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15 March 2004   

 

Wired News: Speed Meets Feed in Download Tool

"A radio tool merges two of this season's hottest tech fads -- RSS news syndication and BitTorrent file sharing -- to create a cheap publishing system for what its author calls "big media objects." The hybrid system is meant to eliminate both the publisher's need for fat bandwidth, and the consumer's need to wait through a grueling download."

I've started to use this, and this morning I've a load of new songs to play in my mp3 player, but just as easily I could have had (assuming they were available ;-) a ripped DVD of Lord of the Flies. Or, I could have sent videos of my kids to their grandparents, without them having to click and wait, perhaps days to download. This way, they just subscribe to a feed, and (depending on how they've set up their preferences) they could be watching them the next morning.


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