A record attempt has been started invoving bittorrent, to see just how many seeds can be on one torrent. The current record for simultanious seeds on a torrent is around 124,000, set for an episode of Heroes. The attempt uses a small image file for the contents, and already has a decent number of seeds.

The record attempt was started just after midnight UK time, on July 1st (approx 1 hour ago, at time of writing) and hopes to reach it’s target within a week. Graham, who came up with the attempt, was curious as to just how big a swarm could get, as well as for the main reason of records – to have the person responsible immortalised, even if only briefly, and the initial advertisment was via the UK Pirate Party IRC channel.

[19:08.41] <Jigsy> Anyone interested in a little brainchild of mine?

[19:09.16] <Jigsy> http://jigsy.ath.cx/World_Record_For_Most_Seeds_[28A493EE].jpg.torrent

[19:09.19] <Jigsy> Download, seed, that’s it

(Times in US Eastern).

The content can be downloaded from the above link, or by using this Magnet URI

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:HPKGEHD2RDJBLIWIXKJ42HWUSQBUDVTX&dn=World_Record_For_Most_Seeds_[28A493EE].jpg&tr=http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announce

(requires utorrent or similar, will not work with Vuze – If you need some help using a magnet URI, then watch this video)

I’ll keep you posted on how it’s going.

UPDATE 8pm EDT: The Torrent file now has some mirrors as well, see the comments for details.