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35, can't stand opera or country. Everything else is fair game.

Anything techno is generally my favorite. I also have identifiable soft-spots for things I grew up with, like 80's pop and 90's alternative/grunge rock. Heck, even my fondness for techno is probably because of my years of listening to Nintendo music. (And OC Remix feeds my addiction... as I type this, I'm listening to this.)

But everything from Herb Alpert to Taylor Swift is OK as long as it's not opera or country.

Be forewarned, I had no musical training or experience at the time. My brother was in percussion at the time in high school. Here it is. My brother is DJ Goyim, I was DJ Intermodal. I really think he and I should do another collaboration now that it has been 12 years. Especially once I get some equipment and can actually record my guitar, and it would be great if he picked his drums up again. Last I saw, the entire kit was sitting in our parents' hall closet.

http://ocremix.org/

Video game music has been useful to me, though some tracks are very hyper and you well have to tweak your playlist. I started with 1000 remix mp3s about a decade ago.

Go to http://ocremix.org/torrents and scroll down to OC ReMix 1 - 1000 and subsequent ones for mostly lyric-free music. For something done by fans on their free time, there are quite few orchestrated arrangements and nice reinterpretations of themes. Love the piano ones.

Since you are bound to emote and have distracting nostalgia fits, I suggest wearing them down on your free time over spring break by small subsets, avoiding the shuffle function so your mind can start to tune them out in a stable playlist. You will be listening for years, because the selection has grown so large and new mixes come out often.

My personal favorites are Mario, Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger mixes

Thanks for the reply.

I'll look for the FF10 chiptunes a little harder. I couldn't find more than a handful PS2 ones at Zophars and definitely wanted FF10.
I'll link to White Skies, a non-chiptune remix of Mt. Gagazet here.
(The Youtube links tend to last a few months and die, so people finding this may just google that one.)

Back on topic, yeah, I followed the emulation scene up until 16 bit games. Having skipped owning other systems in between that and the slim PS2 left me without much to latch on to, but I am amazed at the glimpses of complex 3D emu I catch here and there.

Boy, am I rusty. First have to correct the dates with an AC post. Then the file format. Posting logged in again.
I meant SPC, not SMC format. While I'm at it I'll also link to OCremix.

Sure. I mainly listen to video game soundtracks, so it may not be your thing, but I really enjoyed "Terra in Black" and "The Might of Baron", both remixes of Final Fantasy songs (VI and IV, respectively). That whole site's pretty good, actually - they got contracted to do the soundtrack for Super Street Fighter II: Turbo HD Remix, which was cool.

Although, I just checked, and it's not actually Creative Commons. The license is basically CC-BY-NC-ND, though, so it's still completely free to download and redistribute. Just some crossed neurons in my memory, I guess.

Sure. I mainly listen to video game soundtracks, so it may not be your thing, but I really enjoyed "Terra in Black" and "The Might of Baron", both remixes of Final Fantasy songs (VI and IV, respectively). That whole site's pretty good, actually - they got contracted to do the soundtrack for Super Street Fighter II: Turbo HD Remix, which was cool.

Although, I just checked, and it's not actually Creative Commons. The license is basically CC-BY-NC-ND, though, so it's still completely free to download and redistribute. Just some crossed neurons in my memory, I guess.

