What if scene.org went down?
There's something that comes to my mind each time that scene.org suffers of one of those post-big-party syndromes, and everything runs slow as hell, including pouet and who knows what else… what if it went down, one day, forever?
I also thought of that when they got menaced by evil lawyers, some time past year, and the only solution which came to my mind was p2p. Which somehow (call me romantic or maybe ridiculous, is up to you) reminds me to those old times when productions were distributed by swappers.
I must confess I never managed to actually get a demo by that way, such newschool I am… The most that I did was getting impulse tracker 2 by snail mail, which was quite cool really… those emotional moments while copying from the disk drive to the hard drive, finger crossing and willing it to not to fail, uncompressing the lha… :')
In fact, there are already some scene sites distributing their files by means like bittorrent. Modarchive comes to mind: they are distributing the whole huge archive. There were also some ASCII recopilations, and scene DVD's if I'm not wrong. So that's not a new idea, but it would be nice to have it consolidated so if for example, it's just after breakpoint and we all want to get the releases, we should leave them in our harddrives ready for be seeded and shared, with some sort of tag or so (I think I read someone suggesting to add sceneorg in the file name).
It's not exactly as swapping as in the old good days, as it's not really based on having very good contacts, if we interchanged by emule, but can be quite similar if you just distribute by bittorrent and just give the seed to whoever you think that deserves it ;-) (Oh well, I'm not sure how the two methods work, maybe I'm saying a big lie, please correct me in that case).
trace
20060420
This is why I wasn't sure about using the SceneID thing for escena.org v2.
sml
20060421
mmm, some links related to the topic:
http://www.scene.org/showforum.php?forum=4&topic=101302
I guess it's only an idea from someone but I haven't also found any file with this search..
Another p2p solution was the Scenester (or a similar name). It was expected to be a napster-clone dedicated to demoscene productions, with features for special information from prods, etc.
I remember it was discussed in the cspid group, but probably the project never ended.
btw, trace, why are you saying that? I mean, I don't know if it's a good idea to use SceneID or not, but I don't see the relation with the sole's post ;P
trace
20060423
SceneID and ProdID are "services" that scene.org offers, aren't they? If scene.org is down, how can escena.org v2 validate an user? Doing a mirror everyday of the database? UH?
sml
20060423
OK, now I get it… I was trying to relation it with the last part of the post and not to the topic…
sergeeo
20060424
Well there's a big difference between the old swapping days and now. In a DVD you can record thousands of demos… in an old 3,15" you could record just thousands of 64kb intros…
humphr3yhumphr3y
20060425
No creo que pasara nada… en su día ya se fueron a freir puñetas otros servidores como cucug, trebel, la mayoría de aminet… tal vez mirando los que han quedado de aminet (los de las universidades), ese sería un buen lugar para guardar toda ese paquete enorme de datos en algun ladao… pero bueno, mirando al futuro, lo mismo cabe todo scene.org en un Blu-Ray Disc de 200 Gb o algo asi…