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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. Re:Forget p2p and torrents by bobjohnson · · Score: 1, Informative

    Bob has 2Gig of mp3s. Jane has 5Gig of mp3s. If they share via 1Gb/s (local) ethernet, they will quickly both have 8Gigs each.

    Uhh, is that new math? I keep checking and rechecking, but 2+5 = 7 every time, are you sure about that one, winston?

  2. konspire2b by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sounds like you might enjoy konspire2b

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    Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
  3. Re:minor hypocrisy by chatooya · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hey, this is Nick from Downhill Battle. Yeah, I agree that those ads are pretty bad, and we actually blocked a couple that were even more egregious. We're just trying to make a little bit of money back to pay for hosting and whatnot. Hopefully, we can get our fundraising together better and not do ads on any of our stuff.

  4. Re:Downhill Battle lost all credibility with me... by chatooya · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hey this is Nick from Downhill Battle again. First, I think those are pretty clearly meant to be humourous captions, so I think it's a little silly to even get into it, but let me respond. I don't see how the second to last caption is even an issue-- it's a joke about filesharing and we strongly believe that the value of being able to listen to any music in the world should be defended and a licensing system can make it work for musicians. As for the last caption, the real reason that we returned the camera was because it was crappy. We needed a camera, we got it, started using it, and it wasn't worth keeping. I don't see how this is an ethical issue-- Walmart just puts it back on the shelf and that return policy is there in the first place because it makes them money.

  5. Re:BitTorrent is nice. by iso · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not sure why you need to do this manually anymore. Most torrent sites already publish RSS information and good BitTorrent clients have RSS reading either built into them, or can do it through a plugin.

    I personally use the client Azureus (which works on Linux as well as others), with the RSSFeed plugin. It works very well.

  6. Re:Downhill Battle lost all credibility with me... by chatooya · · Score: 2, Informative

    Come on, this is ridiculous. If you disagree with what we're saying, then that's fine, but don't imply positions that we've never taken.