generate RSS feed of BitTorrent magnet links for entries in the Archive

[jywarren]

then use something like Miro... wikipedia:

Specifically, Juice and Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player) support automatic processing of .torrent files from RSS feeds. Similarly, some BitTorrent clients, such as µTorrent, are able to process web feeds and automatically download content found within them.

so we set up µTorrent and subscribe it...

[mathewlippincott]

Is this to save on bandwidth costs through torrent distribution?

[jywarren]

this is just a note on how we might implement some of the ideas in the Data
KNC -- for distributed backup.

For example, if people wanted to upload a large dataset to the "grassroots
cloud" they could just open it in BitTorrent, make a magnet link, and enter
it in a form on PublicLaboratory.org, and everyone else in the peering
network would "see" it automatically via a special RSS feed and start
bittorrenting it, including our main server.

we could of course make a website to upload to directly too... or a tiny
simple wrapper around uTorrent people can download to start seeding their
data. We'd have to test this out a bit.

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:17 PM, mathew lippincott <
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Is this to save on bandwidth costs through torrent distribution?

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[rjcorwin]

w00t! +1 for torrent exploration.

[jywarren]

they could be tagged, and you could subscribe to certain regional tags
only, like gulf-coast, to backup only local archives.

i believe apps like Miro will delete old files. uTorrent probably not - but
it begs the question of what to do when you run out of disk space on a peer
node.

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w00t! +1 for torrent exploration.

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