When the RIAA starts DDoSing people for using p2p software, that will affect other users on the offender's network. It will result in lowered bandwidth.. Now, I don't know about YOU all, but I am paying out the ass for broadband so that I have HIGH SPEEDS..
So honestly (and this is not a rhetorical question) what will it take to get to the point where I can have lower-cost broadband, download songs to check out (you know, kinda like going to a friend's house to listen to a record before you bought it back in the analog days) and decide if I want to buy it without the riaa hassling me????
How is it that you think when a band gets uploaded to a site like the ones mentioned that it cuts down on the chances of being passed around on a p2p network? And also, how is this automatically a bad thing? My band uploaded our mp3s to mp3.com a while back, and let me tell you we were all ecstatic the day we found out we were being passed around (in small doses) on kazaa. The best reason to do something (like making music or art) is because you love to do it. Not because you are a greedy bastard only in it for the money. I mean, the money is nice too but that's what day jobs are for. I dont plan to quit mine.
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When the RIAA starts DDoSing people for using p2p software, that will affect other users on the offender's network. It will result in lowered bandwidth.. Now, I don't know about YOU all, but I am paying out the ass for broadband so that I have HIGH SPEEDS.. So honestly (and this is not a rhetorical question) what will it take to get to the point where I can have lower-cost broadband, download songs to check out (you know, kinda like going to a friend's house to listen to a record before you bought it back in the analog days) and decide if I want to buy it without the riaa hassling me????
Yeah, it's pretty bad when fark.com gets stories weeks ahead of /.
I prefer to just microwave mine..
around here, we call that a 'taint..
How is it that you think when a band gets uploaded to a site like the ones mentioned that it cuts down on the chances of being passed around on a p2p network? And also, how is this automatically a bad thing?
My band uploaded our mp3s to mp3.com a while back, and let me tell you we were all ecstatic the day we found out we were being passed around (in small doses) on kazaa.
The best reason to do something (like making music or art) is because you love to do it. Not because you are a greedy bastard only in it for the money.
I mean, the money is nice too but that's what day jobs are for. I dont plan to quit mine.