Editing BitTorrent (section)

=== RSS feeds ===
{{Main|Broadcatching}}

A technique called [[broadcatching]] combines [[RSS (file format)|RSS]] feeds with the BitTorrent protocol to create a content delivery system, further simplifying and automating content distribution. Steve Gillmor explained the concept in a column for [[Ziff-Davis]] in December 2003.<ref>Gillmor, Steve (13 December 2003). {{cite web |url=http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/BitTorrent-and-RSS-Create-Disruptive-Revolution/ |title=BitTorrent and RSS Create Disruptive Revolution |date=14 December 2003 |publisher=EWeek.com |access-date=22 April 2007 }}</ref> The discussion spread quickly among bloggers (Ernest Miller,<ref>Miller, Ernest (2 March 2004). {{cite web |url=http://importance.corante.com/archives/002223.html |title=BitTorrent + RSS = The New Broadcast | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131023060205/http://importance.corante.com/archives/002223.html | archive-date = 23 October 2013| url-status=live}}. ''The Importance of...'' Corante.com.</ref> [[Chris Pirillo]], etc.). In an article entitled ''Broadcatching with BitTorrent'', Scott Raymond explained:

{{blockquote|I want RSS feeds of BitTorrent files. A script would periodically check the feed for new items, and use them to start the download. Then, I could find a trusted publisher of an [[Alias (TV Show)|Alias]] RSS feed, and "subscribe" to all new episodes of the show, which would then start downloading automatically&nbsp;– like the "season pass" feature of the [[TiVo]].|Scott Raymond| scottraymond.net<ref>{{cite web|author=Raymond, Scott |url=http://scottraymond.net/archive/4745 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040213093750/http://scottraymond.net/archive/4745 |archive-date=13 February 2004|title=Broadcatching with BitTorrent|publisher=scottraymond.net|date= 16 December 2003}}</ref>}}

The RSS feed will track the content, while BitTorrent ensures content integrity with [[cryptography|cryptographic]] [[Hash function|hashing]] of all data, so feed subscribers will receive uncorrupted content. One of the first and popular software clients ([[free software|free]] and [[open source software|open source]]) for ''broadcatching'' is [[Miro Media Player|Miro]]. Other free software clients such as PenguinTV and KatchTV are also now supporting broadcatching. The BitTorrent web-service MoveDigital added the ability to make torrents available to any web application capable of parsing [[XML]] through its standard [[Representational State Transfer|REST]]-based interface in 2006,<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.movedigital.com/docs/index.php/MoveDigital_API| title=MoveDigital API REST functions| publisher=Move Digital|year=2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060811154118/http://www.movedigital.com/docs/index.php/MoveDigital_API |archive-date=11 August 2006 |access-date=9 May 2006}} Documentation.</ref> though this has since been discontinued. Additionally, Torrenthut is developing a similar torrent [[API]] that will provide the same features, and help bring the torrent community to [[Web 2.0]] standards. Alongside this release is a first [[PHP]] application built using the API called PEP, which will parse any [[Really Simple Syndication]] (RSS 2.0) feed and automatically create and seed a torrent for each enclosure found in that feed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prodigem.com/code/pep/pep.txt | title=Prodigem Enclosure Puller(pep.txt)| publisher=Prodigem.com| format=TXT| access-date=9 May 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060526130219/http://prodigem.com/code/pep/pep.txt |archive-date = 26 May 2006}} via [[Internet Wayback Machine]].</ref><!-- – wi-fizzle unreachable 2007-4-15&nbsp;– found in Google cache&nbsp;– identical to archive.org copy. --Lexein -->