Mininova Helps CBC to Distribute TV-Show
Written by Ernesto on March 26, 2008Due to server complications, CBC decided to team up with mininova and let them seed the torrent files for “Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister.” It is great to see that mainstream broadcasters use BitTorrent to share their content online, and even better, that they use mininova’s content distribution platform to do so.
Last week we reported that CBC, Canada’s public television broadcaster, was about to release CNGPM on BitTorrent. Because of server issues, CBC has now turned to mininova, who now seed the torrent files for the show.
Tessa Sproule, head of CBC’s Digital Programming told TorrentFreak: “We had aimed to include a direct link to the torrent files on cbc.ca/nextprimeminister, but ran into a conflict with the CBC server which meant we needed to point to the file elsewhere, and that’s where Mininova came in. Since then, we’ve also submitted the CNGPM BitTorrent to Miro, Vuze, and a number of other torrent sites/services.”
Mininova’s content distribution platform, which currently has over 300 premium publishers, is ideal in this case because the BitTorrent site will also take care of the seeding, making sure the torrents never die. All CBC has to so is upload the file, and the torrent will automatically created and seeded for them.
When asked about the reason why CBC decided to use BitTorrent, Sproule said: “The show started online with a YouTube casting call in which 144 bright young Canada’s created and uploaded their own video pitches for why they would be a great leader of Canada. Making the final show available online, DRM-free, was our way of giving back.”
CBC thinks that BitTorrent is one of the easiest and most effective ways to share their shows. “As Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC is mandated to make its programming available throughout Canada by the most appropriate and efficient means. I believe BitTorrent is a terrific distribution technology and absolutely something we as a public broadcaster should be experimenting with,” Sproule added.
Mininova, on the other hand, is happy to welcome CBC to their content distribution platform. We asked Niek, one of the founders of Mininova, for a response and he said: “This is terrific news, it’s great to see that broadcasters start using BitTorrent instead of fighting it. we expect that more (broadcasters) will follow in the near future.”
With torrent files seeded from the Mininova servers, Canadians should be able to download the show in a few minutes. That is, if Canadian ISPs aren’t throttling their traffic.
Update: It turns out that mininova is not seeding the files yet. The files on mininova use the Pirate Bay tracker. Mininova’s Erik told use that the torrents will be updated tomorrow. So, for now the credit goes to The Pirate Bay. Thanks Alan!
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ThePirateBay rule, mininova is number two.
Now bring back Jericho :D
Jericho sucked, bring back The Unit. And mininova and TPB both suck equally as hard, IsoHunt FTW
ThePirateBay, mininova and IsoHunt all suck!!
TorrentReactor FTW!!!!!!!
I <3 CBC.
This is good, we just need to get more networks on Bittorrent, BT is the best content distribution system for large files. I’m glad more people are realizing. What’s the problem with different BT sites? TPB is good, but mininova serves my needs so i use mininova. What works for me may not work for you, so stop stating opinion as fact.
still need the cbc to fight isps and get torrent throttling practices thrown out.
Still there is Bell Canada in the way! throttling even those DSL users who are not Sympatico customers.
just randomly change the ports often that the bt uses and it bypasses there filtering lmao
[quote comment="319334"]just randomly change the ports often that the bt uses and it bypasses there filtering lmao[/quote]
and how would the router keep up with the port changes if UPnP on the router is messed?
When the fuck was this a debate about what bittorrent website is the best..
stfu noobs.
Nice to see at least one broadcaster has a brain.
Canada FTW! great to see a step in the right direction!
@Rycon:
Make that two. Norwegian broadcaster NRK used BT to distribute “Nordkalotten 365″ in HD (MPEG4 H.264, 1024×576 25fps, 3 Mbit/s. No DRM. To be precise).
Inside story: the making of a legal TV ‘torrent’
http://www.last100.com/2008/03/26/inside-story-the-making-of-a-legal-tv-torrent/
It’s great news for anyone that believes data should be freely available regardless of age, sex, nationality or wealth. It shouldn’t be too long before using torrent distribution by major broadcasters is no longer considered a news story.
