Wired points out that rock band the Decembrists have circumvented the MTV bottleneck by releasing a full-length video, shot for 6,000 dollars at a high school, on Bit Torrent. Some of their fans got the ball rolling by hosting the Torrent tracker. Traffic must be pretty good: my download of the 73MB file shot to over 360kB in seconds. That's the beauty of Bit Torrent, as opposed to client-server interactions; the more traffic, the faster the transaction. The video is called Sixteen Military Wives, and the download page is here. It's a lightweight condemnation of U.S. foreign policy.
