Yeah, it is hard to search for a band you never heard of, but it isn't hard to search for a band you have never heard. The music I listen to isn't played on the radio, and I have only met a single person in real life who is into it as much as I am. So the only way I have to find bands I like is to look through fan pages and review pages and try to find samples of their songs. I'm usually not successful with napster tho, I can only find more "popular" stuff like death metal... good luck finding any Clotted Symmetric Sexual Organ or Last Days of Humanity on it... IRC is a much better way to find specific genres.
What I'm wondering is, did they find Napster users publishing Metalllica or did they just Napster users? Also, how many users with metallica covers and/or fake songs did they get? I know some people who were pissed at the whole suing nonsense so they renamed a bunch of death metal songs as fake metallica songs and put em on napster. Haha, oh well.
Every artist I've seen who's had anything to say about the matter has been in favor of the format.
Errr... here's one that doesn't:
"About MP3's...well basically I don't like them at all. I've never downloaded one myself as I still believe in the old-fashioned "go buy the real thing". I would not appreciate if someone posted the entire album as it would risk damaging the sales. People compare it to the old tapes and shit like that. That was and still is illegal. Don't you remember the inner sleeves to some Lp's that said : "Hometaping is killing music!"?? I consider this however to be a completely different thing as the tapes were used mainly for personal use. MP3's makes the album available for free for anyone who wants it. That's like bootlegging without earning any money. As a collector I've bough several bootlegs myself, but only recordings of live shows, not a official Cd. It is indeed a difference, and I'd no problems with people recording and releasing Opeth live shows above the law. Hell, I'd buy it myself. Samples are more than OK for me. That's like doing commercials for the album, but putting up the entire record is whether you like it or not, a rip-off. And it might cause big legal problems for that person as well. I've been through this thing once before with this album. A guy posted the entire album before it was even out. He thought he was doing us a favour." (Mikael Akerfeldt from
Opeth)
Heh, if it wasn't for mp3s, I wouldn't own all four of their albums... but not all artists like mp3s. Oh well.
Yep, there is. For IE, go to the security tab under internet options. Click on the restricted sites, then click the "Sites." button under it. Type in the sites you want to block em out on (*.geocities.com, etc.). Click ok, then "Custom Level" at the bottom. You can disable everything or just "Active Scripting" which will get rid of the popups. -ruD
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Insults the reviewers?! I'm more insulted that the reviewers try to spew 3D Marks everywhere like they are a meaningful unit of measure.
LOL, poor grammar ain't Engrish.
That's not Engrish it's a typo. Silly.
Hahah, tell me about it! My proxy at wouldn't let me go to tubcat.com. Pornographic it says! Hmmph!
Lol... Purdue is in the cornfields of Indiana.
Yeah, it is hard to search for a band you never heard of, but it isn't hard to search for a band you have never heard. The music I listen to isn't played on the radio, and I have only met a single person in real life who is into it as much as I am. So the only way I have to find bands I like is to look through fan pages and review pages and try to find samples of their songs. I'm usually not successful with napster tho, I can only find more "popular" stuff like death metal... good luck finding any Clotted Symmetric Sexual Organ or Last Days of Humanity on it... IRC is a much better way to find specific genres.
-ruD
where is all of this music that never gets played on the radio?
Obscure music is on IRC, try #mp3_darkwave on dalnet for L.S.D.... -ruD
What I'm wondering is, did they find Napster users publishing Metalllica or did they just Napster users? Also, how many users with metallica covers and/or fake songs did they get? I know some people who were pissed at the whole suing nonsense so they renamed a bunch of death metal songs as fake metallica songs and put em on napster. Haha, oh well.
Errr... here's one that doesn't:
Heh, if it wasn't for mp3s, I wouldn't own all four of their albums... but not all artists like mp3s. Oh well.
Yep, there is. For IE, go to the security tab under internet options. Click on the restricted sites, then click the "Sites." button under it. Type in the sites you want to block em out on (*.geocities.com, etc.). Click ok, then "Custom Level" at the bottom. You can disable everything or just "Active Scripting" which will get rid of the popups. -ruD