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Just to clarify, Prodigem comes with a torrent feed for each user. So once all your enclosures have been converted to .torrents, you can provide people with your new feed. For example, http://www.prodigem.com/torrents/rss/pep_delicious .xml

PEP is less than 400 lines of PHP. Here's the source code for the curious:
http://prodigem.com/code/pep/pep.txt

(from the PEP home page)

Prodigem is also in this space, uses BitTorrent and is ready for use right now. No DRM and no tie-down to Windows Media Player. Gary

Make money from Bit Torrent?... hmmm, Prodigem. Why slashdot hasn't picked up on our new ability to sell access to torrents baffles me.

For any decent piece of content produced somebody is going to have to dedicate some time and resources to it. To do this in a steady stream it will require a near full time effort. Since the basis of P2P is going to be to distribute it free it will be very hard to get a DRM model to work. They could however come up with an ad supported system to make it equitable. I guess my only question is, would the community using this type of software be willing to accept that? Time will tell I guess. I do see this as a trend of companies like Brightcove, Prodigem and Akimbo emerging to fill this new demand. It will be interesting to see what business models play out.

you said "what we need is more competition". How do you think this is going to happen?

Here's the problem: our country's broadband infrastructure is owned and operated by a couple of corporations who own all the pipes to people's homes. I don't have a problem with corporations building out infrastructure and seeking to make a very lucrative buck off of it. This is what they do. This is free enterprise. Free enterprise is a good thing. Making money is a good thing. However, and understandably enough, local governments just handed them out permits to dig in our streets to lay their pipes without any attempt to negotiate a future "pipe-sharing" plan with supporting infrastructure for competing businesses to offer content/services/data over those pipes, after they'd recouped their costs and made profits to the tune of $X amount, or after Y years of sole operation and ownership. At the time, we didn't really think in terms of data. Fair enough.

We are at a turning point in history, where we now have the ability to change this.

Contrary to what the incumbents would have us believe, municipality-driven broadband infrastructure would, in my opinion, become the ultimate enabler of free enterprise from the private sector in data, media, and communication SERVICES.

Municipality-driven WiFi is just ONE step in an overall encouraging direction.

Municipality-built broadband infrastructures, beyond providing the ability for said municipality to provide very basic connectivity for free or cheap to its constituents, also provides an opportunity to welcome the private sector to compete on an equal footing. The infrastructure must simply be allowed to evolve to allow for mostly automated ways to "share the pipe".

A WiFi system can be easily extended to enable such sharing. So could a fiber-optic network.

Consider today's "sharing" alternatives in the DSL field: it's bleak. My only real DSL alternative is my local Telco, Verizon. Thankfully, I'm able to get service from EarthLink at about the same price point as Verizon, and instead of getting mere connectivity with the insanely useless MSN premium package, i get stuff i actually find useful, such as Mac OS X Address Book synching with my earthlink online address book, which is tied into the challenge-response-based spam filtering. But here's the problem though, while EarthLink is competing on services, it can't compete with Verizon on speed, because they're only able to resell Verizon's DSL connectivity to me, and from what i've heard, we ain't looking at a big margin here.

I want hundreds of EarthLink's competing on both speed and services.

In the case of Muni WiFi, I could for example get free basic connectivity throttled at lower speeds from the City, with no-other services, and justify spending money with fine services such as knowspam.net to protect myself from spam, flickr.com for photo sharing, TypePad for blogging, Rojo.com for news reading, Prodigem.com for Torrents creating/seeding, .Mac for reliable WEBDAV hosting, some packaged-deal from EarthLink, and/or hundreds of cheap services which may be useful TO ME. There's a lot of innovation on the Internet, many of those innovators are struggling to find sustainable revenue models.

Such a broadband scene will also open the doors to triple-play packages: data, media, communications over a single pipe. Many competitors, the best few ones would win, the customer wins.

Right now, in my area, Verizon and Adelphia are the big winners. I, as a consumer, am not. As far as i'm concerned, these fsckers have no business offering internet services, what the fuck do they know abo

Prodigem is a service I've been running since December that allows you to upload content and have my server as a permaseed. It's currently free. Hmm, I submitted it as a slashdot story a couple weeks ago and it got rejected. Check it out regardless. The tracker is chock-full of creative commons goodness.

I've set-up a torrent you can get here. It's got the 4 videos. A couple of us are seeding it right now. Please help.