Mac Guide to Torrent TV
Check out this visual guide for downloading TV torrents to your Mac, entitled "The Poor Man's TiVo." Pretty sweet. Very easy.The networks need to start enabling net distribution of their shows via torrent. There is clearly a market for this service, legality issues be damned, and it wouldn't be hard to subsidize the endeavor with advertising on the website and in the video files. For more on how smart this would be for the networks, read this.
Imagine: instead of setting your PVR to record your shows, set your Mac mini to automatically download your favorite shows. I don't know if Bittorrent for OS X (the program covered in the tutorial) supports such automation, but there is a plug-in for Azureus, RSS Import, that can be set to automatically check RSS feeds and download the relevant files. Actually, forget imagining. You can do this right now.
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Chris said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
The problem with all this is getting busted. I had my service shut off for grabbing a show once. I think it was mgm or paramount. they sent a nasty gram to my provider and my provider flipped the switch until I called and talked to them. fortunately my provider turned things back on but had me swear on a stack of bibles not to be naughty again.
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ciaran said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
I have tried to access the link via work and it had been blocked by "scan safe" as been a porno site. strange...
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Small Paul said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Ah, but don't tv studios make huge margins on DVDs or something? Imagine the risk of selling torrents. They'll never do it.
I wish they would, but I don't see it happening for years.
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