Red Swoosh has just released FoxTorrent, a torrent downloader plugin for the Firefox browser. The cool twist is this: FoxTorrent claims it lets you watch or listen to the file as it downloads. Still, torrent files are divided unevenly and are different than streaming files, I was able to watch a 1/2 hour video as though it were streaming, but I had to give it a hefty head-start. (Michael Arrington had a different experience.) Akamai recently purchased Red Swoosh, so they’re the power behind all this. Installation was a snap on this Mac/Firefox combo. And the video I downloaded was purely for investigative purposes… (via TechCrunch)
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