http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?p=790254#790254 "In my opinion, the album art was not particularly more or less transformative than the music on the album. If the intent was commercial sale, and the music was licensed to be above board, as mentioned, the album art probably should have been treated the same way, right? I'm not saying the photographer's not being a douche, or that the sums asked for weren't inappropriate, or anything of that regard, I'm just saying, if you look at the album as comprised of two elements - the music, and the cover - the first was licensed for commercial sale, and the second was not, so if you make a fair use argument for the cover... why not the music as well? If you acknowledge that the music needed to be licensed in the first place, and hence did NOT fall under fair use, it seems odd to make the opposite argument for the album art. That's my only real point, but I feel it's worth making, because it seems like music is often treated very differently (MORE scrutiny & copyright concern) than images. My favorite example that hits close to home is video game fan art vs. video game fan mixes. Peeps been submitting drawings of Mario, Zelda, etc. to EGM before the Internet took over, but the second mixes became a thing, everyone was VERY concerned w/ copyright issues. Again, no hate. We talk about fair use a lot here, it's relevant to us, and I'm pretty sure all of us read this article as a damn unfortunate thing happening to a good person. It's just... that doesn't make him right about the law, or fair use, and I just thought the inconsistency between the music being licensed and the image not was worth mentioning."

I know almost nothing about the Giana Sisters except that i got a cool remix of its music via OCRemix. I guess it was some kind of Super Mario Bros knock-off that most people have never heard of? It kind of surprises me to see any kind of reference to the game show up, but it totally makes sense that if so it would be a discussion about game music :)

I will drink to that. I've found some pretty amazing talent on Jamendo, and honestly I get more enjoyment out of music when I know the artists are in it for the love of music. I'd also add in OCRemix if you're into remixed classic video game music. I'm not a huge fan of techno, but some of the artists have turned the video game music I grew up with into truly haunting and beautiful instrumental music.

I gotta ask... any relation to Disco Dan?

All the folks with whom I played PC games had moved 2 time zones away and it was hard to schedule gaming time.

This is why I tend to play online FPS games with people from a specific community rather than limiting it to just people I know in real life.

Specifically, I play Team Fortress 2 with people from the OCReMix community. OCR has two TF2 servers: blu.ocrtf2.com and red.ocrtf2.com, named after the two teams in TF2.

You're assuming that torrents equals software. There's a lot of media available via torrents, such as Relics of the Chozo.

For those who aren't into the scene:

OverClock Remix is a site that hosts remixes, mostly of video game soundtracks. This particular remix is special in that the composer of the original soundtrack helped with the remix. This one has a gritty electronica feel to it.

Thanks for the detailed review; no mod points today so I'm commenting instead. I can't wait to get this. I wasn't too thrilled with Voices of the Lifestream, but FFIV is my favorite of the series (currently in the final dungeon on the DS version, something like my 5th play-through), so I think this is right up my alley.

I'm far from being a qualified music critic - indeed, I hardly listen to music at all - but have you ever heard one of OCRemix's early FFIV tracks named The Sky was Never a Limit by goat? I listened to that song on my drive to and from work everyday for weeks, and I still pop in my own personal OCRemix FF mix occasionally just for this song. The reviewer (djpretzel) had some minor problems with it, but I love it.

Also, I'm a sucker for a solid vocal track (I don't know the terminology, but by that I mean the kind of choir chanting in Halo's and HOMM4's soundtracks, not actual singing), so I'm interested in both this FF9 piece you speak of (I loved the Garnet's vocal track in the original), and Act 1-15 - "Fighting for Tomorrow" in this album which a previous poster mentioned. Regarding the FF9 track, it looks like you are talking about The Rose General, right? I'll have to give that one a listen as well.

Thanks for the detailed review; no mod points today so I'm commenting instead. I can't wait to get this. I wasn't too thrilled with Voices of the Lifestream, but FFIV is my favorite of the series (currently in the final dungeon on the DS version, something like my 5th play-through), so I think this is right up my alley.

I'm far from being a qualified music critic - indeed, I hardly listen to music at all - but have you ever heard one of OCRemix's early FFIV tracks named The Sky was Never a Limit by goat? I listened to that song on my drive to and from work everyday for weeks, and I still pop in my own personal OCRemix FF mix occasionally just for this song. The reviewer (djpretzel) had some minor problems with it, but I love it.

