BroadCatching
For this week’s How-To we’re going to show you how you can use RSS and BitTorrent to find and download your favorite shows, automatically, using free software.
I’ve never been a big downloader for MP3s or other media through the slew of P2P networks that are out there, but I found this Engadget posting of finding recorded TV shows to download via RSS feeds to be a really cool idea. I’m sure that all the cool kids have been doing this for a while, but automatic searching of published file lists for download and later perusal is a really cool combination of technologies.
My DirecTivo is still working great for me so I have no need or desire (or time) to set something like this up, but it seems to me like another step down the path to a completely digital world, but driven by technology hackers instead of the major corporations (who, as usual, are just trying to catch up).
