embeding the page in BASE is also a good idea.

Great minds think alike

Those torrent feeds are a good idea (FWIW, "torrent feeds" are being standardized *right now*), and I've considered them myself, too.

But then we face the problem of insufficient page views and therefore ad views once again. We *need* those ad views (and clicks of course) to be able to sustain the costs. So while I'd *love* to offer torrent feeds, I can't, because we really need that ad revenue.

Unless we only provide personalized torrent feeds for paying/donating users. I can't think of another way to provide that service level that also generates *some* income.

Can the Base Software be linked to the web page and in the software display the ads just link windows live messenger does? it shows web ads when you have the app open or force the app to open a web page and have the users view ads befre it downloads link tv shows online do.

Guys, I'm still up to my eyeballs in work at the moment and haven't been able to get to the office yet, but can confirm it's working very nicely here in a hotel in Oxford, with unfiltered internet access. I have checked the McAfee logs on my local machine and nothing has tripped the policy so it's not there.

Sorry for the bump, but this'll remind me to check it when I get back to the office.

You mean the BitTorrent downloads, or DriverPacks BASE's update checker?

Sorry for the bump, but this'll remind me to check it when I get back to the office.

But then we face the problem of insufficient page views and therefore ad views once again. We *need* those ad views (and clicks of course) to be able to sustain the costs. So while I'd *love* to offer torrent feeds, I can't, because we really need that ad revenue.

Unless we only provide personalized torrent feeds for paying/donating users. I can't think of another way to provide that service level that also generates *some* income.

Helmi wrote:

OverFlow wrote:

wouldn't the client still seed even if the folder were redirected???

AFAIK, yes.
When I manually DL the DP torrents, I usually directly let them be placed into the respective sub-dir of the DP folder - disregarding the default save path that I have set in µtorrent.
It still gets seeded until I manually delete it out of the program's list.

Wow really?  So I've been doing it wrong this whole time?
I guess I'll have to change how I seed these things.  I don't mess with the default utorrent settings (other than port forwarding on the router)

Still an excellent idea!

ooooh pretty quote pyramids!

@TSaddon YES RSS feed is also an excellent idea.

OverFlow wrote:

wouldn't the client still seed even if the folder were redirected???

AFAIK, yes.
When I manually DL the DP torrents, I usually directly let them be placed into the respective sub-dir of the DP folder - disregarding the default save path that I have set in µtorrent.
It still gets seeded until I manually delete it out of the program's list.

Wow really?  So I've been doing it wrong this whole time?
I guess I'll have to change how I seed these things.  I don't mess with the default utorrent settings (other than port forwarding on the router)

Still an excellent idea!

@Pants  wouldn't the client still seed even if the folder were redirected???

AFAIK, yes.
When I manually DL the DP torrents, I usually directly let them be placed into the respective sub-dir of the DP folder - disregarding the default save path that I have set in µtorrent.
It still gets seeded until I manually delete it out of the program's list.

So I would say, even with a path given via command line that should work just fine (at least for µtorrent, but that's probably the most common client around from what I've gathered. Not as blown-up as Azureus have become and it's even available portable - for instance as part of LiberKey).

Anyway, I like the idea, too, Rick!

Thank you for thanking us! countless peeps have put in countless hours .

Wow that is a great idea Rick!  You know us, we are kinda lax on semi OT convo.

However one of the reasons we disabled direct downloads is to attract advertisers and sponsors - donation is not even keeping the servers up and is never going to be anywhere near the $800 a month we would have to pay for a CDN, if one was not donated to us. We have been lucky enough to find generous companies like MaxCDN to step up BUT in order to attract that kind of sponsorship in an ongoing basis our page hits need to go up... yah it's nice seeing a stat like 250k downloads a month for us... but sponsors want to see how many times their banner gets seen and just as importantly what the conversion rate is. So... At least for the short term we need users to visit the pages to get the files. As we always say "help us to help you".

We are considering a multi tier solution. direct downloads for donors and manual for free... but have not set anything in stone yet.  If we go this route, and we probably will, then your idea is the best one i have heard yet!

You da Man!

Thanks for all you do here for us and for the community at large!

@Pants  wouldn't the client still seed even if the folder were redirected???

You guys are my heros!

Jeff

Example it would see if .torrent extension is installed and what is used to open it here in the registry

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.torrent\OpenWithProgids]
"uTorrent"=""

It sees its installed and uTorrent is the program, so it looks in the registry for uTorrent key for the cmdline

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\uTorrent\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\uTorrent\\uTorrent.exe\" \"%1\""

Then the BASE downloads the <dp>.torrent and opens utorrent with a path to the .torrent file

"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe" "<path_to_file>\<dp_torrent>.torrent"

uTorrent launches and the dp.torrent is added (and wouldn't it be gr8 if there were switches to add a save path that would save it in the \DriverPacks folder )

Edit: aparently there IS a way to specify a save path http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=53988

"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe" /DIRECTORY "<path_to_folder>\DriverPacks" "<path_to_file>\<dp_torrent>.torrent"

But it may not be practical, may differ for every torrent client out there

Still fishing for a compliment or a Thank You for all our hard work though .

Jeff