Wired reports:
Is there a way to publish videos, games and other enormous files online without breaking the bank on bandwidth fees or driving downloaders mad with delays? A demo publishing system launched Friday by a popular programmer and blogger 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. Andrew Grumet, a freelance Web consultant, posted instructions for his demo system on his weblog. Grumet's demo consists of one small piece of software: an upgrade for the Radio RSS reader that enables it to use BitTorrent to automatically download enormous files -- in the case of Grumet's demo, a set of public-domain music recordings listed on the LegalTorrents website."The idea is that the files you subscribe to download overnight, so you get on your computer in the morning, and they're already there," said Grumet, whose background includes a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, plus a stint at now-defunct Web development firm ArsDigita. I could wake up in the morning and find the latest recordings from my favorite band loaded into my portable MP3 player, and just pick it up and go."
... According to Grumet, an RSS feed of one's favorite bands, actors, shows, games or other "big media objects" could be kept up-to-date on a computer desktop for daily perusal, rather than forcing music and movie fans to suffer the "click and wait" delay associated with downloading huge files on demand.
