My first torrent

For me, 2005 will go down as the Year of Living Frantically. Between traveling to dozens of cities for my book "Darknet," speaking at conferences, and launching and supporting Ourmedia.org, I've had almost zero free time during the past year. (Oh, yeah, I have a family, too.)

So I'd been delaying creating torrent files because I figured it would take hours learning how to do it.

Not so. My friend Gary Lerhaupt launched Prodigem a year or two back, and he's taken the pain out of BitTorrent p2p file sharing. I urge you to check it out -- it's an excellent service, and free. (There's a small charge if you want to try to make money from your works -- another good idea.)

For my first torrent, it was natural to share all the excerpts from "Darknet" that I've placed online over the past several months. So here's the Prodigem web page containing my torrent, and here's the link to the torrent itself.

Included in this package:

Introduction
Concept: Darknets
Ch. 1: The teenage filmmakers
Ch. 2: The tech and CE industries get cozy with Hollywood
Ch. 3: The Prince of Darknet
Ch. 4: Fair use in the digital age
More Ch. 4: When the studios won't give permission
Ch. 6: Your locked-down digital future
Ch. 7: The tech exec who broke federal law (and why the law is broken)
Ch. 8: Hollywood's visionary outcast
Ch. 11: Pho, Cole Porter and Tarzan economics
Ch. 14: Embracing our digital destiny