nearly-local filesharing

[Matt Price]

hey everyone,

a bunch of neighbours on my street all keep their media files in digital
format on their pc's.  often we want to share those files with each
other, or check something out while we're at each other's houses.
currently, we burn dvd's or cd's to do so, but it'd be really cool if we
could access each other's files from the various computers.  

I'm the only linux uses, the others are mostly on PC and I think there's
one Mac.  

Currently I have two ideas for this:

1- a password-protected ftp site running off of my server -- if someone
wants to share a file, they put it on the server in advance and then
others can access it using ftp.  

2 - some kind of small bittorrent tracker running on the above-mentioned
server.  For now at least i'd like it to be a private service, limited
to our neighbourhood.  

Seems to me neither solution is perfect.  I really don't want to get
into trouble in regards to my terms of service with teksavvy, or to
bring down The Man on our little filesharing group.  I'd also like to
have the load be distributed rather than centralized, so I'm not so
pleased with the ftp option.  But I just wondered whether anyone else
had tried something similar, and what your experience was.  And
especially if you have some better suggestions than these!  thanks,

matt




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