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Bridging Torrent and RSS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the working-out-the-kinks dept.

lerhaupt writes "PEP, the Prodigem Enclosure Puller, is a small php script which find all the enclosures in an RSS 2.0 feed URL, and utilizing Prodigem's new bittorrent API will have a torrent created and seeded for each. As an example of just what this exactly means, Prodigem is now using PEP to automatically torrent the top items found in the del.icio.us popular video feed. In general this now means distribution via bittorrent can be had with almost zero work or duplication of effort."

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  1. Hmm... by FlyByPC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Automatically-downloaded RSS, distributed over the Net;

    Automatically-initiated Bittorrent downloads;

    ...Is it just me, or with the addition of a few local scripts, does this sound like a virus-writer's favorite fantasy? They need to make sure there are some very good safeguards on this!

    Then again, with Genetic Algorithms, perhaps this is the next missing ingredient for cybersentient life...

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  2. Just another pollutant by rahlquist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Much like breathing outside, having scripted automatic downloads of 'anything' in a feed isnt a great idea IMNSHO. Sounds like walking out the front door and having the exhaust from a diesel blown in my fact just because I said I liked trucks.....

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    1. Re:Just another pollutant by Skye16 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Sure, for everyone who isn't behind a strict firewall.

      :(

    2. Re:Just another pollutant by Bogtha · · Score: 3, Insightful

      having scripted automatic downloads of 'anything' in a feed isnt a great idea IMNSHO.

      Did it ever occur to you that feeds themselves are scripted automatic downloads?

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  3. EPIC 2014 by USSJoin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This, IMHO, totally rocks. Seriously: the computer now handles its own slashdot effect, intelligently. Truly, this allows for media-centric societies (like EPIC 2014) to be propogated; when we don't get that "Too many connections, MySQL fails miserably" message with popular content (even on normally-unpopular webpages), we are able to much more quickly diseminate information of interest to all of us.

    Kudos to the developers; I, for one, am impressed.

  4. I would like to envision a future internet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ... where virtually _all_ content that is viewable on the web is distributed in the same manner as bittorrent content - where your web browser shares all content (including images, and any other embedded objects that may display, such as video or audio [with the exception of realtime live streams]) that is on the web page(s) that the browser is open to (usually uploading the whole time the reader is spending viewing the page). Browsers would contact the server to initially request the page, and then contact other peers to download the actual content.

    It would completely eliminate the slashdot effect, would likely have the general positive effect of improving people's download speeds, and would have the upshot of making it impossible for any leglislating body to make software like bittorrent illegal without making the internet itself illegal.