Help Seeding the Schematic Heaven Torrent

[jmaf]

I've come across a few mirrors of the original Schematic Heaven and noticed the original files have been tampered with - ads, links and other code has been added to the original HTML. If you look at the source code on some of these mirrors, you'll see what I mean.

I've decided to share a 100% clean copy that I had on the amplifiers folder on my Linux PC. It was made using wget, getting pages every 2 or 3 seconds as to not hammer the original server. This took a long time, and as some of you may know, wget does not touch the contents of the files, so it's a 100% clean, original mirror of Schematic Heaven.

If enough of us share this, there'll always be a clean copy of the original site for others to use. Right now, if you mirror from the altered mirrors, you'll be perpetuating the ads,links and other changes made since. Also, I noticed the other torrent sizes floating around, they're over 200 MB smaller than this one, so I guess this is a more complete mirror.

Here's the Torrent: The Schematic Heaven Torrent (download torrent) - TPB

The Pirate Bay hosts both good, and some rather controversial, torrents. This one is 100% clean and legit. The Schematic Heaven material was licensed for all to copy and share, they just requested it not be sold.

The copyrights and patents on the schematics must be respected, of course, so if you decide to use any of the designs industrially, please check with the patent holders first. That applies to any schem, so it's not at all related to this torrent.

[tboy]

I clicked the link, but it doesn't seem to be there:

Not Found (aka 404)
You're looking for something that does not, has not, will not, might not or must not exist ...
... but you're always welcome to search for it.

[Jazz P Bass]

Link:The Pirate Bay - The world's most resilient bittorrent site

[Enzo]

He has been back up for quite a while, I just go to the source.

Schematic Heaven. Where All Good Amp & Effect Designs Await Resurrection...

[jmaf]

He has been back up for quite a while, I just go to the source.

Schematic Heaven. Where All Good Amp & Effect Designs Await Resurrection...

Enzo, I wasn't sure that was the original site, because all his HTML contains this line:
Mirrored from www.schematicheaven.com/index_HTML.htm by HTTrack Website Copier/3.x [XR&CO'2007], Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:04:43 GMT

I clicked the link, but it doesn't seem to be there:

I heard they had server issues today. If the problem persists, I'll resubmit the link tomorrow. Thanks for noting that.

[Enzo]

I am no computer expert, but as I understand ut, he foiund the new home for it after he had to leave the old. SO to get the stuff on the new site, he copied it from the old. Only thing I have found missing is the huge manual files - and that is noted on the site. Of course there are many places there I don;t usually look.

[jmaf]

I am no computer expert, but as I understand ut, he foiund the new home for it after he had to leave the old. SO to get the stuff on the new site, he copied it from the old. Only thing I have found missing is the huge manual files - and that is noted on the site. Of course there are many places there I don;t usually look.

The manuals are in the torrent, under ./manuals/ - 191MBytes - maybe we'll help him complete his copy of the original site.

[jmaf]

I clicked the link, but it doesn't seem to be there:

Update on the dead link: The Pirate Bay has blocked the torrent, the account, everything.

It is listed with IsoHunt.com but who knows how long it'll stay there : schematicheaventorrent

I don't know how this whole torrent thing works, but it's been downloaded over 6 times now which means there is enough data out in cyberspace to perpetuate Schematic Heaven forever...

[vintagekiki]

http://music-electronics-forum.com/t21857/

http://torentilo.com/download/4681335/Schematic-Heaven.html

[J M Fahey]

Update on the dead link: The Pirate Bay has blocked the torrent, the account, everything.

Oh sh*t !! (sorry)
Don't know if it might work this way, no Web expert at all, but can't it be divided into bite-size chunks (say, a 20Mb Fender schematics "pack", and so on) and linked to some EMule servers or shared throuh the EMule net?
I fear that *HUGE* data depositories are frowned upon, and in many Countries, including my own, Torrents are blocked by ISP providers.
Oi, JMAF, eles até podem ter feito o mesmo com você.
Sad but true.
In Argentina they were challenged by a Consumer Rights organization; their answer was to comply ... on the surface ... but they now use 2 tricks:
1) they let pass freely the first few Mb, after 15 minutes they start to slow down, after an hour it crawls, if you let a download overnight, you find little more than 8 hours ago.
2) they pass all Torrent links in a huge area, through the same server, with the same (assigned by them) IP address.
In that way, it appears to be an incredibly voracious single user, and traffic chokes all day long.
A variant of this, (it happened to me personally, as checked by a friend) , is that my demands do not appear with my real IP address, but with a generic or varying (didn't understand that part very well) IP address which makes me appear as a "shady" abusive downloader, assigning me a *very* low priority and small quota. (or something like that).
In that way, although not formally forbidden or blocked, Torrents become a pain in the ***.
Try to find a way around this, because this is a great service to us all.

[dai h.]

FWIW, it comes up if you enter "schematic heaven" into the search bar. An alternative is to use those "cyberlocker" sites (Rapidshare, Mediafire, megashares, fileserve, etc.) The "wayback machine" (internet archive site) could be another source for the files.

[jmaf]

Oh sh*t !! (sorry)
Don't know if it might work this way, no Web expert at all, but can't it be divided into bite-size chunks (say, a 20Mb Fender schematics "pack", and so on) and linked to some EMule servers or shared throuh the EMule net?
I fear that *HUGE* data depositories are frowned upon, and in many Countries, including my own, Torrents are blocked by ISP providers.
Oi, JMAF, eles até podem ter feito o mesmo com você.
Sad but true.
In Argentina they were challenged by a Consumer Rights organization; their answer was to comply ... on the surface ... but they now use 2 tricks:
1) they let pass freely the first few Mb, after 15 minutes they start to slow down, after an hour it crawls, if you let a download overnight, you find little more than 8 hours ago.
2) they pass all Torrent links in a huge area, through the same server, with the same (assigned by them) IP address.
In that way, it appears to be an incredibly voracious single user, and traffic chokes all day long.
A variant of this, (it happened to me personally, as checked by a friend) , is that my demands do not appear with my real IP address, but with a generic or varying (didn't understand that part very well) IP address which makes me appear as a "shady" abusive downloader, assigning me a *very* low priority and small quota. (or something like that).
In that way, although not formally forbidden or blocked, Torrents become a pain in the ***.
Try to find a way around this, because this is a great service to us all.

Hi, JM Fahey, thanks for the reply. This is the first time I've ever shared a torrent, so I might have messed up somewhere. The forums on The Pirate Bay have not replied yet, I'm in there on their help section. But yes, it might be some penalty for doing something not well seen...

I didn't know that they might block big chunks, indeed I made it one big ZIP file...perhaps I can split it up.

Here's a link to the Torrent file, I've never tried sharing a torrent directly, but I guess it might work: http://valvulados.com.br/schematics/...orrent.torrent

Please let me know if it works for you.

About what they do on the ISPs in Argentina, the same happens here. They sell me a fast connection, but they do "traffic shaping", or something like that, to slow down a certain kind of data flow such as excessive downloads, torrents, etc... I noticed that after a certain time, they slow my connection down to a crawl, then it stays like that for days, then it comes back...

The other technique you mention, NAT(network address translation) also happens here. They gobble a bunch of folks up into one IP, or a small range of IP's, so the other party sees one or a few hosts really hammering them, when it's half a country.... They do that for control, so they can monitor all traffic, shape it, block it if they want, etc. Like "The Big Firewall of China"...

Saludos, JMAF

Edit: I just tried downloading it from myself from another PC and it worked...if anyone else tries, please let me know if you have success with it:

http://valvulados.com.br/schematics/...orrent.torrent