Was there any discussion on the use of torrents to offload the bandwidth consumed by media delivery?
1.) Install Vuze: http://www.vuze.com/Download.html
2.) Download and open the files here: http://mises.org/services/torrents/
I’m a bit of a torrent newbie. I have used them, but I can find them on public torrent searches.
When I looked the other day, I didn’t see the Mises torrents JT referenced at the MIses circle on the public search engines I use.
Do I have to install Vuze? I hate adding software.
We only submit the torrents to certain trackers. You’re welcome to submit them yourself though.
You can use any bittorrent client you like, but you do need to install one of them.
Ok, thanks. I might get around to that. I’d be happy to contribute some bandwidth during these early phases.
Vuze is very bloated. utorrent is the best bit torrent client (very minimal, and very fast):
And thank you for pointing us to the torrents HeroicLife, I just emailed Jeffrey Tucker about it and got a very quick reply to email you for questions about the torrents.
Awesome!
torrents are the new way to peer to peer share…
well, its not that new, but it might be new to some of you…
utorrent is what you want to download…its super small and is free from crap loaded in it…
once you have it installed…the best places to get your torrents is from
Hello, I had to register here after I saw the blog post ‘Mises.org is going open source - volunteers wanted’.
I have a LAMP web server with a 250GB/mo transfer quota, much of which is unused. I could help in mirroring some of the media content, namely, the pdf books.
One big problem with the torrent (http://mises.org/services/torrents/books.torrent) is that all the files have short, cryptic names of which one can’t know which file is which book. I think I could bundle one author’s books in one zip file and share it via the web server, to make mass downloading more sensible. To avoid the need of crawling and parsing http://mises.org/literature.aspx manually, I am asking whether it is possible to pull out a CSV file from the database listing these columns:
- author name
- author id
- book’s full name
- source (Online Books etc.)
- url to pdf
- last modified time
Preferably the file should be periodicadilly updated and posted to a specified url. And no, the RSS feed doesn’t seem to provide all the details.
Uh oh, for some reason all the line breaks disappeared from the post.
Well, anyway, everyone should understand it.
I’m downloading the Multimedia and Books torrents very happily, but I want to ask whether there will be any kind of public announcement or more attention drawn to the bittorrent service?
Yes, it’s just waiting for me to get around to writing it.
Ok 
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I’ve shared the entire Mises.org database and the CSV of Mises Media and documents: MisesMedia.csv
Thank you for responding. The packaging/mirroring of pdf books in a more user-friendly way was my primary idea, but I am open to other suggestions too.
I took a glance at the CSV file and it seems to be comma-separated, with some problems. Some of the titles have commas in them, so this breaks up the comma-separated structure. In some partsin the file, there are snippets of HTML code with line breaks, again breaking the structure (wonder why?)
It is quite difficult to parse the file with these flaws. Is it possible to fix them? I suggest making the file tab-separated, so commas in the columns won’t matter. Another question is will this file be automatically updated, say, daily? I’d think making such a cron job would be fairly trivial.
It took me ages to sort all the books! It would be nice for other users if they were organised.
Breaking news
I did finally decide just to write a parser script to process the web pages myself, so now the parsing problem is solved.
The compressed archives are uploaded, and can be found here: http://liberalismi.net/books/
Currently the site has only authors who had two or more books. You can send any comments etc here.
freedom_observer,
Good idea, thanks! Using your list, I’ve split my collection into One Book Only and Multiple Books .
Has the torrent server changed recently, possibly outsourced to theplanet.com? It is so much slower 
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