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17Mar/04

RSS and BitTorrent

One of the issues of finding legal BitTorrent files is a way of sharing the seed files. Someone has finally brought up the idea, and put it into practice. The idea is have a RSS feed of legal bittorrent feeds (because alot of initial use was for non-legal uses). These articles talk about how musicians would be able to provide links to their music. I also found out a company that I'm doing a beta for is utilizing BitTorrent as a way to agregate the 2.3 Gig filedownload for their product. Interesting technology. But it has some limits... for me its unusable because it so floods my uplink, that i can no longer do anything else with my machine until its done downloading. Not very friendly. But the idea of utilizing RSS to share the seed files is something that is going to continue to evolve.



Slashdot.org - Initial link that led me to all of this.

Wired.com - Using RSS + BitTorrent to get public domain music

OReilly - Their write up on the topic.

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