I know we can’t do this with any copyrighted materials. But a lot of books, music, art, knowledge is in the creative commons. Is it possible to create one massive torrent that includes all that can be legally included and then have people only download what they actually want to enjoy?
I mean… That pretty much describes torrents period… What is the functional difference between hosting a single torrent with everything, and hosting a torrent per item?
If the expectation is that you only include files you want when downloading the torrent, you’re only going to be seeding that portion.
Seems like it would just make the search function harder, and make it harder to determine the “health” of individual items…
I don’t understand the benefit…
For example zlibrary is 220TB of books and scientific articles, that included in the torrent would be great along with all the stuff that is arts and music.
Basically it would be a way to combat media vanishing off of the net over time. Basically a noah’s arche for all of mankinds knowledge.
It would be great to have everything in one single spot to make it easier to contribute and get stuff. We’d also be more easily capable of combining our forces to maintain/create the thing.