Also, I'm a sucker for a solid vocal track (I don't know the terminology, but by that I mean the kind of choir chanting in Halo's and HOMM4's soundtracks, not actual singing), so I'm interested in both this FF9 piece you speak of (I loved the Garnet's vocal track in the original), and Act 1-15 - "Fighting for Tomorrow" in this album which a previous poster mentioned. Regarding the FF9 track, it looks like you are talking about The Rose General, right? I'll have to give that one a listen as well.

As an additional note, if you're reluctant for whatever reason to download, you can stream/preview at Last.fm and/or check out the theatrical trailer over on Youtube.

Our torrent tracker is indeed experiencing some load issues but we're working on getting the MP3s up in a single zip mediaupload/rapidshare fashion shortly, and individual MP3s are of course available at the site. The full torrent does include FLAC.

If running the site for almost ten years has told me one thing, it's that you can't please all the people all the time, but from a genre perspective at least this album features electronica, rock, orchestral, jazz, and much more. If Final Fantasy isn't your thing, please do check out the rest of our albums and individual mixes!

And, as a random side note, I administer/develop the site, it's LAMP, and I use Eclipse/PDT for all development and the Oxygen XML editor plugin for XSLT, which drives the frontend templating outside the wiki and forums. You know, just in case any one was wondering...

As an additional note, if you're reluctant for whatever reason to download, you can stream/preview at Last.fm and/or check out the theatrical trailer over on Youtube.

Our torrent tracker is indeed experiencing some load issues but we're working on getting the MP3s up in a single zip mediaupload/rapidshare fashion shortly, and individual MP3s are of course available at the site. The full torrent does include FLAC.

If running the site for almost ten years has told me one thing, it's that you can't please all the people all the time, but from a genre perspective at least this album features electronica, rock, orchestral, jazz, and much more. If Final Fantasy isn't your thing, please do check out the rest of our albums and individual mixes!

And, as a random side note, I administer/develop the site, it's LAMP, and I use Eclipse/PDT for all development and the Oxygen XML editor plugin for XSLT, which drives the frontend templating outside the wiki and forums. You know, just in case any one was wondering...

Perhaps my goal is a copyright that is so over-reaching and so ludicrously stupid that nobody pays attention... Its already starting to be that point, but further work of making such a mockery of it still needs to be done.

And lastly, people need to be showed how stupidly easy it is to do. The more people who do it, the better. And then when a few of these RIAA members and other artist-destroying companies start failing, only then will sane discussion on copyright take hold.

*Typed while listening to the album of Summoning of Spirits, a derivation on game music found in Tales of Phantasia and Tales of Symphonia

Overclocked Remix for all your videogame remix needs.

Triple J archives, and new music for mp3 downloads, plus plenty more streaming goodness available on the site.

I disagree, though it took me a minute to formulate the counter-reason.

No one is going to attempt to run Pixar graphics on this. The point is a form of "Limited Time Machine" in which we can return to portions of the past (here, the language) but abuse modern hardware to get sickening speed increases. Then we just drift back in our memories a little about that program we wrote Back In The Day, but now it eats Crays for breakfast.

As for SID tunes, yea, that hardware implementation has passed its prime, but enter Overclocked Remix. It's the musical ideas of those guys that count, and now they can freshen them up into the best kind of Old-Meets-New mashup. That site still makes a quarter of my work music. http://www.ocremix.org/

And since this is slashdot, I'm sure quite a few of us are already familiar with OverClocked ReMix.

The page with the video linked to the OneUps' MySpace page for the music. The download link there doesn't work, but if you'd like a decent quality MP3 of it, it was posted on OCRemix.org some time ago.

OCRemix was mentioned in another thread (a great site), it's worth noting that Jeremy Soule himself contributed a remix of Final Fantasy 6's main theme.

I liked the theme Soule composed for Natural Selection (the Half-Life mod), especially the end-of-round theme (about a minute in to "ambient1") http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/audio/

OCRemix was mentioned in another thread (a great site), it's worth noting that Jeremy Soule himself contributed a remix of Final Fantasy 6's main theme.

