FlowingData - Mad Men as thousands download via bittorrent

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Contents: Mad Men as thousands download via bittorrent Mad Men as thousands download via bittorrent Apr 20, 2012 09:31 am  •  Permalink The BitTorrent protocol lets groups of people download parts of a single file from each other, so instead of one file from a single source, you get multiple bits from different places. Artist Conor McGarrigle shows this activity via an episode of Mad Men, as it's downloaded. The video captures an episode of the popular TV show in the act of being shared by thousands of users on bittorent with the corruption of the file a direct result of the bittorrent protocol. The video acts as a visualisation of bittorrent traffic and the practice of filesharing and avoids infringing the copyright of Madmen as it is incomplete. Curiously the greater number of simultaneous users sharing the file the more aesthetically pleasing are the distortion effects. Poetic almost. [via Waxy] Sponsored by: More to read: Live flight tracking site shows crash of circling plane Pancake Venn Hans Rosling makes Time 100 Most Influential Gimme my data Tracking drought in the US  follow on Twitter | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2012 FlowingData, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in on FlowingData. Our mailing address is: FlowingData PO Box 3381 Livermore, CA 94550 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences