BitTorrent and Video Download Forum

Or, at the very least, an FAQ thread... for the rest of us who have to catch up to that kind of technology.

A "BitTorrents for Dummies", as it were.

 

I was just about to make a thread on this. Here is my take:

Make it JUST BitTorrent.

Why?

Because video clips often come along with an implied result. I mean, lets say you just watched the England-France Euro 2004 game, and you wanted Zidane's goals, you might name your post "Does someone have Zidane's latest goals?" or something.

With BitTorrent full matches only, we can keep the forum totally clean of results. Keep it simple, and make forum posting rules. Such as this format: "EURO 2004: England vs. France FULL GAME [R]". This will be wonderful, since for events like Euro 2004, many of us cannot watch the game live, and downloading it 20 minutes after completion is not a bad substitute - but only if the result remains totally unknown.

Where would we get the torrents? Simple. Here's a start: http://www.soccer-media.com/bbs/forumdisplay.php?fid=30

That site has pros and cons. Pros are that its in Chinese and I will never find out a result from it. Cons are, well, its in Chinese. But once you get used to it, you learn the latest torrents are stickied and up top. As soon as one person gets the torrent working, we could post it on BigSoccer, because that forum requires registration to download.

On the other hand, I would be content with the BigSoccer board just providinig a link to the appropriate thread on the Chinese site. It isn't that hard to click on the only link on a page, whether English, Chinese, or Swahili.

Tell me what you guys think. This could really be the next step in BigSoccer evolution. And with BitTorrent, unlike other programs, the more people downloading the faster it is for everyone!

 

Yes, this would be very helpful as it's hard to find the games you are looking for right now since they are all contained in ONE thread, so you have to scroll through (currently) 17 pages of posts in order to find the game you are looking for. It'd be much better for everyone if there was an entire forum and each game had it's own thread.

 

I downloaded the Euro 2004 match of France vs England right after the match was finished. It was my first Bittorrent download and I was pretty impressed. I got it form another soccer boards forum, soocerpulse.com, that has a whole soccer video forum dedicated. I would like to get people from BigSoccer downloading this stuff so that the downloads become faster for everyone.

 

I agree. I have already encoded a bunch of matches (all of euro 2004 so far) - this would help organize things properly.

 

Thinking out loud - are there copyright issues involved for BigSoccer if the site appears to openly encourage the downloading of matches that somebody paid millions for the right to broadcast? A few fans writing about illegal Korean feeds or bit torrents is one thing, but setting up a clearinghouse for such stuff might make the site a target.

 

Your doing a great job Maxxed, nice work...I've been keeping track of the games but Ive noticed that there's one game thats missed out... the Portual Vs Greece game which was the very 1st game played at Euro 2004.

 

can u help me find the match between...England vs. Croatia

 

www.suprnova.org has the matches on torrent

and i agree with casper, lets keep it on the DL (down low, that is)

 

I cant see any search on suprnova unless im missing something.

 

Does anyone know where to find the Portual Vs Greece game (Game 1) ??

 

*ding*ding*ding*

 

Our attorney is researching this.

 

flannigan?

 

How about just making it a more generic intellectual property theft forum?

I mean, that's what we're talking, isn't?

 

any word from the attorney yet ;>

 

I agree with pc4th

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