http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/08/norways-public-broad-1.html
Norway's public broadcaster sets up its own torrent tracker using same
code as The Pirate Bay
POSTED BY CORY DOCTOROW, MARCH 8, 2009 2:27 PM | PERMALINK
Eirikso from NRK, the Norwegian public broadcast, writes to tell us
that they've set up their own BitTorrent tracker, adding, "The tracker
is based on the same OpenTracker software that the Pirate Bay has been
using for the last couple of years. By using BitTorrent we can reach
our audience with full quality, unencrypted media files. Experience
from our early tests show that if we're the best provider of our own
content we also gain control of it." The first show we’re putting on
our new tracker is a very popular television series about people
living in remote places in Norway. It features fascinating people and
spectacular scenery. We have provided all the Norwegian subtitle files
and if people want to fansub any of the episodes we’re more than happy
to let you do that. Please let us know in the comments and we’ll link
to your translations.
We are providing full quality video files with no DRM. The biggest
problem regarding this project is to clear all the rights we need to
be able to distribute content in such an open system. NRK is a big
content producer, but record labels, actors, external production
companies and format rights owners usually have contracts that prevent
us from distributing our content freely in the internet. We are in
constant negotiations over these issues. And it seems like it should
be possible to find a solution where NRK gets the rights it needs and
the rights holders get the compensation they want.
In addition to this we look into new providers. Pump Audio, Magnatune
and other companies with easier licensing systems are interesting
sources.
The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation is promoting the free and
opensource Miro software as their preferred BitTorrent client. It is
user friendly and contains everything you need to both download and
play the high quality video files.
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