Nice! Can only hope torrent sites begin to use something like this.

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Originally posted by Mik3h:

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Nice! Can only hope torrent sites begin to use something like this.

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So it's like the .JPEG files that you can open in WINRAR? This kicks ass.

Originally posted by nintenut:

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So it's like the .JPEG files that you can open in WINRAR? This kicks ass.

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Originally posted by Mik3h:

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Nice! Can only hope torrent sites begin to use something like this.

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Why should torrent sites begin to use this?

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Originally posted by Mik3h:

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Nice! Can only hope torrent sites begin to use something like this.

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Why should torrent sites begin to use this?

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Seems like the point is not to revamp the torrent community. But, rather to offer a safer alternative to sharing links. As an alternative to upping files for friends/forum members etc. to sites like rapidshare. This way the files could be transfered for free much quicker(assuming all had broadband).

the idea of converting something to a PNG image isn't bad, but I just don't get it why you would like to do that with torrents.

If you're going to convert entire movies or songs, things become different. Now that would be usefull. Think about all those "unlimited bandwidth" hosts that you can get for little money (usually they only care about CPU and RAM usage, and that shouldn't be a problem). They often don't allow video files, but all of them allow PNG images.
Also, there lot's of places where you can upload for free PNG images.

BTW If anyone's interested in an off-line program (free) that can convert any file to PNG, just drop me a line.

i remember something similar to this back in the heyday of napster instead of pngs it was mp3. you had to set your search paramters a certain way then you found them, then used a program call unwrapper if i recall

Really nobody gets this??, this is brilliant!, but you would have to clarify a couple of things first.

1. A torrent file is not the movie or whatever you are downloading, it is solely the information as to the tracker that is coordinating the peers, and the general info of the file, this is how m1n1nova works, they store only the .torrent files.

2. Converting the torrent into a picture means that you can post it anywhere, like imageshack or whatever you use, facebook, hi5 whatever, and they can't know what you're doing unless somebody reports you. therefore you make the torrent publication available in places where you couldnt think of before.

they will eventually just look for image files like this and delete or refuse them.

and if the file is believed to be of said content, and is labeled as such, while in this encrypted form, they will eventually just start deleting png files matching this criteria.

it will be a short lived scenario. but i still like it. this could spawn further creative ways around corp a$$ munchers.

You still have to be able to find the .png files, thus you still need a tracker. Finding tracker sites is pretty easy, so where's the improvement in this? I must be missing something.

Originally posted by loubat:

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You still have to be able to find the .png files, thus you still need a tracker. Finding tracker sites is pretty easy, so where's the improvement in this? I must be missing something.

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