Distributing the Geograph Archive with BitTorrent?
Geograph attracts the occasional bit of unfriendly leeching, where someone mirrors the entire site at high speed. Considering we’ve got close to 250,000 pages, that can be quite a bandwidth hit for a non-profit entity.
We’ve policed this manually up until now, but we’ll certainly need to add some automated software protection to separate legitimate browsers [...]
