I’ve talked about and linked to folks talking about how to route around the existing tv networks. It’s already happening right now of course, just take a look at suprnova.org a few hours after your favorite tv show has aired and you’ll find it there for the downloading, usually edited such that the commercials and filler material are gone. The problem is it needs to be automatic – this needs to happen as seamlessly as your existing tivo setup works for this to really take off. I love peering into the crannies of the software development community to see what kinds of things the developers are cooking up. Here’s today’s excellent example – Buttress. There are a number of apps attempting to do the relatively simple thing buttress is doing – subscribe to an RSS feed, whenever that feed links to a torrent file, Buttress grabs it and ques it up in your Bit torrent client. You come home and find your favorite content ready and waiting for you.

Cool, cool stuff. A little rough around the edges, but some digging on your part and you’ve got yourself the perfect personalized tv network. Give these concepts another 6 months to a year to evolve and we will start to hear the networks squealing and the congress legislating to stop this.

This is Java-based so it should run on any platform with the appropriate JVM installed. I leave it to you all to find the appropriate RSS feeds 😉