<div><a href="http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/">BitTorrent</a> would be an awesome way of distributing <a href="http://www.thetwowayweb.com/payloadsforrss">RSS enclosures</a>.  Someone posts a large file, and all the clients that are configured to retrieve it start working together to retrieve it in an incredibly efficient manner.</div> <div> </div> <div>One of the problems with RSS is that it won't scale - if my weblog suddenly becomes popular enough that ten thousand people subscribe to it, that would pretty much kill my internet connection (10k people's aggregators polling every 15 minutes).</div> <div> </div> <div>Imagine I had those 10k users and I included a 1 meg RSS enclosure.  There goes my 10 gig file transfer limit for the month.</div> <div> </div> <div>But with BitTorrent, I'd use a fraction of that, because those 10 thousand aggregators would work together (using the BitTorrent protocol) to share the load.</div> <div> </div>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:04 GMT