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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. 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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Well, theoretically the overhead of bittorrent is not much higher than that of simply running an FTP server (assuming the tracker server is also seeding the file, which would be necessary in this situation). So, if only one person is downloading the file, then it would be better to just run an FTP server. but, as soon as a second person joins the torrent, the first person starts uploading to them, offloading some of the bandwidth burden from the tracker server.

      pretty simple

  2. Application? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only real use of this, is of course for the amateur porn blogs. Then it's a killer app!

  3. just what i was looking for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I made a bunch of home movies with my wife on my honeymoon, now i finally have a way to share with the world how lucky and well endowed i am!

  4. 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...

  5. THTTP by areve · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've wondered about Torrent being an extension to to the http protocol for surfing the web. I wouldn't expect it to happen but if our web browser would just get data from the nearest node instead of the original site then the slashdot effect would be a positive one increasing your sites bandwidth not a negative one.