RSS And BitTorrent, Together At Last

eoyount writes "Wired has an interesting story about a really simple idea I wish I had thought of. Transferring large files across the Internet isn't easy for your average joe, but a combination of RSS and BitTorrent technology might just make it easier - Slashdot ran a previous story on the theoretical blending last year." (LegalTorrents is run by the strangely familiar simoniker, who wrote a short piece on the O'Reilly Network about how it was set up, and offers observations on how well the combination fares.) Update: 03/17 21:45 GMT by T : Ernest Miller submits two related postings he's written on RSS+BitTorrent, a combination he calls "broadcatching."

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Re:Although it's cool...

[bill_mcgonigle]

Yay for technical advances, but can commercial interests fully embrace it without killing the "evils" of it?

BitTorrent would have been embraced by the old non-profit internet. It nicely distributes load around the net.

What the ISP's probably think at this time is, "Oh, I'm Comcast, I might be paying for bandwidth for a Speakeasy user". So they hate it.

What if (or does it?) BitTorrent could map network hops for selecting partners. Then Comcast users would serve Comcast users preferentially and Comcast would actually save money on bandwidth. Then they'd love it.