[opendtv] Re: IP-Based TV Will Revolutionize Entertainment
- From: Kon Wilms <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:12:23 -0700
On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 01:52 +0200, Venki Iyer wrote:
> non-RSS, take your pick) editor/writer trying to describe what can and
> is being done with RSS (which uses XML) and IP-based protocols (like
> BT, for example). I mean, the kenosis (sp?) guys showed
> you can do a torrent over xmlrpc, right?=20
Indeed. Many bittorrent trackers are already being indexed to RSS feeds,
and thus later selected by users for mining with regular expressions in
their RSS parsers. Result - pick your feeds, pick your keywords, and
files are automatically downloaded whenever you get a match. Azureus and
other open source applications implement this.
The problem however is that 99.9% of the material on the originating
trackers is illegal, and thats where the whole system falls apart and
loses any hope of legitimacy.
However, what if these were legalized, and some sort of DRM used to
secure the files. A user could create a collection of source feeds with
his/her keywords, and use a spending limit and preference queue for
automatic billing. Now there's a use for a broadband pipe. Plus the
whole fact that it is automated means that you can keep the torrent
running for x amount of time in order to keep the network optimally
seeded - vs. the current problems of users cutting off when they have
finished downloading, which is detrimental to the net bandwidth.
One problem with this idea though is that the whole point of torrents
+RSS is aggregation of content from many different sources. How many
studios and service providers would like to lose a $ because it went to
a different provider in the user's queue? Until they get over this issue
none of these systems will ever work optimally. Unless someone decides
to be a man in the middle and create RSS feeds and a automatic billing
management system with hooks into service providers like MovieLink, that
is...
All of the above isn't really related to IPTV in the strictest sense
though (IPTV is walled garden single-service-provider on a private
network by my definitions book). Maybe ITV (Internet TV) or such would
be a better term. And RSS+BT seems to have been coined BroadCatching -
for the time being at least. :-)
Cheers
Kon
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