what maybe is long time in the learning is bittorrent is about popular

what is not pop is best left on the ftp server aka digital library downloaded 10x per day because bittorrent is uneconomical for low activity releases

is understood you are educated peeps in salary position in the b33b. now help your colleagues pay their mortgages and car loans (cos you all in the slave system right?) by bringing the message to the budget holders that THERE IS NO BUDGET FOR REDUNDANT MATERIAL

giving us “Click” in an inferior format sux

what is the difference between a mosquito and the bbc? the bbc keeps on suxing no matter how many times you slap it …. look at the most recent bbc coverage of TPB trial where a man in a huge long coat and hat going around HMV shoving random movies and CD’s in his pocket

@Ian Forrester

remixing of tv media is an esoteric emergent. you aint gonna get no stats from that and your boss needs feed

the content was dry dude, you are nowhere when you release technobabble. however, release raw pop media aka Glastonbury et ilk and you are so rushed is unseen and the big man in the sky is gonna rain gold on your ass

lol

http://www.youtupe-com-watch-2332-fsdkjfc-1223-11ds.inserat.in

One of the major reasons to do this project is to see where and what happens with the content. I’ve already heard and seen it being watched in non-english speaking territories.

About breaking the stigma. I agree, hopefully we along with others will help establish the technology of bit torrent as here to stay. We’ve already had questions about using Pando and Rapidshare to distribute the media, but I can’t say it enough. Do what you like with the content, its licensed that way for this reason.

Tell us about it and it might make it into updated blog posts we’ll be writing soon

Love the beeb, although not a subject. So, i have to take other means to watch some of your programming on BBC. Torrents currently is the easiest solution. I don’t feel like putting in all the work to make my computer appear to “be” in the U.K. just to watch the T.V.

I certainly hope this turns out to be a fruitful experiment.

Cheers!

clearly bittorrent is the cheapest/quickest way to distribute any type of file to a large number of poeple. there are various software packages out there depending on what type of tracker you want to run (i suggest looking at the following two):

http://xbtt.sourceforge.net/
http://projectgazelle.org/

but if this is just a trial run I really advise using an well established tracker. They’ll have way more visitors than you could possibly get and you’ll end up reaching a far greater audience.

plus it’ll help break the stigma around these sites (thepiratebay/mininova/isohunt). If people see that the BBC is releasing content on these websites then attitudes will change!!

@ the whole RAD team: keep up the good work, it really is important. and we’re not the enemy the media/gov’t/riaa/mpaa/bpi is making us out to be (see Alan Ellis and the http://OiNK.cd/ trial), we just see things differently from your generation as im sure you did with the generation before you.

EPIC WIN!!! – Love BBC, even on danish national tv-broadcasting (DR), the best programs seems to be coming from BBC these days..

@H33T:

I second that (yeah, all of it..lol)

@59:

STFU!! Lame MAFIAA-troll…

“PLEASE KEEP ASKING FOR ADVICE”

Excellent advice, so quick question. I just uploaded 3 different formats.

MKV – Xvid/AAC sound
AVI – Xvid/Mpeg3 sound
MP4 – X.264/AAC+ sound

http://ftp.kw.bbc.co.uk/backstage/rdtv/

How would you best suggest we distribute these files?

As a U.K resident, I feel this is a step in the right direction by the BBC. And while I don’t agree fully with the TV License (I think the BBC should perhaps consider doing some advertising, as well as collecting a cut down, set license fee).

I use iPlayer to catch up on shows, and its always a smooth, easy to use way to watch stuff. Congrats for creating it, and glad to see BBC dipping their toes into this area, without the insane fear many in media have.

One the things I have always liked about the BBC, is the world service. I can go, nearly anywhere in the world and hear it. Eventually, I believe the likes of iPlayer should give global access too, even if for a small fee (say £/$1 an ep) to those outside the U.K (this can be handled via paypal or something, help pay for servers etc). No one has had the balls to do this yet, but I hope that as broadband gets fast enough, the BBC will step up to the plate, for what is a kind of holy grail of online content.

Nothing kills progress more, than being region locked, when its technically possible, to have a more open system. This is part of, IMO, why Youtube is so popular.

Like the newspapers, traditional tv will be under threat, the more it holds off establishing a reasonable global internet presence. ,

Food for thought, and I hope you’ll consider some of these ideas, and thanks for listening.

Peace and good fortune to you all.

PLEASE KEEP ASKING FOR ADVICE if you need it. The biggest problem with broadcasters trying to branch out into new media is they don’t take the time and effort to engage with the p2p scene to learn the unofficial rules and customs.

As noted above, if you discover an error in your release the correct way to rectify it is to fix the editing and release the new file with the word PROPER in the file name.

For your reference, we use File.Names.With.Dots because not all systems correctly read spaces and will sometimes screw up the file name so that%20it%20becomes%20hard%20to%20read

We’re very excited to announce that today we are launching R&DTV, a pilot project that we’ve been working on with our colleagues in RAD. I’ve been working on this as producer, with co-producer Hemmy Cho, as well as Ian Forrester …

So finally its been revealed what I’ve been working on recently.

