A fan of Air America Radio has set up a site to distribute torrents of their programming in Ogg Vorbis audio format (Ogg = open source mp3-like format). His enabled feed is at http://bigelow-springs.net/airamerica/rss.php.

Here's a comment from the site's maintainer, Tedd Kelleher:

I am very sensitve to copyright concerns, so I will terminate the site at the slightest hint of concern by Air America radio. I started it because I wanted to "Tivo" Air America, and I wanted to play with streaming, bittorrents, etc., and I though I would share my experimenting with others...

I have heard from the staff of Air America, to thank me for my work...

I've added the Air America Radio archive feed into the list of torrent enabled RSS feeds that Torrentocracy automatically can link into.

Via BoingBoing, there is a link to a torrent of a fan made remake of Planet of the Apes as an episode of the Twilight Zone. Download and enjoy.

Torrentocracy 0.0.8 is now available (tarball):

* Full download/upload statistics are now displayed when you are actively joined to a bit torrent. The statistics (percent complete, time remaining, upload and download totals and rates) refresh every second.

* Added the feed from DV Guide to the torrent-enabled feed subscription list.

* Added a 'status' parameter to the bittorrent service.

* Dick Smits URL/regexp patch.

I'm still recouperating from my phish trip and haven't had much focus on blogging. Unfortunately, I was planning on linking to some torrents from the festival, but honestly the music actually left a little to be desired. This only belabors the point that cool new mediums for information transportation require good content. On that note, I can only say that something very cool is in the works. Coming soon...

OutragedModerates.org is now hosting a bit torrent of their Download for Democracy project. It includes a slew of government documents relating to the current administration. Here's a wired article with more info on what's what. You can watch their traffic tracker here.

Induce Act - 0
The People - 8

(I made up the number 8, I mean example after example of legitimate uses for P2P emerge, but of course they do. How can they really consider passing the Induce Act?)

Anyway, I'll be away this weekend in Vermont after all to see Phish's last show. I'll be back with torrents from the festivities.

The People - 9

Ernest Miller has written up Torrentocracy as part of his Hatch's hit list for technologies that will be affected by the Induce Act. He's pulled some blog entries from about a year ago from my personal Lerhaupt blog in order to make his point. Indeed, it seems I'd be guilty of something if the Induce Act were passed just because I've once acknowledged out loud that p2p can possibly lead to copyright infringement (of course not that Torrentocracy advocates this).

And since you can spell "corante" from the letters of "torrentocracy," by legislative kung fu, Mr. Miller can also now be brought up on charges. Time to get a Shaolin lawyer.

In CVS, I have checked in the display of full torrent statistics when joined to a bit torrent. Now you can see full upload and download speed and totals as well as what percentage is complete and the remaining time. I still need to tweak it so that it refreshes this information automatically every second or so and also do away with the endless logging in the background status file.

On the screenshots page, you can see what this looks like. For clarity, I didn't actually take a picture of my TV this time. Though, I think you do lose a little bit of the effect.

My buddy John Hull was at LinuxWorld this week in San Francisco. He stopped by the EFF booth, and got a nice shot of Wendy Seltzer showing off Torrentocracy as part of MythTV and their Digital Television Liberation Project. Cool, thanks John.

Today on Wired, they're running the story Group Wants to Induce Downloads regarding the Induce Act and P2P. The icon that Wired is using on their main page and which is cross-posted on boingboing, is of Torrentocracy pulling down the Senate Hearings!

Update: Wired is hosting the full sized screenshot too.

Here's a torrent to Stockholm Syndrome's concert the following night in Dallas.

Stockholm Syndrome is a band featuring Dave Schools from Widespread Panic and Jerry Joseph of the Jackmormons. This is a show the other night from Houston taped by a couple friends of mine. I saw them in Austin this weekend and they ripped up Stubbs.

Torrentocracy is proud to host this torrent which you can of course now see on our Torrents page.