I liked the theme Soule composed for Natural Selection (the Half-Life mod), especially the end-of-round theme (about a minute in to "ambient1") http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/audio/

I'm not sure if it's the song, the game, or both, but "To Far Away Times" nearly brings me to tears when I hear it (no joke). It's a travesty to not mention that song on the top 10.

As a side note, it's interesting to see video game music re-imagined. There's a lot of tripe, but OC Remix is a great place to find video game music, from old to new.

You can get the CT soundtrack here, under chiptunes. It is indeed a masterpiece.

Mostly just posting in AoL "Me Too" mode, to say that all the composers on that list are worth checking out. There's some great stuff that gets made as video game soundtracks, even though the music is very good in it's own right. A few additions:

1) Yasunori Mitsuda did the Xenogears soundtrack a long time before Xenosaga Ep1's. The Xenosaga soundtrack draws a lot from the older Xenogears soundtrack, and I think the arranged version of Xenogears, Creid, is one his best albums. Chrono Cross is also amazing.

2) Not as good on average as the ones you listed, but Motoi Sakuraba (Valkyrie Profile, Star Ocean, Tales Of *) has some good stuff too.

3) Remix communities (and it's not all techno) have done some really good stuff with existing soundtracks. Check out OC Remix for a good example. Example of non-techno stuff: Chrono Symphonic.

Mostly just posting in AoL "Me Too" mode, to say that all the composers on that list are worth checking out. There's some great stuff that gets made as video game soundtracks, even though the music is very good in it's own right. A few additions:

1) Yasunori Mitsuda did the Xenogears soundtrack a long time before Xenosaga Ep1's. The Xenosaga soundtrack draws a lot from the older Xenogears soundtrack, and I think the arranged version of Xenogears, Creid, is one his best albums. Chrono Cross is also amazing.

2) Not as good on average as the ones you listed, but Motoi Sakuraba (Valkyrie Profile, Star Ocean, Tales Of *) has some good stuff too.

3) Remix communities (and it's not all techno) have done some really good stuff with existing soundtracks. Check out OC Remix for a good example. Example of non-techno stuff: Chrono Symphonic.

Original game music:
-Might and Magic (and Heroes). Might and Magic VI, VII, and VIII had the tunes as CD tracks so they are easy to get if you own the game. Heores III had them as MP3s so that's even easier. I think most of the tunes are by Rob King. VII is my favorite
-Silent Hill 3 has a great soundtrack included with the PS2 game (at least the one I got).
-Oblivion. "atmosphere_07" is awesome. The theme is good as well, but Morrowind's is better.
-Wing Commander Privateer has some great tunes, esepically the New Constanople and Perry music. It is probably still there somewhere, but I downloaded all the tunes from http://www.wcnews.com/. I couldn't find it after a quick search.

Remixes: -Sonic the Hedgehog 1 - Marble Zone. http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01416/ -Lots of Final Fantasy remixes. "To Zanarkand" has a couple good ones.

Album Rexies:
-Final Fantasy 7 - Voices of the Lifestream http://www.ocremix.org/album/final-fantasy-vii-voices-of-the-lifestream/. Cid's Theme starts out wierd, but gets good. The Prelude and Main theme are good.
-Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo - Blood on the Asphalt http://www.ocremix.org/album/super-street-fighter-ii-turbo-blood-on-the-asphalt/ Cammy, Ryu, Ken, Guile, Sagat, and Balrog stages are my favorite.

Original game music:
-Might and Magic (and Heroes). Might and Magic VI, VII, and VIII had the tunes as CD tracks so they are easy to get if you own the game. Heores III had them as MP3s so that's even easier. I think most of the tunes are by Rob King. VII is my favorite
-Silent Hill 3 has a great soundtrack included with the PS2 game (at least the one I got).
-Oblivion. "atmosphere_07" is awesome. The theme is good as well, but Morrowind's is better.
-Wing Commander Privateer has some great tunes, esepically the New Constanople and Perry music. It is probably still there somewhere, but I downloaded all the tunes from http://www.wcnews.com/. I couldn't find it after a quick search.

