MetaFilter posts tagged with torrent

Bergen to Oslo from your armchair

Beautiful Screaming Lady — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:25:14 -0800

On 27th November, Norwegian broadcaster NRK broadcast a 7.5 hour documentary showing every minute of the scenic train ride between Bergen on the Norwegian west coast, crossing the mountains to Oslo. Now, after removing all extraneous interviews, music clips and fancy trickery from the documentary, they are offering the entire, clean, 7 hour continuous front-camera version for free Creative Commons download. All 22Gb of it. Here's a fantastic 10 minute taster on YouTube.

Further down the spiral...

reptile — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:03:33 -0800

We've seen Nine Inch Nails before on the blue, and the band's last two albums have been available for free online. Now there's more, in the form of a fan-produced DVD. Trent Reznor's last tour was supposedly his last ever, and as a gift to his fans over the years, he put on some special performances. NIN played the entirety of The Downward Spiral album live at Webster Hall in NYC, but due to exorbitant prices charged by LiveNation, were unable to professionally film the performance. So the fans stepped in, a call was made for HD video filmed by fans at the show, and the result is here: The Downward Spiral: Live, a fan-produced DVD available via Youtube streaming or for download with bittorrent. (via nin.com)

Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.

numberstation — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:25:28 -0800

"It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before the official release." Peter Sunde of the Pirate Bay manages a little black humour after hearing word of the trial judgement. 1 year in prison and a 30m Kronor fine (£2.4m). Streaming press conference to be held today at friday at 13.00 swedish time (GMT+1 / CET). Get your pirate phrases at the ready.

Should we care about Carl Lundström's xenophobia?

Joe in Australia — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:50:22 -0800

The notorious torrent tracker The Pirate Bay was originally established with the support of Carl Lundström, who continues to hold a significant stake in the enterprise and support it financially. Carl Lundström is also a supporter of far-right anti-immigrant parties and was allegedly involved in an violent attack against three Latin Americans. Now a well known online computer magazine suggests that geek sympathies for The Pirate Bay have kept reporters from covering this issue. Wired's coverage only says that Lundström's detractors point to a past in nationalist politics. The Pirate Bay's defenders dismiss the questions as being nothing more than a slur, but the attacks and defense beg a fundamental question: can the views of a financial supporter taint an otherwise neutral organisation?

Sha-pow or something. Or, rather, lack thereof.

converge — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:34:06 -0800

Batman and Robin De-Assified. So, some anonymous gentleman has apparently tried to make a Joel Schumacher motion picture watchable. Gotta love comic geeks. This is just a link to the review; the movie's been released on your friendly neighbourhood torrent site. Play World's Greatest Detective and find it.

Bitlet: stream torrent music

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:30:42 -0800

Bitlet allows you to stream audio directly from a torrent.

a major artist admits to being on OINK!?!

ashbury — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:24:39 -0800

Trent Reznor speaks about being a member of oink, torrents and file sharing, as well as other interesting things. NIN cd cover artist, known online as Demonbaby, also speaks about labels, file sharing and oink. It's a lonnng rant.

ARTISTdirect MediaDefender

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:16:35 -0800

Anti-Piracy agents MediaDefender have 700MiB of juicy internal emails leaked on BitTorrent; are in trouble.

What about that Mothership thing?

Dave Faris — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:18:51 -0800

Torrent Raiders is a dynamic network visualization realized through the idioms and aesthetics of arcade-style video games. Driven in real-time by the activity of bit torrent swarms, Torrent Raiders takes place on the ad-hoc networks created by bit torrent users.

Capsized.

Mean Mr. Bucket — Wed, 31 May 2006 12:05:47 -0800

The Pirate Bay has been shut down.

Toy Story / Requiem for a Dream mashup

Tlogmer — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:03:26 -0800

(Use the torrent.)
Toy Story 2: Requiem

Os Muntantes on Brazilian TV.

Sidthecat — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:51:15 -0800

Os Mutantes on Brazilian TV. Os Mutantes, Brazilian counterculturalists and one of the greatest psychedelic bands of all time, perform on the Brazilian television show Som Pop- TV Cultura in 1969. Torrent file here.

I tend to think the album is a bit overrated, but 'Chicago' is gorgeous.

Rev. Syung Myung Me — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:54:48 -0800

Illin'-Noise! is the new remix of Sufjan Stevens' album Illinois by mc DJ; a torrent is available, as is cover art. It's not quite like Hippocamp Ruins Pet Sounds (previously on Mefi) -- it's not nearly as noisy, and not quite as good, although it's still worth checking out, particularly "Chi-Town" (from "Chicago"), "Zombies" (from "They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhh!") and "Jacksontown" (from "Jacksonville"). [prev.]

NerdTV out

mathowie — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 08:49:06 -0800

The first episode of NerdTV is out but the site is so inundated with users that the official torrent is the only way to get a copy at the moment. It's an online-only series featuring hour long episodes filled with interviews done by Robert Cringely.

Gotta love unrestricted uncensored internet

elpapacito — Mon, 30 May 2005 07:02:17 -0800

Capitalism and other kids stuff Four UK based socialists produced this hour long documentary in which some of the problems of capitalism are presented in a simplified, kindergarten model. Tought provoking, incomplete but NOT derailing into bipartisan hate for a change ..an hour well spent IMHO. You can also DL it with Bittorrent program.. a good reason to install it (5 minutes ) and witness how a distributed cooperative program such as Bittorrent can do wonders.

le sigh

sourbrew — Sun, 15 May 2005 18:54:25 -0800

Le Sigh - ShunTv joins the ranks. I found this through metafilter users.... would like to lament shun with metafilter users. As MPAA expands into prosecuting tv viewers.

LiveMusicSource

srboisvert — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 14:31:44 -0800

SharingTheGroove.org Trade concerts at this site where BitTorrent tech is combined with DAT concert taping audiophiles. You can read the boards to find music or you can just check their bitTorrent tracker. If you want to go low tech they also have Blanks & Postage or Tree/Vine forums.