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jeph:
I hate it when my suicide attempts get stuck at 99%
thelightguy:
Don't worry, most of the time when a torrent gets stuck at 99% it's just the paper casing that's missing, you'll still get the full force of the pellets.
Tom:
Years back when i used different things my rope would just get frayed.
Johnny C:
DJ Rupture wrote a great piece from the perspective of a musician who is also an OiNK user.
Johnny C:
Also, how come every article about this has at least one person sounding like a complete arse? The IFPI guy says,
--- Quote ---This was not a case of friends sharing music for pleasure
--- End quote ---
which is only technically right insofar as I'm not actually friends with the people that downloaded the music. Well, most of them anyhow. I guess it's technically wrong if you count the invites I gave to two of my friends.
A Cleveland police officer, quoted in a BBC article:
--- Quote ---This extremely lucrative and creative scheme
--- End quote ---
And the article Lise linked? The guy from Sub Pop comes across as a huge jackass. Look at this:
--- Quote ---Sub Pop A&R rep Stuart Meyer concurs. "The Shins album sold 118,000 copies its first week, which was beyond our expectations," he says. "Would it have sold more than that five or ten years ago? Probably -- but 118,000 for a band like that is pretty amazing."
--- End quote ---
Emphasis mine. Mr. Meyer, while I'm sure your intentions regarding your artists are all well and good, you're on a label with literally three gold records to its name. Over a hundred thousand copies in the first week for a band on your label, and you think that ten years ago without the filesharing and pre-release buzz you would have actually sold more?
Honestly why do labels let their reps drop turds like this out of their mouths?
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