An Interesting Approach to Music Downloads
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Benn Jordan wrote:
Hello listener...downloader...pirate...pseudo-criminal... If you can read this, then you’ve more than likely downloaded this album from a peer to peer network or torrent. You probably expect the rest of this message to tell you that you’re hurting musicians and breaking just about every copyright law in the book. Well, it won’t tell you that. ... If you really like ‘The Flashbulb - Soundtrack To A Vacant Life’ and want to show your support without it going to greedy retailers, distributors, and coked-up label reps, then click the button below.
The Flashbulb Promotes Piracy[^] For those of you who don't want to read the whole thing...this indie-label CEO basically posted an entire album (lossless audio, DRM free) to a private bittorrent tracker with a note saying that they get practically nothing from iTunes, Amazon, or Best Buy (or any of the other big-box distributors). So he's hoping to just short-circuit the whole process and get the money directly into the hands of the artist. It's kinda like what Radiohead did recently with their newest album....but this guy's the CEO of the record label, not just an individual artist. The next few years are going to be pretty interesting with respect to how the record labels and such deal with digital music.
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Benn Jordan wrote:
Hello listener...downloader...pirate...pseudo-criminal... If you can read this, then you’ve more than likely downloaded this album from a peer to peer network or torrent. You probably expect the rest of this message to tell you that you’re hurting musicians and breaking just about every copyright law in the book. Well, it won’t tell you that. ... If you really like ‘The Flashbulb - Soundtrack To A Vacant Life’ and want to show your support without it going to greedy retailers, distributors, and coked-up label reps, then click the button below.
The Flashbulb Promotes Piracy[^] For those of you who don't want to read the whole thing...this indie-label CEO basically posted an entire album (lossless audio, DRM free) to a private bittorrent tracker with a note saying that they get practically nothing from iTunes, Amazon, or Best Buy (or any of the other big-box distributors). So he's hoping to just short-circuit the whole process and get the money directly into the hands of the artist. It's kinda like what Radiohead did recently with their newest album....but this guy's the CEO of the record label, not just an individual artist. The next few years are going to be pretty interesting with respect to how the record labels and such deal with digital music.
well, if Qtrax ever gets off the ground, then there won't be an issue with free P2P downloads. Just fire up Qtrax and download from there. They didn't have a stellar launch, though, and are still not up and running for downloads due to legal issues I think.
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well, if Qtrax ever gets off the ground, then there won't be an issue with free P2P downloads. Just fire up Qtrax and download from there. They didn't have a stellar launch, though, and are still not up and running for downloads due to legal issues I think.
Qtrax offer DRM tracks that can only be read with their own software client, when you listen to a "downloaded", advertisement will be put before/after the song (I think, it's not clear from their site), quite annoying. IMO it will fold in the next few months (if not weeks), it's a stupid idea.
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
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Qtrax offer DRM tracks that can only be read with their own software client, when you listen to a "downloaded", advertisement will be put before/after the song (I think, it's not clear from their site), quite annoying. IMO it will fold in the next few months (if not weeks), it's a stupid idea.
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
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Qtrax offer DRM tracks that can only be read with their own software client, when you listen to a "downloaded", advertisement will be put before/after the song (I think, it's not clear from their site), quite annoying. IMO it will fold in the next few months (if not weeks), it's a stupid idea.
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
What happens when the customer nullroutes the ad server?
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