A good waste of time and bandwidth.

Oh, I know that what I’m describing is likely impossible with the current technology — but, I’m trying to think YEARS INTO THE FUTURE!! If there is a way to make the data blocks even more reusable in newer versions, then with the increasing availability of large-capacity hard drives that should soon be arriving (10TB, 20TB, 100TB???) in the marketplace, it might be possible to have a giant pool of blocks stored locally — and then perhaps only the hash keys would need to be shared…. or, if just the most commonly used blocks could at least be stored somehow, then you would only need to download the more exotic ones!

Really, it’s only in past couple of months that people have started to seriously seek alternatives to the popular styles of downloading. So, as you said, there hasn’t been that much reason to push for development on things like this…. until now! Although I agree that it should be made relatively simple to use, as corporations and governments continue to threaten internet users, many more people are increasingly ready to try out something new — new is exactly what many of them WANT now, as long as it works easily and effectively. Whether the current clients are ‘dead’ now, I’m not sure…. but BlocksNet seems to be taking a long nap, at least! OFFLoad has been getting more attention, I think; but beyond that, who knows?!

Some people seem to think that eMule might be something which could help support OFFSystem downloads (to search for hash keys, if nothing else)…. Not as popular as torrents, but maybe worth considering. Well, I hope that you report back if you have any success with any of this, or hear of something similar! Good luck!!

it doesn’t matter if you back up the entire cyberlocker files to torrent because it still faces the time decay problem, if not enough people download it it will disappear, which is the beauty of cyberlockers because as long as nobody sends DMCA, it will live and at descent speeds too.

Another problem I see is legal stand of view. If your servers automatically upload to cyerlocker which then propagates to torrent networks, you are facing two vectors of copyright infringement and illegal distribution claim. first the cyberlocker legitmacy and now spreading that file through torrent.

it’s simply not worth the risk to add torrenting to already risky cyber locker business.