Ben Drawbaugh of EngadgetHD fame last week took time to post a step by step showing how to download and automatically get your TV shows into Recorded TV on your Media Center.  While a little complicated, this process will get everything setup so that you won’t have to touch it after that.

From the post:

We’re going to start with a quick overview of how the process works. First we set our favorite BitTorrent program to automatically download our favorite shows using the magic of RSS. Then we query TheTVDB.com for the metadata for the recording which includes things like the original air time, the description and the genre. Finally we use DVRMSToolBox to automatically process the x.264 MKV file (also works with Xvid), converting them to MPEG-2 while at the same time retaining the Dolby Digital Surround sound. And finally, it wraps the audio and video into a new DVR-MS file in the Recorded TV folder — since Windows 7 support h.264 we won’t have to re-encode, and yes we’ve already gotten it to work.
Disclaimer
Make sure you check with your local, state and country’s laws — In some cases you may be inadvertently downloading (and uploading) copyrighted material.

Josh and I discussed this a bit on the last show.  Ben has written a great guide here.  And as the above disclaimer shows, understands that this might not be 100% legal everywhere.  I think most people who read the blog have probably already reads Ben’s post in it’s entirety.  While it may not be legal in your area, this is a great way to get your programming if you don’t have any other option.  I suggest you check those laws as Ben says though.