Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your TV Articles / Software Posted by rampy on Jun 21, 2004 - 10:13 AM Slashdot article Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your TV [1]. Torrentocracy [2] is a MythTV "plugin" that uses bittorrent aggregation sites RSS feeds. For the unititiated BitTorrent is a very cool decentralized P2P system that supports getting different parts of a file from different sources concurrently which makes for speedy downloads for popular files. RSS (real simple syndication) is a method of syndicating/parsing site content easily. For example we use RSS to get the latest stories from Matt's PVRBlog [3] automagically (look on your left under main menu/login) from his XML/RSS feed. You can even syndicate BYOPVR via our RSS feed [4] Recently someone combined the two memes to make a great way of distributing the bittorrent seeds (how each file/node is identified kinda like kazaa/edonkey hashes... sorta) This new MythTV plugin torrentocracy allows you to surf for the latest filez/torrents out there and initiate a download with a flick of your remote. How cool is that? Not that I advocate distribution of copyrighted material, but one can see how having bit torrent potential so close to your collection of PVR'd programming could lead to a "mesh" network of programming between peoples MythTV boxen... That'd be mighty cool homebrew on demand TV =) This article is from Build Your Own PVR   http://www.byopvr.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.byopvr.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=85 Links in this article   [1] http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/21/0150243&mode=flat&tid=149&tid=99   [2] http://www.torrentocracy.com/   [3] http://www.pvrblog.com   [4] http://www.byopvr.com/backend.php