p2pnet.net News:- Cory Higgins has been and gone and done it.

An admin at P2PCore and a long-time p2pnet contributor, he’s launched his own site.

Good on ya, Cory ; )

This post is on free, streaming TV episodes, and here it is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

With the explosion in popularity of the Bit Torrent technology downloading TV episodes off the Internet has become nearly common place. They begin to spread across the internet within minutes after they finish airing. They’re captured by groups like LOL and then encoded to formats like Xvid to make them a smaller file size. Then they’re uploaded to private FTP servers that very few people have access to. Then a few people with access to these servers use Bit Torrent to transfer the file to the hoards of people via EFnet IRC channels like #EZTV. Others with ‘scene’ access upload the shows to Usenet servers. From these places, the episodes make their way to all forms of file sharing.

However, I recently ran across another source of TV episodes online. A website called CraftyTV.com offers a decent alternative for those who may wish to watch TV via the internet but aren’t comfortable downloading them via p2p or Usenet. The shows are offered to web surfers via a free winamp video stream. More than 30 different TV series are available on the webpage.

The site offers everything from new hits like Lost and Desperate Housewives (the first seasons of both these shows is available in their entirety) to older shows like Mash and Seinfeld.

At times, the site can become a little busy causing the streams to have a bit of a ‘skip’ in them. However, the site offers a guaranteed skip-free stream for those anyojne who’s willing to ‘upgrade’ their accounts.

CraftyTV claims to be avoiding any legal problems since they are not offering the shows for download, but only stream. They may not be aware of it, but I’m nearly sure they’re still in violation of copyright laws.

The quality of the shows isn’t as good as what one can find on Bit Torrent. While they may not be HDTV captures, they are for the most part plenty watchable. Also, there’s not the waiting time lone experiences with peer-to-peer downloading.

And for those who may not like having to stream the content, there are probably several ways around this. I’ve read one method that sounds promising, although I haven’t tried it. It requires you to have Front Page. The users gave these directions.

Start playing the episode, when playing it press CTRL + A (Select All) and then go to Front Page, paste with website into Front Page, double click on the VIDEO window (The part the episode plays in) now you should see a link, copy that link into browser and it will start to download, Use WINAMP to play movies. I assume that all one has to do is dig around the websites code enough to find the direct link to each episode then you could download it for watching when ever you like. I dug around a bit, but with my next to non existent knowledge of code I was unable to find anything.

If you figure out an easy method, please email it to me at digitaltopia@mchsi.com I’m sure the webmaster would rather we not do this, but oh well life is a bitch then you die.

Cory Higgins – Digitaltopia

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