# Useful or Not? Idea to rails application

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/useful-or-not-idea-to-rails-application/140813>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 18, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/useful-or-not-idea-to-rails-application/140813 "2008-06-18T20:54:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/di3go)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/useful-or-not-idea-to-rails-application/140813/1 "2008-06-18T20:54:29Z")

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I live in Brazil, in most parts we dont have a high speed internet, i  
download lots torrents and its a pain \>.\< take some time, some take  
weeks to download \>.\>  
My idea is a webserver to download torrents and than download the files  
from the server when finish, so this way dont gonna have problems with  
firewalls blocking the ports, leaving the pc running, low upload speed  
and so… Of couse the service gonna be paid, unmetered network cost  
some money \>.\<  
Later the service can be expanded to more networks (Gnutela,…)

Good idea? Not a good idea?

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**Author:** ![di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/di3go)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/useful-or-not-idea-to-rails-application/140813/2 "2008-06-18T21:04:38Z")

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Diego B. wrote:

> I live in Brazil, in most parts we dont have a high speed internet, i  
> download lots torrents and its a pain \>.\< take some time, some take  
> weeks to download \>.\>  
> My idea is a webserver to download torrents and than download the files  
> from the server when finish, so this way dont gonna have problems with  
> firewalls blocking the ports, leaving the pc running, low upload speed  
> and so… Of couse the service gonna be paid, unmetered network cost  
> some money \>.\<

Although don’t you then have to download the files from your webserver  
over the same slow connection?  
Apart from that sounds like an absolute nightmare from the point of  
view of liability.

Fred

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**Author:** ![di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/di3go)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/useful-or-not-idea-to-rails-application/140813/3 "2008-06-18T21:23:36Z")

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Diego B. wrote:

> I live in Brazil, in most parts we dont have a high speed internet, i  
> download lots torrents and its a pain \>.\< take some time, some take  
> weeks to download \>.\>  
> My idea is a webserver to download torrents and than download the files  
> from the server when finish, so this way dont gonna have problems with  
> firewalls blocking the ports, leaving the pc running, low upload speed  
> and so… Of couse the service gonna be paid, unmetered network cost  
> some money \>.\<  
> Later the service can be expanded to more networks (Gnutela,…)
> 
> Good idea? Not a good idea?

I’m not sure this would be an effective solution. The advantage of  
torrents is that it distributes the download across multiple hosts.

As Fred indicated, from a legal standpoint, this is a very, very  
dangerous idea - guaranteed to be sued by everybody.

Tilden

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**Author:** ![di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/di3go)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/useful-or-not-idea-to-rails-application/140813/4 "2008-06-18T21:25:04Z")

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Frederick C. wrote:

> Diego B. wrote:
> 
> > I live in Brazil, in most parts we dont have a high speed internet, i  
> > download lots torrents and its a pain \>.\< take some time, some take  
> > weeks to download \>.\>  
> > My idea is a webserver to download torrents and than download the files  
> > from the server when finish, so this way dont gonna have problems with  
> > firewalls blocking the ports, leaving the pc running, low upload speed  
> > and so… Of couse the service gonna be paid, unmetered network cost  
> > some money \>.\<
> 
> Although don’t you then have to download the files from your webserver  
> over the same slow connection?  
> Apart from that sounds like an absolute nightmare from the point of  
> view of liability.
> 
> Fred

the main problem is the upload speed, my upload speed is very low so  
some programs limit my download speed because im not seeding like im  
downloading and torrent download is kind unstable, some times max speed,  
sometimes 1k, from a server you gonna have a garanted speed to download.  
I dont know, was just a brainstorm idea