My BitTorrent download of the SXSW music archive has been running about 30 hours. 12.5 percent complete, an estimated 8 days to go. 2.6GB total. Has anyone gotten better results? Frankly I'm surprised it's performing this slowly. Any theories? Doesn't BT get faster as more people are using it?
Postscript: I was running BitTorrent behind a NAT, which requires special configuration, which I hadn't done. Read the comments to see how I fixed it. Now I'm achieving download rates of greater than 400K per second! Yowowowowow.
# Posted by Dave Winer on 3/9/05; 3:48:38 PM - --
I've been lurking on the Berkman-Thursday list as the airing of a Nightline segment on blogging approached and then passed. The ABC cameras came to an exceptionally well-attended Thursday night meeting and a bunch of video was recorded that then appeared on ABC last night.
For those outside the US, Nightline is one of the most respected TV news shows here, it's been running since the Iran hostage crisis in the late 70s, and is hosted by Ted Koppel, who along with Donald Trump has a hairdo that defies logic and gravity.
Anyway, the discussion of the aftermath is fascinating reading, particlarly this post from Steve Garfield who also did a video of the session, and published it under a Creative Commons license that states "that people can use my content for free, for non-commercial purposes, but must give me attribution. I'm wondering where the attribution was in the Nightline piece?"
Another post asks why Lisa Williams was quoted on video, without any indication of her name. In fact, it appears none of the bloggers were named?
Myself, I was asleep when Nightline came on, dreaming to the sound of the waves of the Atlantic Ocean informing North America of the latest news of the day. 
# Posted by Dave Winer on 3/9/05; 10:20:36 AM - --
