<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item><title>Podcast bandwidth</title><description>Alleviating the podcast bandwidth crunch can be done using an existing peer to peer mechanism that's proven its ability to massively distribute data for the last 20 or so years.. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Usenet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It'd be easy to do too:&lt;br&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Add NNTP to a podcast publishing tool.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use the Message-ID of the message in the RSS enclosure.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Add NNTP to a podcast downloading tool.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;And that's it; no more bandwidth worries!&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you don't think Usenet can handle the load, take a look at the stuff that's flowing around Usenet now.&amp;nbsp; Podcasts would be a drop in the bucket.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:09 GMT</pubDate></item>