Watching vods over youtube, ustream or similar is a real pain for the few fans around my neck of the woods. So downloading torrents is really the best solution to watching proleague or SC2 tournaments. Proleague's not a problem...SC2 torrents seem to be harder to find.

Since internet is insanely expensive here, I download whatever I can and share it. Would be nice to torrent TLI EU and US or HDH's tourney or the numerous others around.

Not too sure what the reason behind only youtube or streaming tourneys are? If you can enlighten me, I would appreciate it. I suspect it has to do with the advertising income potential on the streams?

BlueApex

63 Posts

May 16 2010 07:07 GMT

google is your friend, look for a legit 1 + instructions on pirate bay.

dronebabo

10866 Posts

May 16 2010 07:38 GMT

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datscilly

United States528 Posts

May 16 2010 07:40 GMT

It seems that you're saying you prefer torrents over streaming because you can download it only once, and then share it to save bandwidth. In that case, you can download youtube videos too.

Acies

Australia196 Posts

May 16 2010 07:55 GMT

That depends. Youtube doesn't support download resuming so if his internet is unreliable it could be very difficult to download from there. He might need to spread the downloading of a single vod over several periods of downloading and idle time which bittorrent supports.

Otherwise they are very easy to get with firefox extensions
http://www.downloadhelper.net can dl both ustream and youtube
although I prefer this one for youtube http://www.yourvideofile.com/

The other solution would be to post the vods on dvds.

IronWolf

South Africa315 Posts

May 17 2010 18:55 GMT

If it where a tourney like TLS (SC2 version) I would be willing to pay someone for DVD! It will be faster than downloading it :D In fact, 100+ Day[9].Daily's would be something I would consider getting posted.

I do record youtube using a FF add-on, but since I am on the move between work and home - I have to switch internet connections which would stop the dl. It's a pain to have to download parts of a game (youtube)...this is a problem even if you have good internet. So I was wondering why tournies like HDH, TLI and Day9 streams for one, do not make torrents available?

Acies

Australia196 Posts

May 18 2010 09:22 GMT

In HDH's case I know hd and husky are trying to earn youtube partnerships so obviously they want as many views on thier youtube channels as possible.
As for TL events I guess it's because it hasn't occured to them that it is difficult for some to dl via youtube since it is the single most stable video site in the western world.

You should pm Zatic, T.O.P and Solinren to see if they can help you since they are the most fequent torrent submitters and clearly have the bandwidth to initial seed. I'd like to help you out but my internet is only intermitedly capable of seeding.

100 day9 dailys would take about 7 dvds which is about 1kg. That would cost around $20aud by seamail or $40aud by airmail for me to post (I haven't dled them all yet). I'm guessing it would be cheaper for you to find someone in europe if you want to persue that option.

KwarK

United States41582 Posts

May 18 2010 09:34 GMT

Find some games you want and I'll download them, torrent them and seed them for you overnight. Pm me.
Answering this kind of request for fellow fans is one of the most important things tl can do imo.

IronWolf

South Africa315 Posts

May 18 2010 12:08 GMT

Awesome guys, thanks. I will PM Zatic and hear what he says - hopefully be able to help with TLI. Will ask HDStarcraft.

@KwarK - thanks man!! ygpm!
I have a usenet account so can do nzb's if that makes it easier for you?

These would be cool - basically the latest SC2 Day[9].Daily's:

+ Show Spoiler +

5/16 Day[9] Daily #0117 Starcraft 2 Morrow in CraftCup (Blip.tv)

5/13 Day[9] Daily #0116 Starcraft 2 Learning from a Loss (Blip.tv)
5/12 Day[9] Daily #0115 Starcraft 2 A fun 2v2 of my housemates (Blip.tv)
5/11 Day[9] Daily #0114 Starcraft 2 Jinro's Ghosts in TvZ (ustream)
5/10 Day[9] Daily #0113 Starcraft 2 Day[9] vs Moonglade (Blip.tv)
5/09 Day[9] Daily #0112 Hiya vs Free (Blip.tv)
5/07 Razer Domination Finals Demuslim vs Dimaga (ustream)
5/07 Razer Domination 3rd/4th place Nazgul vs Strelok (Part 1) (Part 2)
5/06 Day[9] Daily #0111 Starcraft 2 Lucifron's TvZ Transitioning (Blip.tv)

4/26 Day[9] Daily #0109 Starcraft 2 Nony's Phoenixes PvT (Blip.tv)

4/21 Day[9] Daily #0106 Fantasy vs Pure - Eye of the Storm (Blip.tv)
4/20 Day[9] Daily #0105 Starcraft 2 Diehilde's ZvZ #2 (Part 1) (Part 2)
4/19 Day[9] Daily #0104 Starcraft 2 Diehilde's ZvZ #1 (Blip.tv)

4/15 Day[9] Daily #0102 Starcraft 2 DeMusliM vs HasuObs TvP Best of 3 (Blip.tv)
4/14 Day[9] Daily #0101 Starcraft 2 KawaiiRice TvP early expo style (Blip.tv)
4/13 Day[9] Daily #0100 My Life of Starcraft (Blip.tv) (Livestream)
4/12 Day[9] Daily #0099 Starcraft 2 Jinro vs Naruto TvT - Steppes of War (Livestream)
4/11 ZOTAC #7 Finals Spoiler Free! (Livestream)
4/11 ZOTAC #7 SemiFinal 2 Mondragon vs Mana (partial) (Livestream)
4/11 ZOTAC #7 SemiFinal 1 Nazgul vs Bischu (Livestream)
4/10 HelloGoodbye 3rd/4th place and Finals Spoiler Free (casted with Diggity) (reuploading - if/when its available)
4/09 HelloGoodbye SemiFinals Inka vs Machine and Idra vs Ruthless (casted with Diggity) (Livestream)
4/08 Day[9] Daily #0098 Starcraft 2 CellaWerra vs Protoss - Blistering Sands (Livestream)
4/08 Fragster.de Showmatch Kolll vs Spell (Livestream)

Once I have them, I don't mind reseeding (using my crappy line).

Acies

Australia196 Posts

May 18 2010 13:47 GMT

#10

I have most of those. When Kwark makes the torrent, I and anyone else who wants to help can just dl the torrent, rename the files we alreay have to match the torrent so it will hash them then help seed. Instruct your client not to dl any vods you don't already have so you don't waste the swarm's bandwidth if you can get them from youtube/ustream yourself.