Here's a torrent to Eminem's new video taking on Bush for his Iraq actions. You can read more about it from TalkLeft who also points to direct download links. It looks like Eminem is wise to guerrilla marketing.

Thanks, Ben, for the link.

Last night I was lucky enough to catch the Umprhey's McGee concert at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. If I'd have to handicap who will eventually fill the jamband void left by Phish's retirement, I'd say there's good money to be placed on UM. The show rocked. Though, unfortunately, a buddy who was set to tape the show from front lip of the stage, was told he wasn't allowed to tape by some unknown person of the band's management right before the show started.

This is all the more unfortunate as I was really looking forward to torrenting this show out, and even more so when Phil Lesh (of the Grateful Dead) joined the band during the second set. A jamband torch passing moment? To hear it (and you should), I guess you'll need to wait for them to release the soundboard matrix for $9.99. Free distribution will always take a back seat when, in moments like these, there's good money to be made. That's just how it is.

A friend of a friend of mine out here in the Bay Area, known by some as crackmc, has been generous enough to dig into his archives of music he's taped to provide some high quality unearthedness. This torrent is from the soundbouard of a Greyboy show from the Great American Music Hall in San Fran on 12/12/2001. Enjoy.

source: SBD > LunatecV2 > SonyD8 > SGI Indy(digi-in) >
SoundForge4.5[CDarchitect] > GoldWave > FLAC frontend > .flac

Recorded & Transfered from the master DATs by Vinny Palese
remastered, converted to FLAC, and seeded by crackmc

Folk hero of the internets, Jon Stewart alerts us to today's Bushism in this clip from the Daily Show from October 19th. Here we see Bush "plainly" declare that we will not have an all volunteer army. His adoring (will vote for you cuz you made me sign this contract first before you'd let me into your rally) supporters correct him and hilarity ensues.

Here's the torrent. This is my first attempt at hosting video that I captured myself. Thank you MythTV. Update: I switched the file from an avi to an mpeg since it looks like the avi doesnt play by default on Windows. Restarted the torrent.

Joe Halliwell provides an Ogg Vorbis Video capture (more info on Ogg here, Ogg codecs for windows here) from Cory Doctorow's talk from Edinburgh University this previous October 12th. The full title is "Web 2.0 == AOL 1.0? How the Sinister Forces of Darkness are Conspiring in Smoke Filled Rooms to Make the Web Illegal, and You're Not Invited." The video is incomplete with some of the beginning and end missing, but as Joe puts it, "there's still a good hours worth of fascinating material".

Watch Cory wax on copyright, from Diebold to DRM (and other topics which don't start with the letter D). But download and pay attention now, before we're all F'd.

Thanks, Joe. The torrent is hosted on Torrentocracy here.

Here's the torrent to the mp3.

Gracias Tony once again. This time Kerry talks God this and God that and mentions Cheney's lesbian daughter. I hope Bush doesn't unleash his "budget man" on him now (update: or his armies of compassion).

And, cough, why no talk about the environment?

Also, Ben sends me links to torrents of video of the first two debates. Haven't looked at them myself, but thanks, Ben: first, second.

I got a note today reporting a problem with the Torrentocracy app on MythTV 0.16 and pointing me to a Torrentocracy wiki which also states the same:

QObject::connect: No such signal QTextBrowser?::insertItem(QTextBrowser?*)
QObject::connect: (sender name: 'unnamed')
QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'torrentocracy')
Segmentation fault

So don't panic when MythTV suddenly quits when starting Torrentocracy on MythTV 0.16!

This is troubling but also interesting because I'm currently running from Myth CVS 0.16.20041005-1 with no problems at all. I'm using qt-3.3 as well. If anyone has any info to help narrow this down, please drop me a line.

Once again Tony comes through and has provided an mp3 of the second Presidential Debate from Friday, October 8th in St. Louis, Missouri. The torrent is hosted on Torrentocracy here.

In this one, Kerry might be wonkish and wooden, but it is Bush who actually offers to sell you his wood. Not to be forgotten is Bush's resolve to only appoint anti-slavery judges to the Supreme Court, and also his firm understanding of the internets. Hmm, I wonder if that means he'll be joining this torrents.

CIA WMD Report + Forged Iraq Uranium docs

OutragedModerates.org is hosting a torrent which contains PDFs from the recently released CIA report on WMDs (or lack thereof) in Iraq. Also contained within the torrent are the forged Iraq uranium documents which President Bush alluded to in his prior State of the Union.

I'm mid debate watching here, but just noticed that the Outfoxed torrent I'm hosting just hit its 1000th complete download. I've posted up screenshots of the torrent in action.

With my move to Northern California, I am now for the first time in my life confronted with not being in a Time Warner fiefdom. I guess I never quite realized how good I had it. Man oh man is the digital cable interface for comcast light years behind Time Warner. Their guide only shows what is on for the current half hour (as opposed to the next hour and a half) and the extra space on the screen is filled with advertisements you can click on. Who clicks on these things? They also don't have DVR available, which isn't a big deal for me since I'm running Myth, but I thought this was Silicon Valley. Oh well.

What really concerns me though, is the general localized monopoly that these companies get and the restrictions it places on the consumer's choices. More specifically, if you aren't using the digital cable box, you only get 80 or so of the 400 channels which are available. Austin's Time Warner was kind enough to throw us a bone by including HBO-East as one of the channels available without the box, but this is NOT the case for Comcast out here. So, while I'm left trying to figure out how to hook the comcast cable box directly to Myth so that it can access these channels (which I'm sure will make changing the channels *very* slow), I'm left pondering how choice is removed from us bill paying users just so the cable companies can ensure you are paying the extra charges which come with needing their cable box. Blech.

At the same time, for some weird reason, Time Warner's interface in Cincinnati was a million times better than what Austin had (Austin, I believe gets shafted for being an early adopter town, where they roll stuff out first and then leave you with the crappy beta version). So, I'm wondering if anyone has bothered to compile a comparison of cable offerings from city to city. I'd be most interested to see which cities get the most cable channels straight from the cable outlet without needing the cable box.

Wouldn't it be cool if PBS torrented out their content? I see no reason that they shouldn't. Presumably they have some sort of tax exempt status, they don't show advertisements during their programs anyway, and it would only serve to further the exposure that people get to their content. Sounds like a win-win to me.

Tony has provided a 90MB mp3 of the first presidential debate as recorded from NPR. I'm hosting the torrent at torrentocracy.com/files/torrents/debate_2004_1.torrent. Hear all your favorites, "peninshula" and "nucular" along with the brand new "What about Poland?", "moo-lah" and the heady bustout "Vladumurr". Hear Kerry pledge to once again bring killing back into his life.

Update: I just came across this and had to share...