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Norwegian Broadcasting Sets Up Its Own Tracker

Posted by timothy on from the some-things-are-neutral dept.

eirikso writes with an interesting story from Norway; the state broadcaster there has decided to put up some of its content on BitTorrent. "The tracker is based on the same OpenTracker software that the Pirate Bay has been using for the last couple of years. By using BitTorrent we can reach our audience with full quality, unencrypted media files. Experience from our early tests show that if we're the best provider of our own content we also gain control of it."

2 of 187 comments (clear)

  1. Re:And now let's bitch about the CODEC used by EEPROMS · · Score: 0, Troll

    mp4 is actually a very old standard (hardly used these days for torrents), try mkv

  2. Re:And now let's bitch about the CODEC used by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    While on the other hand, I've had more trouble with poorly-formed .mp4 files than I have with .mkv files, and have even resorted at one point to a batch script that converts .mp4 files into .mkv files. True story.

    Isn't anecdotal evidence fun!