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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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