Hacking Democracy (bittorrent video)

[Wonk]

http://www.isohunt.com/download/14712136

Remember to seed to a ratio of at least 1.0, preferably 1.1 or more, after your download is complete to keep the torrent strong.


edit: Please K & R if you want more people to see this video.

[Wonk]

1. Kicking this back to page 1, nt

[CatWoman]

4. Wonk, HELP!!!!

I don't know how to do this :cry:

[Wonk]

7. Click the link, that opens a new page. On that page, click the download link

which downloads the .torrent file to your computer.

Then, open that .torrent file with the bittorrent client of your choice, which will start the download of the .avi file (the movie itself) to your computer.

Some popular bittorrent clients are Opera (the web browser has built in bittorrent functionality), BitTornado, BitComet, Azureus, and uTorrent. I like Azureus, but individual preferences may vary. http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

I hope that helps. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.

[William Bloode]

13. I agree i like Azureus.

It is a tad of a resource hog but has great support and is very stable. Best i've used IMO.

[frazzledmom]

16. You can also got to the source for the client

http://www.bittorrent.com/download.html

[Lars39]

2. K&R

Thanks, Wonk! :hi:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. kick

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. K&R

YAY!!! I know there are a lot of people wanting to see this. Expect to have my own VHS of it on Sunday.

:D

[LeftyMom]

6. Nobody's seeding at the moment.

:(

[Wonk]

8. I see 43 seeds, and over 700 peers.

:shrug:

[LeftyMom]

10. I'll restart utorrent then

For some reason it does that sometimes.

Thanks!

[Wonk]

11. It worked after your restart, I hope? nt

[Wonk]

65. One day later and it's up to 893 seeders. Now THAT'S a healthy torrent :)

[lildreamer316]

9. KICK.

Lemme see if I've got enough room; I'm overloaded at the moment until hubby gets home with the portable HD.

[helderheid]

12. I have never figured out bittorrent but anyone with the video can

upload it to googlevideo - PLEASE DO. THAT I can share. Bittorrent makes my head hurt.

[William Bloode]

15. Download Azureus, install it.

When you install and set up it will ask you what level user you are, select beginer. After you have it up and running click on link above, then click "open" file. After that Az will shoot out a dialog box, click ok, then just sit back and wait.

Also it's best to create you a file just for torrents, Az will ask you for a location to download to.

Az is so easy i can use it and i have a whole 8th grade education, and thats not a Beverly Hillbillies joke either.

[helderheid]

21. Thanks - is there a way once I do this for me to convert it to a file I COULD

upload to google? It's so much easier to share a link to a google video than bittorrent for my friends and family!

[William Bloode]

22. Yeah, you'll just have to convert it to an exceptable file type.

May not even have to, just depends.

[helderheid]

25. thanks!

[ConsAreLiars]

28. No need to convert. The file is in .avi format, which is commonly used

on Google Video and elsewhere. One relevant example is Avi Rubin's talk about the insecurities of Diebold machines at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6376169615813100061&q=.avi

BitTorrent is just a distribution system for files in any format - .mp3, .zip, .pdf, whatever. This one happens to be in .avi, which Google Video regards as perfectly acceptable.

[helderheid]

32. In that case, I hope anyone with bittorrent will upload it to Google video!

[helderheid]

34. Your search - hacking democracy hbo did not return any results.

I'm surprised no one has done this yet

[helderheid]

35. I THINK I have it working.

:scared:

[redacted]

14. OK, trying Transmission 0.6 for Mac OSX 10.4

[greatauntoftriplets]

17. Sending this back up for Andy's sake....

:bounce:

[yodermon]

18. Utorrent is the best

in my humble humble opinion. Why? because it is P U N Y both in file size and memory usage. And it has all the cool graphs.
Does everything Azureus does but with lightning efficiency. And you can choose which files of a multi-file set to download. And I could go on. http://www.utorrent.com/ :hi:

[Bill219]

19. Thanks for this...

but can anyone upload it to usenet, Bit Torrent goes soooo slow compared to usenet download speeds

[redacted]

23. Usenet?

Didn't know there were torrents on Usenet now.

[ConsAreLiars]

24. This file is in .avi format. You'll find lots of them on usenet.

Hopefully someone will post this on usenet soon. BitTorrent is just a distribution system, just as ftp and html pages and usenet.

(edit to add dropped "s")

[redacted]

41. OK, but how do we downlowd AVI files from Usenet?

Can a newsreader do that? A browser? What software to use for uploads, an FTP client? And Usenet is vast, where do we go to upload & download?

I think we need to take advantage of every option available to get the message out there. Usenet could certainly help.

