The next version of the Democracy Player, 0.9, has been released. Democracy is an online video player, which is able to download videos from RSS enclosures via http and Bittorrent. This release has some significant new features (in their own words):

Playlists
You can now create playlists to organize your favorite videos. I have a playlist called ‘Keepers’ that I’ve been using to keep track of videos that I like to show people as we’re sitting down to watch a movie at my house, kind of like previews, but better.
Folders
To organize your channels and your new playlists, you can now create folders.
Flash video
Tons of video online is now in Flash format. The Windows and Linux versions of Democracy Player can now play Flash videos from most flash hosting sites. In addition, Google Video and Youtube have been added to the search choices. (The Mac version can’t play flash in the main window, but we’ve made it easy to launch it in a separate window.)
30 Languages
This is the first version of Democracy to support non-English languages on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Democracy is at least partially translated in over 30 languages.

Beautification and polish
There’s lots of other UI polishes, that look nice and improve usability.

I love the concept of Democracy Player, and think it fills a very important niche in new media. Up until now it has suffered from bugs and frankly from a lack of good content, but both are beginning to become less of an issue, and I see Democracy becoming a program I use every day in the future. An extra bonus is that it has a GNU (open source) license, meaning that it really is democratic!