Democracy Player as poor man's TiVo

Sketchy legal issues aside, I'm a big fan of the "poor-man's TiVo," i.e. downloading TV shows via BitTorrent. There are a lot of ways to automate this--many BitTorrent clients can read and filter RSS feeds, and there are even stand-alone apps dedicated to the task. Lifehacker introduces us to yet another method, using the awesome open source app Democracy. Democracy, of course, has built-in support for feeds and is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and Lifehacker's Adam Pash walks us through setting it up to find and fetch the latest episodes of our favorite shows, just in time for tonight's Lost premiere.

Tags: bittorrent, democracy, democracyplayer, download, feeds, opensource, rss, tivo, tv