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Blog Torrent Beta Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the certain-people-are-nervous dept.

chatooya writes "Downhill Battle has released the first public preview of Blog Torrent a "simplified" BitTorrent package that they developed because, "Making it easy to blog large video files means that people can share their home movies the same way they share their photos or writings." Features include: integrated torrent creation and upload, simple non-MySQL installation, and an RSS feed for every tracker. Currently Windows only on the client side, but Mac and Linux versions are in the works."

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  1. sounds like a cool idea but by Ckwop · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Would you host a torrent for someone else's blog? I dunno, sharing a torrent for a music album or a linux distro is a bit different to someones home movie.

    I'd love to see it take off but I'm yet to be convinced.

    Simon.

    1. Re:sounds like a cool idea but by jacksonj04 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I had the same thought - the BitTorrent ideal is that lots of people share the same file. The chances of readerships for blogs with videos (mainly ones read rarely) neing large enough for this to work is slim to none. Especially since the chances of everybody being online at once are even more remote.

      --
      How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
    2. Re:sounds like a cool idea but by Champaign · · Score: 5, Insightful
      I probably wouldn't, but I'd certain be willing (forced) to share with others AS I downloaded it. This would certainly be useful.

      Plus it lets the blog owner use their home connection bandwidth instead of their blog/server bandwidth...

    3. Re:sounds like a cool idea but by realdpk · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Not quite +5. He thinks that this will, somehow, ruin BitTorrent? Maybe +3 Reactionary?

    4. Re:sounds like a cool idea but by realdpk · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The USENET and movie examples are somewhat different however, in that with both you have the washed and unwashed masses together in one "room" (heh). With BitTorrent there are no rooms, every BitTorrent installation is independant, so one person throwing up a BT of their home videos (porn, likely) doesn't detract from someone else using it to grab ISOs.

      On the other point, I guess I haven't had to search for torrents before. If it's something that the server operators would benefit from having a torrent, it's something announced somewhere big like Slashdot. Otherwise you're just downloading the whole file from them anyways, typically.

  2. How can this work on a small scale? by Fluidic+Binary · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If bittorrent works off many users sharing bandwidth at once, I fail to see how this would help most blogs that don't have huge readerships.

    Any retorts?

    1. Re:How can this work on a small scale? by hackstraw · · Score: 4, Insightful

      If bittorrent works off many users sharing bandwidth at once, I fail to see how this would help most blogs that don't have huge readerships.

      But without p2p, you would have to upload the whole file to a server, tell your friends and family where the file can be downloaded. Which means that you would have server space with very generous bandwidth limits, etc, etc.

      With a torrent, you create the torrent, register it with a tracker, and post on your blog or in an email, and you never have to think about it, nor would you have to wait for the upload to finish first before telling your friends & family.

      This rocks.

    2. Re:How can this work on a small scale? by TrevorB · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Sometimes images become shared between thousands of blog users as the meme of the week.

      For instance, this link has been making the rounds last week:

      http://img40.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img40=feuerfreimo vi e.swf

      You could easily find that link on a thousand LiveJournals. It's not quite slashdotting, but files often get locked out because they're shared on bandwidth limited servers.

      So don't think home movies. Think shared movies. Not the MPAA DivX kind, but more like weebls stuff or mpeg clips of turkeys attacking George Bush's crotch or something... The kind of thing that's embedded in a page.

  3. LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now non-Mysql has become a feature? Just some years ago every project bragged about supporting MySQL! ;)

    1. Re:LOL by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Supporting MySQL is great. Requiring MySQL sucks, as most users don't have it installed, let alone configured, and automated install scripts are notoriously good at messing up complex servers' config files anyway...

      --
      "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  4. Bit Torrent? Goodbye .edu! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sounds like a great way for startup blogs to loose the big collegiate market. Most campuses block Bit Torrent these days.

  5. Re:Evolution... by Iron+Clad+Burrito · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So sayeth a guy with his own website.

    Blogs are no different from what you have up ("I like shakespeare, I'm a geek, here's stull I think is funny..."). The ONLY difference is that bloggers use software.

    Basically, if you have a webpage with info about you, you can't say squat about weblogs.