Filesharing Review > TV via Bittorrent

[Tom on Identity] David Berlind over at ZD Net has posted a story on the recent release of TVTAD, a program that lets you subscribe to bittorrent RSS feeds, allowing you to automatically download TV shows as they are released onto the bittorrent networks.

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

Ted's Radio Weblog Ted's Radio Weblog: I finished writing it yesterday after David Berlind published three excellent pieces, which I highly recommend reading, and acting upon. For guidance during the rest of this thing (whether they knew it or not), I also want to thank David Weinberger, Dave Winer, Steve Gillmor (via Cosmos)

The Doc Searls Weblog : Thursday, November 17, 2005 The Doc Searls Weblog : Thursday, November 17, 2005: I've spent much of the last two weeks writing an essay that just went up at Linux Journal: Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes. It's probably the longest post I've ever put up on the Web. (via Cosmos)

Geek News Central Revealing Links & Useful Technical Informationhttp://www.geeknewscentral.com [Geek News Central Revealing Links & Useful Technical Information] Automatically get TV shows on your PC via RSS and BitTorrent: Well someone has figured out how to allow people to subscribe to their favorite TV shows via RSS and then when someone puts up the program on the Net you get the file automatically through BitTorrent. This is important, who important well lets put it this way you have just cut out all of the middle men that planned to get into this type of distribution.

[Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2] ZDNet: The DRM Grinch That Stole Christmas: as an RSS feed."  In other words, once a TV show is digitized and loaded into Bittorrent, not only are the broadcasters completely disintermediated from the distribution of their content, so too is their adverstising business model. 

Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant: TiVo + BitTorrent = TVTAD. (And if you’re an open source geek, there’s this alternative.) (via Cosmos)

Mostly Muppet Dot Comhttp://www.mostlymuppet.com [Mostly Muppet Dot Com] Downloadable TV: Enter TVTAD, “TV via RSS” as Steve Rubel says. All true and all with the same kind of legality that drove the music industry nuts.

[Lb.viks.org] V’s Link & Photo Blog » BitTorrent, TV, RSS and Web 2.0 marry!: Because he loves to shoot first”¦ BitTorrent, TV, RSS and Web 2.0 marry! posted on November 12, 2005 in General .

Jonsthoughtsoneverything.comhttp://jonsthoughtsoneverything.com [Jonsthoughtsoneverything.com] Jon’s Thoughts On Everything » RSS + Bittorrent + Xbmc == Bliss: 3 300 GB Seagate drives, about 300 movies on there now and seinfeld and friends dvd seasons :) One problem with XBMC is that dvds with menus seem to crash it a lot… so I need to rip the movie after download it again and only have the movie without any extras that works perfectly…

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