Democracy Now! Technology adoption and convergence.
Democracy Now! traces it’s heritage to the Pacifica Foundaation which is an alternative to mainstream radio. In 2001 it morphed into a radio and TV broadcast. With the rise of streaming video DN! added it to its portfolio of distribution modes. Very recently, DN! has added the BitTorrent file sharing protocol to it’s portfolio. Because of the higher efrfective bandwidth of BitTorrent, the DN! torrent has a raster that is comparable to broadcast television. The stream that tracks the live broadcast at 8:00 AM Eastern and repeats shortly thereafter is much smaller. But you do have to wait for them to put the torrent together usually by 11:00 AM. Also, if the main site goes down, as happened recently, most of the clients/servers in the BitTorrent swarm stay online so that the protocol can still work. And the torrents live on a separate server so you can get the torrent here.
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