high price so I can't torrent much.

have you ever heard of a guy called demetrios?

OK so I got a megaupload account anyway because I want to start putting my masters online.

Would it be OK to put the torrented versions of the shows I downloaded (Chicago shows so far) and list links to them for the non torrent folks?

Thanks.

I think it's ok, I haven't heard otherwise at this point, but if I do, I will let you know.

thanks bee girl. Also got that APC master edited but the last songs are cut off. I don't even remember how that happened. It was a long time ago, but I'll shoot you a link when I upload it.