[lildreamer316]

20. Kick again.

[yellowdogmi]

26. Some help?

I downloaded Azureus. But can not figure out how to get it to download this file. Boy do I feel stupid.

[wildflowergardener]

27. to download

Ok, I am kind of a beginner at this also, but have done it a few times. First install Azurus, then run it, then you click on the link in the first message - the one that starts with www.isohunt.com

I said to run the file I was downloading, and when I did it started downloading in Azurus. I did have to change some settings in my router and firewall to get the green smiley face under the Health column - I allowed the port it was using to connect to my computer in my software firewall, and then switched the setting in my router to enable upnp and then the program automatically configured my router. I think I did this right. Anyhow it's working.

Meg

[yellowdogmi]

29. Okay maybe I'm not as stupid as i thought. Thanks!

[Wonk]

30. kick

[greatauntoftriplets]

31. Kick back to the top.

:bounce:

[Lars39]

33. Kick

:kick:

[helderheid]

36. what does seed to a ratio mean?

[Stephanie]

37. Dear Wonk, please explain to me

What is bittorrent, what is seed, what is torrent? TY!

[Wonk]

50. Here are some links to help you out

General bittorrent faq

Glossary of terms

[helderheid]

38. 1.6% done - I must be doing it right!

[helderheid]

39. my status was yellow - now red - constantly get NAT error - any ideas?

[helderheid]

40. I GIVE UP. It froze at 20.2%

[redacted]

44. HH what Bittorrent client are you using & what system?

Might be able to help you figure out how to restart the download. . .

[helderheid]

45. I never give up too long. I am using Azureus and am at 21%

[redacted]

47. Something's not right. Plan B?

Consider at least stopping and restarting the computer to free up more system resources (I assume you're on XP) and attempt to resume. I would probably come back to AZ later and in the meantime try one of the other BT clients mentioned in the thread like uTorrent.

In my situation, I started the download last night (using Transmission), ran my dog out to the emergency vet for an eye infection, and when we came home, we had the file. That's how things should be working for you, too.

Wish I could just give it to you through our office's FTP site but I don't have the password. . .

[helderheid]

49. I'm at 70% now

[helderheid]

52. 97%

[redacted]

42. OK, I have the file. What can I do next to help?

Grabbing the video was a BREEZE with Transmission for Mac OSX! This was so much faster & easier than Bittorrent on the PC, which I've used sporadically since it was introduced.

I left my computer on overnight and so far uploaded over 1.1 gig to others who want the movie. It's still uploading now.

What else can I do with the file? If I attempt to post it to Google Video, where I already have an unused account, won't they take a few days to review the submission?

We also have several other computers we use in our studio; can each one of those be set up to upload the video to others via Bittorrent? They aren't doing anything else over the weekend!

[helderheid]

46. at least try to get it on google video - that's my plan anyway! :)

[Beelzebud]

43. Anyone know if it's been posted to any usenet groups?

I hate peer to peer networks. I'll wait until I see it on usenet.

[redacted]

48. KICK

[A wise Man]

51. I'm watching it

on cable now. These bastards and bitches are going to steal another one. Dammit it's yime for a revolution against these thieves. Tuesday may be to late

[helderheid]

53. Downloaded. Open it and I only get audio.

[Wonk]

56. You don't have the proper video codec installed yet. Here's what you need.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DivX6.htm

[helderheid]

60. thanks - I have video now, black and white, with kind of green and red transparent

blobs on the top. :shrug: any ideas?

[helderheid]

54. any idea where I can download the proper decoders to view the video?

[casus belli]

57. DL VLC Player. It's free and codecs are included.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[helderheid]

58. thank you!

[helderheid]

59. that worked - I appreciate it.

[casus belli]

61. No problem, glad I could help. n/t

[casus belli]

55. Thank you for this, kind sir. I shall, in a sign of solidarity, seed until the 8th. n/t

[Earth_First]

62. Blazing right along at 78.8 kB/s...

21.3% finished in about 40 minutes. It'll give the Mrs. and I a great feature to watch when we return from dinner later this evening.

Thanks for the link!

p.s. cann (or has) anyone uploaded this to youtube or google video yet? re: legal ramifications

[helderheid]

63. 10 minutes of it on YouTube

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=3145&mesg_id=3145

[LibertyorDeath]

64. Thanks Wonk!

Cross posted here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2925086&mesg_id=2925086

[Wonk]

66. Kick

[Blue_Tires]

67. TTT n/t

[sakabatou]

68. Just kick it! Kick it good!

[helderheid]

69. GOOGLE VIDEO:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2580494

[Earth_First]

70. Kick! n/t

[Wonk]

71. kick

[Wonk]

72. kick

[EFerrari]

73. Kick.