A new bit of seemingly helpful software called XB Stream has managed to knock out a bunch of podcast sites.
The freeware program allows you to stream audio and text xml feeds to your Xbox 360 console automatically.
Unfortunately, the initial version of the program, which cam pre-installed with a bunch of the top Xbox podcasts, automatically hit up each podcast and downloaded the 30 most recent casts. Two really bad things immedially happened, a bunch of Xbox 360 users had their PC Xbox 360 harddrives swamped and a bunch of podcast sites had their servers shutdown thanks to the enormous amount of download bandwith.
Gamertag Radio's Godfree wrote to say that their sever had more than 42,000 hits with more than 500 gigs of bandwith in less than 48 hours and now their site is toast. Fortunately, GT Radio doesn't have to pay for their overages, I'd hate to see what this is doing to sites where people have to pay out of their pockets.
Hopping over to the XB Stream site, I see that the creators already have a temporary patch up and are hard at work on a permanent fix.
If you have downloaded a previous version of XB Stream please immediately follow these steps below. Several podcast sites are being continually hit by XB Stream and using up massive amounts of their bandwidth. Please please follow the steps below to fix this issue ASAP, as we should respect the podcasts. 1. Uninstall XB Stream completely. 2. Download the new version on this website and install (it still is listed as version 1.0) 3. The new version will not download audio podcasts by default - PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THIS YET 4. I will include a permanent fix by today/Monday which will only download 1 audio podcast.
So it sounds like you should avoid XB Stream until Monday, or at least carefully follow the above instructions if you do get it. It sounds like once this kink has been worked out it will be a pretty cool program to get for your 360.
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