Remixes: -Sonic the Hedgehog 1 - Marble Zone. http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01416/ -Lots of Final Fantasy remixes. "To Zanarkand" has a couple good ones.

Album Rexies:
-Final Fantasy 7 - Voices of the Lifestream http://www.ocremix.org/album/final-fantasy-vii-voices-of-the-lifestream/. Cid's Theme starts out wierd, but gets good. The Prelude and Main theme are good.
-Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo - Blood on the Asphalt http://www.ocremix.org/album/super-street-fighter-ii-turbo-blood-on-the-asphalt/ Cammy, Ryu, Ken, Guile, Sagat, and Balrog stages are my favorite.

Original game music:
-Might and Magic (and Heroes). Might and Magic VI, VII, and VIII had the tunes as CD tracks so they are easy to get if you own the game. Heores III had them as MP3s so that's even easier. I think most of the tunes are by Rob King. VII is my favorite
-Silent Hill 3 has a great soundtrack included with the PS2 game (at least the one I got).
-Oblivion. "atmosphere_07" is awesome. The theme is good as well, but Morrowind's is better.
-Wing Commander Privateer has some great tunes, esepically the New Constanople and Perry music. It is probably still there somewhere, but I downloaded all the tunes from http://www.wcnews.com/. I couldn't find it after a quick search.

Remixes: -Sonic the Hedgehog 1 - Marble Zone. http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01416/ -Lots of Final Fantasy remixes. "To Zanarkand" has a couple good ones.

Album Rexies:
-Final Fantasy 7 - Voices of the Lifestream http://www.ocremix.org/album/final-fantasy-vii-voices-of-the-lifestream/. Cid's Theme starts out wierd, but gets good. The Prelude and Main theme are good.
-Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo - Blood on the Asphalt http://www.ocremix.org/album/super-street-fighter-ii-turbo-blood-on-the-asphalt/ Cammy, Ryu, Ken, Guile, Sagat, and Balrog stages are my favorite.

Blue Lightning is its name. The link is to one of my favorite mixes of it.

It's kind of funny, but when I was kid for quite a while I would -only- listen to video game music, and had sort of a disdain for "normal" music. I guess that changed sometime in middle school, and I like all sorts of music now, but I still have a fondness for VG music. Here's a few more of my personal favorites, not listed in the article:

* "Radio" from Command and Conquer: Red Alert
* menu song from Forsaken (it's track 6 or 7 on the game CD... not sure if it has an actual title but the band that performed it is "The Swarm")
* "Tangerine" from Earthworm Jim 2 (soundtrack by Tommy Tallarico)
* the intro song from Earthworm Jim 2... I don't think I've ever seen it on a CD, but it's probably the first "a cappella" song I ever saw in a video game, even though it was just samples on a SNES/Genesis
* most of Mechwarrior II
* most of Katamari Damacy
* "Beyond the Bounds" from Zone of the Enders: Second Runner
* the operatic tracks from Heroes of Might & Magic II
* most of the Interstate '76 soundtrack
* one of the songs from Dr. Mario ("fever"?).
* "Skyward Fire" and "Save Me" from Unreal Tournament

Also, for those of you who haven't seen it already, OverClocked Remix has plenty of great freely-downloadable remixes of video game songs:

http://www.ocremix.org/

Wow. I never realised there was real music --- I only ever played the DOS version, which produces... er... sounds via the PC speaker. Cool.

Don't forget the OCRemix remixes.

I was the same way in the 90's. I found the wave of impressive metal tunes rather impressive, almost nourishing. The emotional content was almost meaningless - but the intricacy and drive behind the chords made up for the annoyance with the manipulative and occasionally insipid emotional content of the songs.

