X-- How the make a torrent live forever --X

Do you hate it when torrents of cool old shows whither and die as trackers obsolesce? Well, that doesn't have to happen.

1) Get yourself a bittorrent client which either [A] supports the editing of torrent files to update their trackers *without* altering the hash-number (circa 2006, I am aware of no utility which does so, although it is an obvious improvement), or [B] allows manually editing the tracker field of a a torrent presently open in the client (circa 2006, uTorrent for PC is capable of doing so).

2) Go to http://www.openlitebt.com/trackerlist/ and save the tracker list. If the site is down, changed or defunct, do a web-search for "torrents public tracker list".

3a) [PC/uTorrent-specialized instructions] Edit the list of public trackers in notepad so that there is a blank line between every one. When it's done, highlight, right-click and "copy".

3b) Open uTorrent and open the torrent you wish to trade. Right-click on the torrent's name in uTorrent's main window, and drop down to Properties; click. A pop-window will appear with General (default main) and Advanced tabs; the torrent's tracker list should be showing in General. Left-click the list to insert a typing cursor, then down-arrow all the way to the bottom; make sure there's an extra empty line, then paste in the trackers you cut/copied in 3a. Click the [OK] button of the Properties windows.

Example of this in practice: "Greatest Ultra-Rare Show Ever" torrent is hosted on a single site, with a tracker of something like "xyztorrents.com/6969:announce" -- and that site goes down. With the "uTorrent trick" above, seeds and peers who employ it can continue to trade the file until either someone creates a new torrent file with new trackers (resulting in a new hash number) or a means is created to edit existing torrent files.