[quote]“As Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC is mandated to make its programming available throughout Canada by the most appropriate and efficient means. I believe BitTorrent is a terrific distribution technology and absolutely something we as a public broadcaster should be experimenting with,” Sproule added.[/quote]
Go Tessa Sproule !!! You Rule !!! You have the guts to go where no formal authority has ever dared before, you are truly the most revolutionary woman/person in Canadian communications of any sort today, and one of the leading revolutionaries of the world!!!
Maximum and FULL props to the coders, developers, and de-buggers who created the protocol; there is no one more crucial to p2p than you;
but for something as big as p2p to reach maturity, there are more than one all-important phases: one is creation, one is acceptance into the fringe, and one is acceptance into the mainstream.
Torrents are huge, but even their current number of users pales in comparison to how many there would be if p2p were to be adapted by most of the general public - from 10 million users worldwide to 10 million users per country!
Tessa, you are on the forefront of that revolution; I refuse to say you are more important than the creators of the protocol, but wholeheartedly say you are, in a different sense, as important.
Go Canada!
GO RON PAUL !!!
GO RON PAUL !!!
GO RON PAUL !!!
Trackers one by one are useless. http://www.youtorrent.com power!
to make this more efficient,cbc should provide a hi-speed direct download for a limited time or say,200 completed download so ppl with big pipe could download and seed it for the rest of the world,and move on and let the community take care of the rest.
and i certainly hope a much more interesting content coming out of this,but a good precedence anyway.
ps:now since this’s a legal download,i’ve became greedy and prefers a direct,hi-speed download…over p2p…..
[quote comment="319261"]Jericho sucked, bring back The Unit. And mininova and TPB both suck equally as hard, IsoHunt FTW[/quote]
omfg. No Comment.
stfu fanboys
yall look retarded
#cracker jack, you n00b there wouldnt be an isohunt without those two trackers .. mostly isohunt just index other trackers .. even tho they also have own
CBC=Communist/Corrupt/Cronistic Broadcasting Corporation
Canada is a failed experiment. In a short time you will see 10 different countries. The problem is that Canada doesn’t exist anymore. Immigration has produced 10 regions that are so different and so hostile to each others economic and social interests, that the end is inevitable.
#fdat
Canada has 7 (8 depending on who you talk to) geological regions or 13 provinces you idiot.
Go CBC!
its a good response to content distribution platform for everyone
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce << thats the tracker inside the torrent files
mininova is not a tracker, nor ever has been. stop giving them free advertising for leeching off others hard work (TPB and other actual trackers). minonova makes money from ads by aggregating content from other sites and merely linking to real trackers torrents.
mininova is a joke.
As I said in the torrent comments, the CBC is always welcome aboard our pirate ships. :)
I saw them here!
http://pluking.blogspot.com
You got me convinced, dfat, that you don’t know a goddamn thing about Canada, politics and geography as well. You wouldn’t be from Alberta, would you?
“Canada has 7 (8 depending on who you talk to) geological regions or 13 provinces you idiot.
Go CBC!”
Ah, actually, it’s ten provinces and three territories, but yeah, Go CBC!
Go Canada. I think it’s time that the American people… Ugh.
[quote comment="319772"]CBC=Communist/Corrupt/Cronistic Broadcasting Corporation
Canada is a failed experiment. In a short time you will see 10 different countries. The problem is that Canada doesn’t exist anymore. Immigration has produced 10 regions that are so different and so hostile to each others economic and social interests, that the end is inevitable.[/quote]
Yea by’, bring out the nukes, the newfs oughta be the first to go.
You effing retard, Canada runs like a smoothly oiled machine, that oil coming from Alberta, collected in Ottawa, and distributed all over this great country.
Maybe you should think about the “failed experiment” as you call it, of the US, when we run out of oil and water to sell them, and China finally comes knocking to collect on its tab.
I was going to write something in commendation towards the CBC for utilizing this technology, but now I can’t. Thanks to idiots such as yourself who ruin good blogs.
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