It's hard to find music that holds a lot of interesting 'content' per second of sound. Perhaps in a signal-to-noise ratio, where crooning voices or cheap noise effects, metal just held the greatest signal for what I was listening for. Later, I found fast ska and electronic music of various sorts to hold even more of that same value, with less of the cheap emotion of metal.

Nowadays, my time spent listening to actual music is very little, but when I do, it is dominated by highly creative video game remixes. I find that the video game remix community consistently outperforms most other music both in terms of variety and interest per minute spent listening. But really, I don't listen to much music, when I can be listening to a nice science podcast, BBC documentary, or just considering my own thoughts in this short, wonderful little life I have.

Ryan Fenton

The soundtrack to Rygar was always one of my favorites. Actraiser had some good themes too, even though the Kasandora song tribute sounds suspiciously like Richard Marx's "Hazard".

And Castlevania -- just listen to Bloody Hell from Ailsean and Kaijin over at OCRemix. Damn, I dare you to try that on Expert!

Anyone who wants to spread video game music to others should check out OcRemix. They have good mixes, and have created full albums of certain games, like Metroid and Chrono Trigger, and Doom. http://www.ocremix.org/

http://www.ocremix.org/ Having downloaded torrents of NerdCore and OCRemix torrents I can honestly say I prefer OCremix stuff better. Sure there is little 'singing' with it but the majority is a lot less offensive. I prefer my music suitable for all ages.

Yes [since I know someone will bring it up], if you plan to remix it ... use flac

.... off my Internet, asshole. There's enough shitty "remixes" of people sticking 15 seconds of new audio at the beginning of a track, or superimposing a drumline or some sort of beat, or speeding up/slowing down the song and looping spots. You want remixes, get some real ones.

If you like the soundtrack to Delta heres a nice piece: 'Space Grind'

No, that's just how you have to wade through unfiltered stuff. 90% of everything is crap. The thing is, the 10% that isn't is different for everybody.

I use a similar process for OCRemix.org; there are torrents of the songs you can grab, about 1500, then I just filter through the list once, pluck out the ones I like, and trash the rest. I'd say I'm keeping about 5%, if that, but that's still some neat music you won't find any other way.

(Also, grab the Doom torrent. You'd never know that wasn't a full professionial production.)

No, that's just how you have to wade through unfiltered stuff. 90% of everything is crap. The thing is, the 10% that isn't is different for everybody.

I use a similar process for OCRemix.org; there are torrents of the songs you can grab, about 1500, then I just filter through the list once, pluck out the ones I like, and trash the rest. I'd say I'm keeping about 5%, if that, but that's still some neat music you won't find any other way.

(Also, grab the Doom torrent. You'd never know that wasn't a full professionial production.)

>Who verifies that they indeed shared copyrighted material and not something that's perfectly legal to share (say, a Linux .iso)?

Or even free domain music files such as, oh, I dunno... the whole OverClocked ReMix library?

comparing an orange to a Ferrari 911

A Ferrari 911? Did Ferrari buy Porsche and not tell anyone? :)

Great and lots of programmers (oh yeah sure, just 'buy the engine', don't give me that)

Why not go buy an engine? Get one or two good programmers, get a cheap engine from someone like Garage Games, and focus on your real assets. The market is going more and more towards splitting into "engine developers" and "game developers". Id rarely even builds games anymore, preferring to focus on their engine creation (they work with third parties like Grey Matter or Raven to build games like Enemy Territories and Quake IV). Epic focuses on building the Unreal technology while letting 2nd and 3rd parties like Digital Illusions and Ubisoft build games around them. There's nothing wrong with licensing technology, and you're probably better off for doing so (you can get more and better technology than what you would be able to develop while trying to make a game to make money at the same time).

Great script

Great gameplay (so difficult to pinpoint and define, isn't it?)

I would argue these are the same thing. If your gameplay is RPG-style, you need an excellent script. If your gameplay is something like Katamari, script doesn't really matter much.

