#bittorrent

At its core, What.CD was much more than a torrent tracker—it was a community of dedicated music fans volunteering their time, effort, and knowledge to create a labor of love. While the internet has opened up new doors for musicians, the increasing corporatization and algorithmic takeover of online spaces has done irreparable damage to organic music discovery and independent communities. Rather than bringing about the financial stability that was supposedly impeded by piracy, the recording industry has offered meager artist payouts and a product with a sterilized user interface. Nearly ten years since their unexpected goodbye, the magical feeling of logging in to What.CD has yet to be replicated by any streaming service. Though my days of stealing music are well in the past, it’s clear that musicians are still being stolen from.

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It begs the question why every author, filmmaker, and musician isn’t up in arms about the New York Public Library’s rampant sharing, while there’s a ton of opposition to the sharing habits of BitTorrent peers who use The Pirate Bay. After all, The Pirate Bay’s community shares significantly less than the New York Public Library: just 1 million items in 2008 (and the collection certainly hasn’t grown 5000% since then). The reason that The Pirate Bay is offensive, and the New York Public Library is not, is because of its efficiency.

It begs the question why every author, filmmaker, and musician isn’t up in arms about the New York Public Library’s rampant sharing, while there’s a ton of opposition to the sharing habits of BitTorrent peers who use The Pirate Bay. After all, The Pirate Bay’s community shares significantly less than the New York Public Library: just 1 million items in 2008 (and the collection certainly hasn’t grown 5000% since then). The reason that The Pirate Bay is offensive, and the New York Public Library is not, is because of its efficiency.

With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we're going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war.

During the last year Netflix managed to outgrow BitTorrent in terms of the amount of US Internet traffic it generates. A promising finding for Hollywood as it shows that there’s an overwhelming interest for the legal movie streaming service. At TorrentFreak we wondered what might happen if all US BitTorrent users made the switch to Netflix, and the results of this exploration are quite intriguing.

Automatic allows you to set up subscriptions for virtually any content linked in RSS feeds: podcasts, videocasts, torrentcasts... Rule of thumb: if it ends in '-cast', you can get it with Automatic.

"You won't be happy until they actually enforce a cap on all of us, will you? "

"Clutch is a WebUI for the Transmission BitTorrent client. It allows you to manage your torrents from anywhere you can access the internet, and runs on OS X and various flavors of *nix."

"Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client."

Not that I downloaded it from here, but maybe a good backup distribution channel while inrainbows.com is flooded out. Nothing stopping you from paying later

"For those of you who want to obtain the ENTIRE archive, and I'm not just talking the same old 13GB torrents we had up in the test phase of 2005 and 2006, but the ENTIRE 29GB of compressed modules!"

"In a statement, Cohen said: "I look forward to spearheading the continued development of BitTorrent." Which you may read as: "The blogosphere can blow it out of their collective ass.""

"it has a BitTorrent client that can rip down 7 streams automatically"

"TorrentFlux is a FREE PHP based Torrent client that runs on a web server. Manage all of your Torrent downloads through a convenient web interface from anywhere."

"The Azureus Dashboard Widget provides a compact, friendly interface for monitoring and managing BitTorrent downloads."

"today we’re without cable again, but not because we can’t afford it."

"iTorrent allows you to download BitTorrent podcasts from iTunes."

"Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web."

"This proposition brought us so much sh*t that it had to be continued on the next fan." Almost shockingly frank discussion of the BBC and BitTorrent - funny too.

"Download and watch all the best internet TV shows and videos in one powerful application."

"I wanted to take a second and explain exactly how I’m using RSS and Bittorrent to download the television shows I watch, otherwise known as broadcatching."

Seems like a lot of work for something that'll probably just get squashed. But maybe it's a good view of the future?

"Update: I am now seeding the Bittorrent from my laptop and blogging about it while sitting on the toilet. How Web 2.0!"

"Using their RSS feed for popular videos, Prodigem now automatically torrents the most popular videos on the web as decided by the del.icio.us folksonomy."

mIRC plugin which generates an RSS feed from IRC channel traffic, intended for use with a Bittorrent broadcatcher like Azureus.

"BitTorrent has released a 'trackerless' version of BitTorrent in a new release."

“You mean on the Internets? Where?”

"Simple parser for bittorrent rss feeds to automatically queue torrent files for download (typically for btlaunchmany.py) as a subscription engine." No need for Radio UserLand. This is basically what I've been using, only this one's been released. :)

"Merge Mark Pilgrim's Ultra Liberal RSS Feedparser with Bittorrent." Actually, I'm probably only a dozen or so lines of code away from this and have been considering it for awhile...