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[blu] torrentTV



I haven't seen anything other than Seattle WirelessTV, and TheBroken
(kevin roses thing).  But I have seen just about every tv show on a
torrent.. www.suprnova.org and you can download complete seaons of all
sorts of stuff.

-miah

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:57:08AM -0400, Ben Jackson wrote:
> Indeed. BT is used for a lot of 'independent' TV shows. I've seen it
> become most prevelent in the h at x0r community with their h at x0r TV shows
> (Think Kevin Rose form TechTV, only better [usually]).
> 
> Right now, the shows are very tech orientated, but I think this is mostly
> because its still kind of bleeding edge and the technoweenies are usually
> the first to pick it up. I see that in a year or two, there will more
> amateur TV shows available, and it will probably be taking similar route
> to Shoutcase/Icecast streams. Why? Because human beings love to hear
> themselves talk. :)
> 
> One of the things that really made me go "What a great idea"  was
> when someone wrote a Plugin to  MythTV that automagically grabbed shows
> via BT) distrubted in a RSS feed (or something like that), so you had show
> sitting on your PVR every day/week/whatever. Now that could really set up
> an underground network.
> 
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> 
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > - --
> > - -Eric
> > http://caffeinated.homelinux.net/
> > "We don't know if he's an underdeveloped
> > human or a brilliant beast."
> > - - Some Simpsons episode the other day.
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
> > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
> >
> > iD8DBQFBY/LYAq8dQKtRCO4RAjTcAJ0dhyF01xyZ6nUKw2QCRy36lhqixACgymyv
> > oDZMi4Bod68tgQ2dW9Ua5c8=
> > =UMiS
> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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