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Re: ED2K Links for all Online Books

tacoface — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:47:48 GMT

don't worry conza, it'll fail. i doubt it'll even get started. in two years our wireless will be 10x better than it anyway.

i hope i dont ever meet rudd or ill deck the low cunt.

Re: ED2K Links for all Online Books

Conza88 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:27:53 GMT

And it's going to get worse. Govt proposing internet censorship. Govt firewall.

Also: $45 Billion plan to build a new broadband network (govt creating a new public company) to do so.. and it will be faster than anything the 'freemarket' has provided! God damnit..

Re: ED2K Links for all Online Books

hayekianxyz — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:19:37 GMT

Conza88:
All are properly named. I am in Aus and pay for upload brandwidth, which makes torrenting and sharing frustratingly absorptive. So I can't really seed it to the world.

Yeah, I remember on a torrent site I used to be on a number of Australians were complaining about the internet over there. From what I heard it's horribly expensive and slow at that, simply because of how far you guys are from everywhere else.

It'd be great if somebody could upload some of the material on the site on to some trackers, the people who use torrents are probably those that are likely to be attracted to libertarianism anyway, I'll look into to doing it in the summer but I can't right now (can't seed at university & computer problems). One problem is that a lot of private trackers don't let you upload material that's available for free elsewhere on the web, which means everything on the site.

Re: ED2K Links for all Online Books

freedom_observer — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:39:03 GMT

Just to notify you all, I've finally set up the book archive site.

The compressed archives can be found here: http://liberalismi.net/books/

Send any comments to the other thread.

Re: ED2K Links for all Online Books

Tex2002ans — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:56:57 GMT

freedom_observer:
But now, those ed2k links will be really useful since I can actually uniquely identify the files from the size column, and then rename/repackage the files.

I sent you an email.

Re: ED2K Links for all Online Books

freedom_observer — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:56:39 GMT

Wow!

As I said in the thread Conza88 mentioned, I was planning to download the books, repackage them in a more sensible way, and upload them to my web server. However I had not written any web crawler software before to collect the file data, so the project "stagnated".

But now, those ed2k links will be really useful since I can actually uniquely identify the files from the size column, and then rename/repackage the files.

This will still take some time to transfer so many gigabytes, and set up the web site. So stay tuned.

Re: ED2K Links for all Online Books

Tex2002ans — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:46:04 GMT

I just looked at the Audio torrent, and you do have it sorted in the folders which makes it much better, but the filenames themselves are still not the greatest. But I must admit, that the Audio torrent looks the best out of them, the Books torrent is still horrible, and the Multimedia torrent is horrible as well (besides the mp3 section which matches the Audio torrent completely).

I have a couple of questions... I know the basics, but not the really in depth information about torrents. What happens when new files are posted on the website, do those torrents need to be manually updated? What happens to those sharing the old torrent?

Re: ED2K Links for all Online Books

Conza88 — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:15:05 GMT

This thread may be useful.

I manually downloaded basically all the mises audio and put them into their proper file structure in accordance with the site setup.

All are properly named. I am in Aus and pay for upload brandwidth, which makes torrenting and sharing frustratingly absorptive. So I can't really seed it to the world.

Someone really needs to fix the first torrent though, proper names, folders, etc. It's a must and will make it very useful / popular - become a direct source for people to download Mises Content, saving TONS of brandwidth from the site which means lower costs aswell and better for Liberty.

Re: ED2K Links for all Online Books

Tex2002ans — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:00:15 GMT

Nitroadict:
If I (or someone else) managed to bother with ED2K & download these, I would be willing to pack them into a few .rar files & seed them on piratebay or some other tracker.

But again, not everyone wants to hold every single pdf on their computer, they might want some, or 80%, or all, or move it to different folders, or change filenames. This is why I prefer ED2K because you can share whatever files you want, with everyone on the network (instead like BT only those on that specific tracker).

liberty student:
Jeff has a lot on his plate, so whatever people can volunteer to do, like ED2K, is a big help.

I was talking to Jeffrey Tucker about this over the past couple of weeks, he was just mentioning that it would be a huge task to go rename all files manually, and I agree. It took me a nice amount of hours to rename every single Online Book. And that is just one tiny section of files, we still have the horrible names for Videos and Journals too.

I was just mentioning that we could stick with an extremely useful naming format for files FROM NOW ON if anything, because this does not require extra work.

Re: ED2K Links for all Online Books

liberty student — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:26:27 GMT

I had no luck downloading the Mises torrents to seed. I mean, I got the torrent files, but I couldn't pull down any data.

I might try again. I would rather seed files with adequate meta data however. I agree that the Mises PDF filenames for a lot of the lit are lacking detail.

Like, "money.pdf" WTF? LOL!

Jeff has a lot on his plate, so whatever people can volunteer to do, like ED2K, is a big help.

Re: ED2K Links for all Online Books

Nitroadict — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:16:34 GMT

I prefer bit torrent as a more efficient means of distribution. If I (or someone else) managed to bother with ED2K & download these, I would be willing to pack them into a few .rar files & seed them on piratebay or some other tracker.

Re: ED2K Links for all Online Books

Tex2002ans — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:58:50 GMT

Conza88:
Do they work with Azeurus / Vuze ?

Sadly, no. Azureus/Vuze/utorrent are all work on the BitTorrent network.

This is a completely seperate network called ED2K. The most used program on the network is called Emule.

I prefer it because people anywhere can search for all the files on the network, and share files with the whole network without having to find some specific website that has which file you want, or some obscure torrent hidden on Mises in the dark depths of the internet (which only would share with other people who found that exact torrent hidden in the dark depths of the website).

Re: ED2K Links for all Online Books

Andrew Cain — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:39:56 GMT

Who is that scholar who said:

'Give us another year then there will be 24, 50 and then eventually thousands. There will be thousands of copies of Mises.org, and then let them try to shut us down. There will be nothing they can do.'

The future is optomistic because of this man.

Re: ED2K Links for all Online Books

Conza88 — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:27:42 GMT

Do they work with Azeurus / Vuze ?

Re: ED2K Links for all Online Books

jtucker — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:17:59 GMT

It's so fantastic that you are doing this! The greatest thing to happen to Mises.org was for it to become the work of a global community.