Next key issue to consider: efficient distribution of "seed" media promo materials.
haha nooooo my traffic secret has been exposed based upon a single word SEED, SEED, And get more people to SEED and then SEED some more.
I've had some success with this, its a bit tricky at some points because some torrent sites will remove your listings if its a .rar or .exe file, better safe to go with a .rar with a .nfo files though, people fucking hate .exe and password protected files on the networks.
But it works I'm actually doing a little test with it on a few different things, maybe I'll do a write up soon or later but its sweet when you get the newest releases (Like the DVD quality version of 300 or the new linkin park CD) that is still a month away from coming out in stores.
With those ones I can hit like 1000 seeders sometimes, this is great because with more seeders means more leachers, their will always be more leachers but with Seeders they are helping spread your file around a lot quicker and more people come to download it.
So the key as $5 Submissions has kindly pointed out is to get more people to SEED your file so it'll be downloaded by the leachers quicker, and as I said if you stick with .nfo and .rar files over .exe files you'll do much better, its just the way people trust shit now a days.
But another problem that I find about doing this is the problem with .rar files with movies, more people are stopping downloading .rar files with movies because of the flood of passwords that don't work, music files still seem to do awesome but its kick ass people like aXXo who upload the quality DVD versions without it being compressed and no passwords which make people trust .rar files less and less because they know they can easily get the real version if its not a .rar file.
Plus a movie file runs you like 700 MB as a new music CD only runs you around 100 MB, your able to get seeders quicker but again with a .rar file you'll get commentors saying hey does this have a password or others posting your password so that also sucks ass, umm ok this post is getting long but one very last point is if you can also get one commentor who downloaded the file to say "Its real and kicks ass" without posting the files password then your seeders and leachers will quickly go up.
Its a pretty sweet viral marketing technique if you know how to avoid your networks TOS or the various other copywrite laws floating around.