‘Super-awesome’ Bitsmash BitTorrent stats
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The on- and offline media, record companies on various sides of various offences, developers, people interested in P2P as the distribution method of the 21st century, so on and etc, are always looking for BitTorrent stats.
They’re hard to find, but Ben, aka Smash, a p2pnet friend from a long time back, has a neat project in hand which’ll fill some of the vacuum.
How?
With Bitsmash, his, “super-awesome site that keeps statistics of .torrent-files, used by the BitTorrent HTTP-based peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing system”.
Says the site »»»
Bitsmash is eventually going to provide an XML-API for BitTorrent statistics. Right now, this site (shown) is in a somewhat “beta”-status for testing and consistency.
We’re also not sure what kind of load is going to be required to run a project such-as this, but we’ll have to wait and find out.
Keep in mind that this is NOT a project to promote copyright-infringement or piracy, nor to combat it. We are merely a third-party that provides statistics of all BitTorrent traffic, regardless of content. We do not redistribute any such content or even offer the ‘.torrent’ files from which such content could be recreated or copied.
It is also nearly impossible for us to verify if content is real, fake, copyrighted, illegal, virus-ridden, or even stolen — which is why we also open our statistics pages for discussion. So, go nuts everyone! Let’s see where this goes.
p2pnet asked Ben what got him into this.
“I just made it for fun,” he said. “I wanted to put together a solid BitTorrent site for metrics and information.
“I’ve been doing a bunch of things lately but this was mostly only a project for the last month or so.
“It’s not regionalized (since it’s the www) but you can map out where the downloaders and trackers are using the integrated Google Maps.”
Did he have anyone helping him? Nope, “Just built it in my free-time with help from another developer in the beginning on some of the backend but otherwise it’s all my work,” he said, adding:
“I’m getting feedback from a limited amount of ‘beta’ testers right now and the goal is to make a solid launch on the 15th.
“Should be interesting.”
Heh. Yup 
“We’re allowing the chart-data to settle and fixing any bugs that are reported and/or found by me,” he says, so, “If you guys spot any inconsistencies, definitely let me know.”
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