Nope it's been available for a really really long time as a "harvester" of sorts.
napshare allows you to set up bot rules to snag everything that matches "butthole surfers mp3 moving to florida" will attempt to snage EVERYTHING that matches that search. so if you leave it running for a week, you're hard drive will be full of 90,000 copies of that song.... that's the bad part. the good part? leave it going overnight, and delete the 80 crappy ones and keep that one 256VBR ot 192 bitrate mp3 that was encoded propery and with a good encoder.
remember just getting it is the easy part... getting an mp3 that isn't crappy is the hard part.... only one out of every 20 mp3's of the same song is worth downloading, the other 19 are crap. and the ratio is getting worse.
-- Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Re:Good plan, though
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joshsisk
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If you think it's a myth, check out this article by Steve Albini. In case you don't know who he is, Albini is a career musician who, among his other accomplishments, produced at least one Nirvana album.
Make sure to check out his royalty breakdown at the bottom, based on his experience working in the record industry. It's pretty interesting stuff.
Re:The Moral Thing to do
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Anonymous Coward
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> Remember that they spend money promoting the bands too. You might not get to hear some good bands because the record comanies did not "discover" them.
Guess what ? Online music communities would just do that.
And that's exactly what record label fear. The end of their business model.
Re:Good plan, though
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kidlinux
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· Score: 3, Informative
Did you read the whole article? Like this part, for example:
"I bought a ridiculous number of CDs while I worked there, because I found out about music that I wouldn't have otherwise."
I can say the same thing. Over a half of my 200 CD collection is due to AudioGalaxy (it was my file sharing app of choice.) That's 100+ legitimate CD purchases due to file sharing, and file sharing only. Gee, who'd have figured, eh?
If Kennon Ballou did it, and I did it, it makes me wonder how many other people did too.
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Burn the CDs, see the show and buy a T-Shirt, the artist will get a much greater percentage of your money.
Record Labels and distributors get something like 90% of CD revenue.
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Nope it's been available for a really really long time as a "harvester" of sorts.
napshare allows you to set up bot rules to snag everything that matches "butthole surfers mp3 moving to florida" will attempt to snage EVERYTHING that matches that search. so if you leave it running for a week, you're hard drive will be full of 90,000 copies of that song.... that's the bad part. the good part? leave it going overnight, and delete the 80 crappy ones and keep that one 256VBR ot 192 bitrate mp3 that was encoded propery and with a good encoder.
remember just getting it is the easy part... getting an mp3 that isn't crappy is the hard part.... only one out of every 20 mp3's of the same song is worth downloading, the other 19 are crap. and the ratio is getting worse.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
If you think it's a myth, check out this article by Steve Albini. In case you don't know who he is, Albini is a career musician who, among his other accomplishments, produced at least one Nirvana album.
Make sure to check out his royalty breakdown at the bottom, based on his experience working in the record industry. It's pretty interesting stuff.
> Remember that they spend money promoting the bands too. You might not get to hear some good bands because the record comanies did not "discover" them.
Guess what ? Online music communities would just do that.
And that's exactly what record label fear. The end of their business model.
Did you read the whole article? Like this part, for example:
"I bought a ridiculous number of CDs while I worked there, because I found out about music that I wouldn't have otherwise."
I can say the same thing. Over a half of my 200 CD collection is due to AudioGalaxy (it was my file sharing app of choice.) That's 100+ legitimate CD purchases due to file sharing, and file sharing only.
Gee, who'd have figured, eh?
If Kennon Ballou did it, and I did it, it makes me wonder how many other people did too.
-kidlinux.