Blog Torrent: Downhill Battle Interview

scubacuda writes "In this GrepLaw interview, Downhill Battle's Nicholas Reville describes the success (and takedown) of SP2Torrent.com, alternative ways to buy music, what indie musicians think about filesharing, and real ways to counter threats to creativity and an open culture. Those excited about the possibilities of Bittorrent will especially appreciate Downhill Battle's Blog Torrent, an easy-to-install program that will dramatically simplify the creation, posting, and seeding of new torrents."

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[antifoidulus]

it's just musing for fucking crying out loud!!!
I love how people like this pretend to be big crusaders for the rights of the little man, but it's just fucking music. Take a step back, look at it, and realize, it is just fucking music!
Peoeple survived long before music was available for the masses at all, and something tells me you cna survive without music. If you don't like the tactics of the RIAA, don't buy their music, don't download their music. Somehting tells me it won't kill you or really affect your life in any drastic way.
There are much bigger issues out there, we don't need anyone pretending to be a hero by flaunting copyright law more than we need to find a way to cure world hunger, or solve the impending water and oil crises....
This will get mmodded as flamebait, but I don't care, I really think people need to take a step back and realize, "Hey, it's only fucking music, why are we getting this worked up over it?"

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[IgnoramusMaximus]

You are absolutely right. Copyright is an abomination created by filthy thieves. I mean it. All they do is thieve from the society by making small variations to the common body of knowledge and then demand perpetual payments.

From another perspective, this is a wider issue then just music. It really is about treating information, data, as "property" and thus applying capitalist principles in places where they do not belong. It leads to "commoditization" of DNA seqences, mathematical forumlaes etc etc. It just total nonsense and it has to stop before irreversible harm is done to society.

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[black mariah]

You're an idiot, and quite obviously not a musician. Your frame of reference is only classical music... you're a stuck-up cunt... you wouldn't happen to be an audiophile, would you?

How about this... you quit your job and hit the road with a band. No, sorry, you don't get to go out with Britney Spears or anyone else that doesn't actually play an instrument. You have to go out with REAL, WORKING musicians. You have to sit in a van for 8-16 hours a day, load in and out, setup and breakdown, eat what they eat, sleep where they sleep. You have to hope to holy fuck that the cockmunch at the venue actually pays you the $150 that you are supposed to get because if you don't you have $15 in your pocket to feed five people and a van on the way to your next gig, 500 miles away. Where the FUCK does a cock like you get off telling ME what I can and can't do with what I make? Fuck you and every cuntrag that thinks like you. This is my LIFE, this is my PASSION, this is my JOB. FUCK. YOU. and your goddamned bullshit warped fucking world view. You want to know what REAL musicians do? Go the fuck outside. Go to a club. Talk to some of the bands that are playing. Would YOU drive a thousand miles to play for five people on a Thursday night?

What retards like yourself don't understand is that for MOST bands, CD sales are important. Not so they can buy new Mercedes and do blow off a hookers ass, but so they can fucking EAT while they're on the road.

Again, to reiterate my point, FUCK YOU.

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[radish]

If no one is coming to your gigs, it's because they don't want to hear your music. Take the hint.

Re:People

[black mariah]

I love it when smarmy cocks like you make comments regarding the amount of people at shows. It's called 'paying dues', dumbass. In one area you might draw 500 people to a show, but 100 miles away you bring in 5 people because nobody's fucking heard of you. In December, we hit the road for a couple of weeks on a west coast tour. We'll draw nothing. Nobody has heard of us out there. Here, we can pull 100+ without breaking a sweat. Regional support. Look it up.