Wow - that was an education! After several hours of puttering around BitTorrent websites, testing every BT client that will run on my Mac, editing the MIME types, and reviewing my options with both Blog Torrent and Torrentocracy, I’ve finally got a BitTorrent version of my first bitcast (thereby making the bitcast worthy of the name) up on my site:

Download here

This time, you need two things already up and running: an iPodder or a newsreader that supports enclosures and is smart enough to open the .torrent files, as well as BitTorrent itself, naturally. Because this is all a might confusing for most, I’ll be posting a how-to tomorrow on setting up your new media client software.

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Hmmmm…No auto-open / auto-execute for me it seems. NetNewsWire doesn’t seem to support it, and iPodderX choked on the torrent and gave me an empty MOV file. Any suggestions on how to fix either?

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Well, it seems like I don’t yet have the distribution to adequately support BitTorrent downloads of media. Not to fear - it’s all set up and working, ready to deploy at a moment’s notice. In the meantime, the larger file is available as a direct download, and I’ve used Coral to keep things in control in the event of a spike in demand. Coral is an excellent transparent server-side P2P system which could eliminate bandwidth woes by spreading traffic to popular sites across the entire internet. At the moment, though, it’s in beta and will only support files smaller than 50MB, so it’s not entirely practical for video distribution. Check it out!