R&D TV is a pilot project between BBC Backstage (which is part of BBC R&D) and BBC RAD Labs. The pilot is monthly technology programme made up of interviews from knowledgeab…

Glad we made it onto TorrentFreak. I’m a fan of the TV show :)

I’m the senior producer of BBC Backstage, part of the other half of the team behind this project. George has covered most things but I’m really hoping we start to see remixes of the content. It would be a shame if nothing came of the assets.

Soon, BitTorrent will be embraced by all the companies just as TV is.

Really read those two posts – seriously, George, do your own research and don’t make the mistake of listening to this trumped up idiot who thinks he knows it all.

Both his posts are laden with inaccuracies and baseless agenda driven propaganda – in the name of keepinf the current P2P establishment in existence ironically enough.

It seems to me that he has let his position at his small tracker go to his head and feels entitled to spread lies and his own opinions as facts… as I said, do your own research and take what he says with a large handful of salt.

We didn’t want to ‘control the releases’ for this one, and so didn’t set up our own tracker, or release to trackers ourselves. This wasn’t laziness – we may well do so next time – we’re learning from this.

Thanks for your technical help – btw I don’t take any of your comments personally at all.

Regards

George

Someone, somewhere within the bully-boy BBC must have an eye on commercialising content, so i will be interested in seeing where this goes.

As a UK resident, i hate the fact that the BBC threatens people with prison or a £1000 fine if you don’t get a license. The whole point is that i can turn my TV on and get BBC for free; they then threaten you if you don’t have a license.

If you have a PC with a videoCard/TVCard, then yep, you are also eligible for a license, even with no TV.

Side note: If you are blind or severely sight impaired, you get 50% off. Current cost of license is £142.50 for colour and £48 for B&W per year!! So you can see why the government has some say, it is a huge amount of money they collect.

Side note 2: Johnathan Ross secured an £18million contract till 2010.

Also, they have a commercial arm of the BBC called BBC WorldWide. So they create content like the awesome ‘Office’ using license fee money and then distribute it worldwide for $$.

Also, the extortionate cost of the iPlayer (apparently £130million) beggars belief. Check out this funny video of the boss trying to justify costs at the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee :P
link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sfQk9NXlns)

Regards
Prisoner of Society #3,435,675

ref. the h33t torrents: they contain the 30mins versions (they do not contain the 5mins versions). if you want to release updates then it can be done by making a new torrent including the word “PROPER” in the title and uploading the torrent to one of the trackers. it will naturally propagate itself or propagation can be accelerated with manual intervention especially to mininova and TPB (the other sites are all networked). it is best that the releaser (you) controls the releases

the issue is not P2P-Next specific it is a gripe direct from the bittorrent establishment. it is rare to have the ear of one so deep within the media cartel and my comments should not be taken personally, on the contrary, filesharers have been seeking a dialogue with the enemy

the issue is when the big money arrived to “examine p2p research” it landed in the hands of a new commercial venture established to exploit the profit opportunities of filesharing. instead the cash could have been better spent investing in a partnership with established bittorrent players like TPB, isohunt or mininova. there are huge open source projects working in bittorrent with decades of accrued experience and knowledge of the protocol, its systems and its application. starting a new venture to investigate p2p is unfriendly behaviour from the perspective of the free communities who inhabit the filesharing universe

meanwhile what cash is put into filesharing by the media cartels is spent on attacking the free filesharing networks to close them down (regardless bittorrent was born of the monopolistic practises of the same media cartels). naturally the majority of content on the filesharing networks has some legacy copyright issue attached because the vast majority of media content is owned by the media monopoly. the injustice of the situation today, and why this comment contains belligerent words such as “enemy” and “warfare”, is because 100% of children are participating in “illegal downloads” as characterised by the BBC

it is political and economic warfare from all sides by the encumbent media monopoly. filesharers and their communities are lambasted and criminalised in the media, in the courts, in their own homes, by a system governed by people who behave like monsters

we are filesharers because we use a technology that we recognise is changing the world for the better. we share because we care. we share because we reach across international boundaries of race, creed, religion, and country, with the simple knowledge that freedom of data, global access, and equality of opportunity, for all the people of the world, is ultimately undeniable with the proliferation of our technology

we filesharers know our communities and networks will prevail, no doubt about it we are the greater in number united by the best in modern communications technology. what pains is the unnecessary victimisation of people by the ugliness of the media cartels as they struggle to come to terms with a new technology that has landed into the hands of people

http://www.h33t.com where filesharing is an ideal

The law is that to own a TV or radio you are required by law to hava a licence. Whether you use it or not is not the point, when you buy a TV you have to provide ID so they can submit your details to the government.

Do they drive vans up and down? They used to. Now they just send a letter to any address without a licence threatening them with legal action, they dont even care if you have a TV or if anyone lives there.

When a family member passed away a short while ago my father wrote them a letter explaining that no one lived there, there was no TV and that no licence was required.

Over the next 5-6 months he recieved four.. four legal letters saying they were taking him to court… every time he wrote back saying ‘listen.. there is no one there, this Gentleman is dead’.. yes they continued.

Dont get me wrong I have no problem with the TV Licence, but I hate the heavh handed techniques… EVEN WHEN YOU ARE DEAD !!! ffs.

PS I like the comment about the viewers being the product for advertisers lol, very good.