Despite having played with Democracy Miro, I’m still rather attached to Azureus Vuze for one or two of its useful features*.
Being an addict of US scifi TV, I was excited to discover feedmytorrents.com, which provides vodcast RSS feeds for most current popular US shows, such as my current favourites BSG and Lost. The killer advantage over other RSS sources (such as the excellent EZTV) is that one can subscribe to a particular feed in Miro or Vuze and get precisely one copy of every episode of that show. No more remembering to search mininova to see if the new episode was up yet! This was exactly what I had been waiting for since discovering Democracy Miro’s channels system.**
Of course, it didn’t take long for the system to break. Vuze’s RSS FeedScanner plugin would display a new episode in the list but not start downloading, instead giving a constantly shifting error message: “Init” > “Scanning 1/64…” >>> “Scanning 39/64…” > “Init” (it never seemed to get past 39). This would eventually time out saying “No data”. This affliction would only affect those particular episodes that feedmytorrents had sourced from mininova, but not those from the pirate bay (easily distinguished by the torrent URL). There was nothing wrong with the torrent file itself, as I could right-click > copy link URL and paste it into firefox, which would happily download the torrent and open it in Vuze, the default application. But of course this completely defeated the seamless experience.
I searched on the Vuze forums and found several similar problems reported but few solutions. One suggestion was that the setting “Use URL as referer” might need to be turned off. Sure enough, this worked. For whatever reason, it seems that mininova doesn’t like the HTTP referer field to be set to the “URL”, whichever URL that may be (itself?). Turning this option off (thus sending no referer) didn’t seem to break piratebay torrents (and why should it: this is the behaviour when one types in a URL by hand), so I disabled it on all my feeds. This makes me ask two questions. 1: why isn’t this option off by default and 2: what the hell does the HTTP referer field have to do with it anyway?
* coughcoughtorcoughcough! Interestingly, the latest version (4.1) of Vuze has reskinned itself to look almost exactly like Miro…
** sorry guys, I don’t watch Rocketboom…
The Fifth Wheel of andrewg 
Hey Andrew,
What does this have to do with Rocketboom (re. **) ?
I was using Rocketboom as a representative example of the content that Miro provides and I’m not really interested in.
Thanks much for digging for a solution to that problem. I was having the same issue and unchecked the “use URL as referrer” and bingo. it works like a charm.