RSS And BitTorrent, Together At Last

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday March 17, 2004 @05:34AM from the oh-calculon dept.

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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If file transfer is hard for the average Joe... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-17 05:38 · Score: 4, Funny

...combining RSS and torrents is not going to solve the problem. This is the most complicated solution to a non-problem that I've seen since someone paid me to design something.
Almost Nirvana by sleepingsquirrel · 2004-03-17 06:27 · Score: 2, Funny

One step closer to Nirvana. Bittorrent + RSS + gentoo emerge --update world. Or how about something that uses software-suspend to automagically hot-swap in the latest bleeding edge kernel? Maybe the Hurd allows on-the-fly kernel upgrades.