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Blog Torrent: Downhill Battle Interview

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

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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  1. huh? by StevenHenderson · · Score: 5, Funny

    alternative ways to buy music

    buy? ...music? wtf?

  2. Re:MOD PARENT +5 INSIGHTFUL by StevenHenderson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is this AC trying to be me? Is this a new trick? Please dont mod me offtopic - just never seen anyone try to pull this and wanted to keep my ident up there

  3. Re:Forget p2p and torrents by stromthurman · · Score: 3, Funny

    I suspect so, for sufficiently large values of 2.

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  4. Re:Forget p2p and torrents by AKAImBatman · · Score: 2, Funny

    It must be from... uhh... wasted space from partly allocated disk blocks. Yeah, that's the ticket! One gigabyte of wasted space! Err... did I mention I'm using the FAT file system? With... err... 64K block sizes. Yeah, that's it! 64K! It's so I can... umm... have compatibility with Linux. Yeah, yeah. Because NTFS writes... ehh... are unsupported by Fedora Core 3. Yeah, that's it! ;-)

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  5. Re:my suggestion -from a musician by Agent+Green · · Score: 4, Funny

    Alpo already comes in can and bag form, is loaded with nutrients and proteins...and if it's good enough for your dog, it's almost certainly good enough for you. :)

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  6. Re:Forget p2p and torrents by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, not really. There's bound to be a considerable amount of duplication between their two collections. Let's call it 6Gigs each.

    However, in RIAA math that will be 16Gigs of stolen music (taking your latter figure), which is really the equivilent of 832Gigs of stolen music resulting damages of more dollars than there are fundamental particles in the universe.

    But the RIAA will settle for whatever they've got in their piggy banks and a public service announcement that they were evil hackers, which is just plain wrong.

    KFG

  7. Re:WTF ? 5 + 2 = 8 ?!? by real_smiff · · Score: 3, Funny

    you forgot the 1GB of ethernet.

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  8. Re:BitTorrent is nice. by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jesus fucking Christ. Stealing music isn't good enough for you any more, now you want people to deliver stolen music to you?

    Holy fuck.

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