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Norwegian State TV Launches BitTorrent Tracker
torrentfreak.com - 3/9/2009
Norwegian State TV Launches BitTorrent Tracker
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For its tracker, NRK has chosen the beerware licensed Opentracker software currently favored by The Pirate Bay. One of the reasons NRK set up their own tracker is so they can gather more statistics on their viewers downloading habits. “With our own tracker we will get better statistics ...
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation sets up its own bittorrent tracker
nrkbeta.no - 3/8/2009
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation sets up its own bittorrent tracker
— nrkbeta.no — Information in Norwegian Dette er en egnelsk artikkel som informerer om at NRK har satt opp sin... egen BitTorrent-tracker. Noe som kan være av internasjonal interesse. Vi har også en egen artikkel som forklarer hvorfor vi av og til skriver på engelsk ... (more) Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation sets up its own ...

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paulgraham.com - 3/3/2009
Why TV Lost
— paulgraham.com — March 2009 About twenty years ago people noticed computers and TV were on a collision course and... started to speculate about what they'd produce when they converged. We now know the answer: computers. It's clear now that even by using the word ... (more) Why TV Lost

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downloads.feralinteractive.com - 3/11/2009
Feral Interactive: FERAL - Make Your Play
— downloads.feralinteractive.com — Welcome to Feral Interactive's download area. If you have experience with BitTorrent, feel free to go ahead... and download the demos below. If this is your first time downloading something via BitTorrent, you may wish to to click the link. (more) Feral Interactive: FERAL - Make Your Play

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Norwegian public broadcaster launches BitTorrent tracker
TechSpot — Following a number of successful tests in 2008, Norway’s public broadcaster NRK has decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker in order to get its content in front of as many people as possible, DRM-free of course. The broadcaster will be using the same OpenTracker software that powers infamous site The Pirate Bay but, unlike the latter, all their content will be legitimate and eventually moved to a creative commons license. In all fairness, the state-owned broadcaster can afford making such a bold move because it receives 94 percent of its revenue from a license fee paid by all ...

Government-Owned Norwegian TV Station Launches BitTorrent Tracker
Techdirt — ... do this with individual shows, and now TorrentFreak is reporting that the government-owned Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) has set up a BitTorrent tracker for distributing a bunch of its shows, noting that: "This type of distribution is reliable, cheap and popular with our audience." Indeed. Not only that, but by running its own tracker, NRK realizes: "we will get better statistics and gather important data about how this technology works." Even better, it plans to share some of that data for others to learn from as well. ...

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Norway's public broadcaster launches BitTorrent tracker — Ars Technica
Norway's public broadcaster NRK receives 94 percent of its revenue from a license fee paid by TV-owning households in the country, and it's charged not with making money, but with getting its content in front of as many people as possible. To do that, NRK has just launched its own ...
Norway's public broadcaster sets up its own torrent tracker using same code as The Pirate Bay — Boing Boing
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 ...