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Download the CBC TV winter lineup automatically

As Ouimet observes, much of the CBC’s winter television lineup is available for download via Bittorrent, thanks to some thieving television pirates.
But what you may not know is that The Border, Sophie, and jPod (but not MVP) each have corresponding RSS feeds on tvRSS.net.
What does this mean?
If you paste the search-based RSS feed for each [...]

Posted 15 January 2008 † dmisener § CBC ‡ Comments (1) °

How Democracy changed everything, and what the CBC needs to do to compete with the pirates

Well, perhaps Democracy hasn’t changed everything, but it certainly has changed the way I watch television shows.
Democracy is a free, open-source, Internet television platform. Its guts are made of:

An RSS aggregator
A Bittorrent client
A video player based on VLC

When you put these three things together, magical things start to happen.
Let’s say, for example, that I’m a [...]

Posted 09 April 2007 † dmisener § CBC § Podcasting ‡ Comments (5) °
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