EZTV Introduces BitTorrent RSS Standard, With Magnets

[davewiner]

http://torrentfreak.com/eztv-introduces-bittorrent-rss-standard-with-magnets-110123/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29&utm_content=Twitter

[wybo]

Hope this integrates with what the Pirate Bay founders are working on, as discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2132482 (at least if their "mysterious website" is still going to be based on torrents).

But in either case it seems a fortunate move towards much-needed standardization of torrent RSSes :)

[jackolas → wybo]

I don't get why they weren't done just emulating podcasts, i.e. have an enclosure and extra metadata...

This seems to be an easy problem.

[davewiner → jackolas]

Apparently they do emulate podcasts.

Here's an example of one of their feeds.

http://www.ezrss.it/search/index.php?simple&show_name=pb...

Note that each item has an enclosure.

They have other data that doesn't fit into the existing elements of item, so creating a namespace is exactly the right thing to do.

[leppie]

Why do people still insist on using DTD?