how to fileshare with bittorrent in ubuntu

[user1]

On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:13:04 -0200, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:59 AM, user1 <bqz69 at telia.com> wrote:
>> I am curious about why it is a danger to the film industry that private
>> people do filesharing using bittorrent, when I cannot make it work in
>> ubuntu 9.04.
>>
>> I have tried several bittorrent clients and made .torrent files for a
>> video of some 29 mb, but I cannot make it work.
>>
>> I have even had 2 different bittorrent clients sitting seeding the
>> file, but it still does not work.
>>
>> I also have the video together with its .torrent file sitting on a
>> webserver (a webhotel).
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Maybe it only works in windows - or is it a commercial only item,
>> disguised as private filesharing?
>>
>> I find it less easy getting help on this ubuntu-users mailing list, and
>> even googling gives less usable answers to me?
> 
> I have Vuze and Transmission installed (Jaunty and Karmic 64) and they
> work perfectly (providing the firewall is properly configured). Perhaps
> you could tell us more about what doesn't work or what happens when you
> try to use torrent clients.

You can see most of what I did on the thread:

"how to create a .torrent file" of Nov 28