Digg and Mininova Team Up to Seed Bruno
Written by Ernesto on June 30, 2009The latest Digg Dialogg stars none other than Brüno, the über-famous Austrian model and host of the Funkyzeit fashion and celebrity show. To make sure that Brüno’s interview is well-seeded at all times, Digg has teamed up with Mininova.
With a theater release scheduled for less than two weeks time, Bruno is doing several interviews promoting his upcoming mockumentary. One of the most anticipated Q and A sessions is the Dialogg with the Digg.com community that was released earlier today – on Digg as well as Mininova.
Our traffic sponsor Digg is no stranger to BitTorrent. Before the MediaDefender debacle Digg’s weekly video podcast Diggnation was published on Revision3’s very own BitTorrent tracker, but times have changed.
However, with their latest Dialogg video Digg has again decided to embrace the Internet’s most powerful distribution method. They’ve teamed up with Mininova, the largest BitTorrent indexer, to make the file available to millions of Bittorrent users.
“We see BitTorrent as a smart way to legitimately distribute content amongst millions,” Matt Van Horn, Business Development Manager for Digg told TorrentFreak. “That’s why we’re excited to share Digg Dialogg via torrents as one of the ways in which people can enjoy Digg’s interview with Bruno,” Matt added.
In addition to a regular torrent, Mininova is also testing a BitTorrent-powered video stream using Bitlet’s services. By clicking on the “stream this video” link users can directly watch the stream in their browser, fully powered by BitTorrent.
Mininova co-founder Erik Dubbelboer told us that they are delighted to be working with Digg. “We have always liked Digg so when they asked us to work together we jumped on it immediately. This was also a nice opportunity to test the new video streaming from Bitlet which we had just implemented into our Content Distribution service,” he said.
With its Content Distribution service Mininova is seeding the file on its servers which guarantees a high speed download. The advantage for the Digg team is that they save some bandwidth and don’t have to seed Bruno themselves.
The Dialogg with Bruno can be both downloaded and streamed using on Mininova. Geil!
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pretty cool.
ALso the Pirate Bay will live!
stfu tpb sold out, I’m sticking to my private sites
This is great. The more content that is generated and distributed online for free by torrent, the better.
Maybe one day broadcast media rights holders will be glad when their content is distributed in this way, rather than their current litigious stance.
Awesome that they’re teaming up with Mininova to spread this.
On a side note. I’m disappointed that Digg cherry picks the questions they asked Bruno. Yes, they have every right to select which questions they want to ask, but it would have made the interview so much more enjoyable if they had actually asked the top questions submitted.
what a sh!t film and a sh!t actor. you suck torrentfreak!
seed bruno …
Oh what do you know. Mininova is under attack. Coincidence?
sasha is a ledgend for alot of people here in the U.K.
Nice to see his success in America and the rest of the world.
@5..[Sasha] he is not an actor…he is a method comedian.
very rare in the world of tv/movies.
In one U.K show ,[ ali G in da house ] he did Bruno, on a U.S beach.
funny as hell…. he more or less made a group of teenage wrestlers look gay as funk… gota see…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBTvAHFKbTs
Let’s see how much Bruno’s movie-biz cronies like P2P when the cam torrent is released the same week as the theater version
SNORE
Was this article put up just to distract us all from TPB Epic Fail? I hope I’m wrong.
YAAAY! we’re allowed to share free advertising, whoop-dee-fucking-doo
did TF got sold too, or is there no real news?
I’m sick of this Bruno ***hole!
But what tracker do they use? I think its bad to give mininova credit if they don’t host the tracker themself!
note to self: misspell the f-word on TorrentFCC :p
@10 (shirley) they should just stop reporting on everything? ^^
Really Digg fucked this one up by asking lame questions (ignoring the top questions As well) and sending someone unable to interview Bruno.
Sascha did his best but the guy really was a buzzkiller..
First of all..most NERDS don’t use DIGG in the first place
It just seems like a ploy for advertising and I am not falling for that..
We need to get the hell outta here and go underground so the army of trolls can’t find us.
Loose lips sink ships.
sasha is brilliant. Cant wait to see Bruno – LA PR
I am not using Mininova ANYMORE. I am boycotting you starting now.
Digg Dialogg is the only thing I like about Digg if I want to go site like that I’d always go to Reddit!!!
Cohen was a natural for this role.
He’s a flaming a$$hole.
Please, change your news host or put mustache on her face. By either way, you will improve your news as well as reader. Thank you.
Isnt mininova.. aaa… dead?
http://twitter.com/Anyuser1
I poo poo all of this…..I really do.
What is this crap?
Aside from the fact that Mininova has declined into a piece of shit since they caved into copyright concerns, I have absolutely zero interest in anything Sacha Baron Cohen does. I already saw his schtick in the last movi. Samd schtick with a different character doesn’t compel me. I won’t even watch it for free.
https://www.furk.net/search?q=borat
Ummm..i don’t know how to send a message to the official writers of this site..but…
CANADA is going to get it’s own Pirate Party and it’s ABOUT time!
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/30/tech-pirate-party-canada.html
I hope its a good news to an article for htis site.
The Pirate Bay is doomed and you report on this crap? Everything BitTorrent stood for is reduced to ashes and you reprt on ‘Bruno’ What is the world coming to ffs. Me whole world has come tumbling down today…all i lived for has been squashed…Snuffed out.
Have you people no respect? RIP The Pirate Bay. Was good while it lasted.
Very cool. – But what the hell is this video? I’ve lost all hope in humanity.
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Oh, I thought this is about sharing the movie, not advertising crap. Sad.
one more “article” like this and i’ll stop reading torrentfreak
The Pirate Bay will live!
Well, I downloaded this, it was super-fast! Shame that the actual interview was dull and extremely unfunny.
What’s next Mr Cohen? No more old characters to dig up now?
all very interesting?
I don’t care about Austrian male models or interviews distributed on Mininova.
That kind of commercialistic media for the masses can be bought in any kiosk or accessed on a celebrity gossip website (set up by a big media company to rake in money and dull & dumb you down)
Net Neutrality is seriously threatened and the foremost spokespeople might have sold out (remains to be seen).
“We see BitTorrent as a smart way to legitimately distribute content amongst millions,” Matt Van Horn, Business Development Manager for Digg”
Well isn’t that lovely! What a great example of how we need to progress usage of p2p technology into the 21st century, while respecting those copyright laws that enable content providers to continue production without the threat of unlawful distribution of copyrighted material….
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omg i just made myself sick, feel like puking….
(I guess the plug for the sponsors is part of the traffic deal that is referred to in the article)
What’s with the muppet who always writes “cool story bro :)”
What’s the point?
First he insults Kazakhstan which is one of the ten biggest countries on earth and no laughing stock.
He gives Britain a bad name by being rude while in the US.
Now he’s going to make funy of Austria (nice country) and gays.
It’s ridiculous to put umlauts on the u in Bruno, it completely changes the pronounciations.
Cohen is behaving like a provincial, ignorant yet pretentious twat.
Writing about him distracts from more important issues that this site needs to cover.
I agree with the poster who said you couldn’t pay me to watch so called films.
@40 Actually, Austria IS pretty gay. :)
It’s a lame ass movie. You can get a copy from http://www.zoomtorrents.com?file=Full_Version-Bruno-H262_BlueRay.avi
Wonder if digg is going to help Mini seed the cam when it makes it to mininova, oh i forgot the filters will take care of that….
Stop filtering Mini, its bad for the site & tracker.
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