The support for webseeding is exactly why I'm proposing this as The Final Solution to this ever recurring problem.

Nice work by the way, Christopher!

Wim Leers  ~  http://wimleers.com/work

On Sep 28, 2007, at 16:19 , Christopher Bradford wrote:

  The bittorrent module has an integrated tracker and supports the web-seeding extension. This means two things:
a) The tracker will not have to be run from the command line
b) Should no seeds be available the torrent clients would pull data from the server over HTTP (should the client support it)