[blu] torrentTV

[bbj at innismir.net (Ben Jackson)]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Eric wrote:

> Just about every torrent I see on the net is definitely illegal.  It
> would be nice to see an independent news or movie producer use this
> stuff right.  Is this realistic?  Is somebody doing it and I just
> haven't stumbled across them yet?

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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