BlogTorrent

BlogTorrent is software designed to,

. . . make it much easier to share and download files using the bittorrent protocol. . . . Blog Torrent is easy for users: even if they don’t know what bittorrent is, they get an installer that downloads the file they want. But most of all, Blog Torrent makes publishing with bittorrent painless. Just click “upload”, pick a file, and you’re done. This is our preview release and it has a lot of bugs and rough edges… but we’re smoothing them out for the next version, so stay tuned.

The obvious use for this would be for distributing large video files without having to worry about bandwidth charges or having downloaders cripple your webserver.

The other cool thing about this is, if it is widely used, it is another nail in the coffin of efforts by the RIAA/MPAA to ban all P2P networks. This is the sort of non-infringing use that would once and for all illustrate the sort of potential that P2P networks have for things other than pirating movies and music.

Now if I could just figure out how to get BitTorrent to work behind my LinkSys router.

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