the issue of how to keep old but valuable content alive and available is a problem of the bittorrent system which favours new content and large swarms. tribler is delivering real value by looking at the issue of “eternal torrents” torrents which are a valuable part of the global historic content collection but for which there is very little incentive with tit-for-tat to keep alive unless you are a fanatic of that specific genre. the tribler proposal goes some way to support the objective of a global historic library of bittorrent content

i myself have several torrents of content from the late 60′s and early 70′s which i and perhaps only 1 or 2 others are keeping alive, without us that content would not be available but if tribler is gonna reward me for my effort then i am somewhat grateful for the recognition and happy that perhaps others will now be encouraged to similarily keep older content alive

for the algorythm to work it must of course record the *time duration* the rare seed is available and not the upload volume. my rare torrents are seeded 24/7 but very rarely do they connect to another peer, but i know when they do that the other peer is indeed very grateful

and besides that, my internet is crap, it’s unstable, often goes out for between 10 sec and 20 min.. and the weather too, half the time it rains around me (which is often), expect thunder and lightning. and I have too much else to use it for, not enough speed or stability to seed and play a game or read the news..