Great music and sound effects

This really depends on your gameplay. One guy with a mic and the willingness to make stupid sounds with his mouth will get you all of the sound effects you need. Music is harder, and yet easier at the same time. Depending on your game, you may not even need music (I'd rather listen to the sound of the engine in a racing game) or you could allow the player to provide the music. Other games need good music, but that shouldn't be too hard to come by. There are starving musicians everywhere. You just need to find them. Put up posters around the local college campus. Troll the boards online at places like Song Fight or Overclocked Remix. For a minor outlay of cash ($500-$1000 is probably more than enough in most cases), you can get some pretty excellent music for your game.

Great voice actors

I'd really recommend indie developers stay away from voice acting. Nintendo rarely uses it, and everybody loves their games (in fact, when they do use voice acting it's usually annoying. Hey! Listen!). Skip the expense by skipping the voice actors. Of course, you could do it in a humorous way and use your developers as the actors. Don't do this if you're going for "serious"!

Great characters (Deus Ex)

Again, this goes back to script/gameplay. You may not need characters at all if you're building a puzzle game. If you can't come up with great characters while writing your script or designing your gameplay, then you failed on the script or gameplay.

Great graphics (these days... sigh)

Then why does everybody here always say they prefer gameplay to graphics? You really have to think about your target. You're probably not going to be able to compete with the big boys in terms of graphics goo-gawgery, so don't try. You'll need something better than developer art, but not by much.

Multiplayer functionality

Depends on your game. Stardock consciously decided against multiplayer for GalCiv2 and that game is doing very well.

The central theme I've noticed in my replies

TorrentSpy is a tool which some use for unlawful purposes.

. . . and the same can be said of any other tool - hammers, nails, cars, gunpowder, lengths of pipe.

The only difference here is that it's a tool for use "ON TEH INT3RN3TZ0RZ!!1!1!111!!1111!!!1eleventyone!!!1!11! 121!11!forty-two!111!11!11omg 3y3 8 j00r r4m3n n00dl3z!!!1!11! OMG 3V4L P1R4T3Z ARE USING IT TO STEAL OUR MOVIES! OMG SUESUESUESUESUESUE! CALL TEH 31337 SHOCK LAWYERS!"

TorrentSpy facilitates unlawful copying as much as any home improvement store facilitates the breaking of windows by selling bricks. It's a tool. It's neither inherently good nor evil. It can, however, be used for either purpose (good or evil).

And one good use for torrent networks (and other forms of P2P filesharing) is distribution of stuff from OverClocked ReMix and Rant Media.

Now if only the MPAA could get it through their thick skulls that they can use torrent networks to their advantage . . .

Wait a minute, am I fucking insane? The MPAA is a bunch of fucking Neanderthals. Either they evolve (doubtful) or die* (preferable).








*hey nsa and other law-enforcement/surveillance organizations - any comments made about the mpaa dying should not be construed as threats of violence. thank you for your attention, and i hope you don't get screwed over too badly by the illegal wiretapping lawsuits.

Frostwire (a free fork of Limewire without the DRMA crap) and mIRC are two programs that I know of that the user doesn't specifically *HAVE* to share files. If one sets up Frostwire correctly, it will neither share downloads, nor anything else. By default, though, FW does share all files downloaded by the user until he/she moves them out of the incoming directory.

With mIRC, the process is rather detailed, and not very n00b friendly. There are several helper programs, (such as OmenServe's Addons (AutoGet specifically. A GUI interface for your mIRC downloading needs.))

I do share over 2,000 files, but they are all 100% legal, public-domain .MP3 files. I have the almost the entire collection from OverClocked Remix that I use to "pad my stats" if you will. Though, I don't know if "padding" is the right term, since that's the only thing that I allow to go out from my system.

you should check out http://www.ocremix.org/. Great place if you like that kind of stuff. Has everything form techno, rock, to orchestral. There's some really good stuff.