The .torrent file should be converted into an actual midi file, with correct headers, etc. It should actually play when you open it with quicktime or windows media player.
When converted, the result should be a unique piece of music. Perhaps something that could be considered "art", and protected by free speech laws.
Imagine printing out the score and having an orchestra perform the torrent file!
The key, though, is that you can also convert the midi back into a usable torrent.
...it's not actually in D Minor, but it's certainly Ubuntu (ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent, converted to a proper, listenable MIDI file)
Only done the encoding just now.. Basically the code loops over each byte in the file, ord()'s it, creates a note with that value and advances to the next beat.. Decoding should be simple enough, but the simple MIDI library I was using only creates MIDI files.
One slight problem is the file is about 5-6 hours long, so I don't think we'll be sharing torrents via background music on Youtube videos quite yet.. A more time-efficient way to pack the bytes into notes is definitely possible (currently it only plays one note per time-slot), but that would have taken far longer than I wanted to spend on this...
The .torrent file should be converted into an actual midi file, with correct headers, etc. It should actually play when you open it with quicktime or windows media player.
When converted, the result should be a unique piece of music. Perhaps something that could be considered "art", and protected by free speech laws.
Imagine printing out the score and having an orchestra perform the torrent file!
The key, though, is that you can also convert the midi back into a usable torrent.