Towards a RSS 2.0 BitTorrent Standard
Written by Ernesto on July 23, 2006SqrtBoy published a whitepaper on discussing his ideas on how BitTorrent webmasters should design their BitTorrent RSS feeds.
SqrtBoy is known for his work on Torrent Trader Lite, VBTT, IPBTT and other several BitTorrent tracker php/mysql scripts. It is great to see that someone is proposing a standard for BitTorrent rss feeds.
Every webmaster [...]
SqrtBoy published a whitepaper on discussing his ideas on how BitTorrent webmasters should design their BitTorrent RSS feeds.
SqrtBoy is known for his work on Torrent Trader Lite, VBTT, IPBTT and other several BitTorrent tracker php/mysql scripts. It is great to see that someone is proposing a standard for BitTorrent rss feeds.
Every webmaster probably has his own thoughts about how the perfect rss feed would look, but this document is definitely a step forward.
SqrtBoy told TorrentFreak:
I have found that each rss feed was different from one site to another, and from a BitTorrent script to another. The multiplication and organization of different feeds formats was leading to confusion and was making it difficult to read in rss clients, and also some other feed indexing applications. The purpose of this document is to give some recommendations to webmasters on how a rss 2.0 BitTorrent related feed should be designed, so maybe we can see a standard appearing.
I think it is extremely important to have a proper standard for BitTorrent rss feeds, especially since the number of people that get their latest torrents though feedreaders, media players and BitTorrent clients is growing.
Using the same feed style will only benefit the usability of BitTorrent & rss, and their implementation in feed based TV players like Democracy, Fireant and IM.
BitTorrent RSS 2.0 Feed Specifications White Paper
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RSS sucks, ATOM is way better
I wouldn’t touch anything Sqrtboy does/suggests with a bargepole. There is a thread in the community leaders area of filesoup where the old Snarf-it.org owner gave sqrtboy some space on his server for free. The space was purely for helping him with his bittorrent-support and phpsoft sites, when the owner noticed heavier than normal bandwidth drain he tracked down the reason - several tv episodes being uploaded via bittorrent by sqrtboy, on the snarf-it server! That would surely be a criminal offence if the authorities had taken down that server and found a) a bittorrent site and b) illegal files being seeded.
Anyway I tell this story to illustrate my point that he is not to be trusted, this white paper is sure to be dooomed as many other bittorrent site admin hate him as well (justified).
If you want proof what I say is true visit this thread:
http://filesoup.co.uk/forum/phpsoft-and-bittorrent-support-scam-by-sqrtboy-t113392.html
..ask for community leader access if u can’t view torrentfreak, your bound to get it :).
I am amazed to see that people still try to bring me down using any means …
Anyone smart enough will just skip the stupid gossip and with knowledge on the topic will see that this white paper is a serious document. I am providing the community with quality open-source scripts since two years now, and I will continue, whatever the gossips and rumors say, because they are plain wrong ! All those who launched these kind of rumors are now gone, I am still there working for the community.
Back to the topic, I am also in talk with several webmasters so a new revision can be made and we reach a standard on a workgroup basis.
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