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Re: The M/F thread - '08a reboot! Still with no requests!
Jrod:
so is mediaf!re considered one of these p2p sites that are being monitored?
or is it mostly stuff like kazaa, limewire, sharebear or w/e?
sail2themoon:
Jrod
If it makes you feel any better I go to a school that claims to be cracking down on people downloading music. I've downloaded a lot from this site since last year and nothing bad has ever happened to me. Stay away from limewire and sharing programs like that and you should be fine
imapiratearg:
--- Quote from: wespeakinmidi on 14 Sep 2008, 20:21 ---agreed. be careful, my ex girlfriend brought her laptop to a unnamed boston college and when she hooked her computer up to the network, she was later brought through a lawsuit for illegally downloading music. some of which i don't even think was downloaded on the campus network. anyway, as far as i know, they track all that stuff through p2p sharing. monitoring what is being downloaded on every computer that is not p2p would be some sort of privacy violation wouldn't it? anyway, in the end, she paid about $5,000 for her lawyer, and i don't even want to tell you what the initial charges per song were. download safely.
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It's mostly the larger, more reputable universities, I think. I don't think a regular state college would bother to do more than a warning or a bandwidth cap. One of my friends goes to the University of Vermont and torrents stuff fairly frequently, I think, and she's never had a problem.
Harun:
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
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yes it's real, and it's real real good
DMart:
If you're cluttering this thread with talk of the RIAA then THE RIAA HAS ALREADY WON.
Because of Ghosts - Your House is Built on a Frozen Lake
--- Quote from: halo17 ---It is not possible to listen to this EP without being brought in mind of The Dirty Three. Both trios hail from Melbourne, both blend stark, moody post-rock with jazz sensibilities and musicality, and The Dirty Three have long enjoyed the critical acclaim that Because Of Ghosts are only now starting to receive as they make a name for themselves in Victoria.
Your House is Built on a Frozen Lake is a twenty-five minute journey through melancholy and raw, noir introspection that aches as it carries you from track to track. The EP opens with a minute and a half of eerie harmonics and the random strings of a tortured guitar which emerges as the driving Upward! Forwards! before being stripped back again to the off-key guitar plucking of the wryly-titled There's Nowhere Else To Put Them, a track which features the sound of a man digging a hole. A Simple Dare surprises as a partially-obscured woman's voice cuts in and tells the tale of a childhood prank gone wrong over a much more solid guitar piece that really brings the melancholy home.
The album then seems to start again, breaking into a minute and a half of random guitar plucking that comes together into the very raw, under-produced I Always Thought But I Never Said. It's followed by the even more melancholic You Fool, a gorgeous, quiet rambling that includes the child-like tinkling of a glockenspiel and the faint, barely audible lilting of a man in the background, rising to a crescendo that delivers you into A Waltz for Berenice. This is for me the standout track on the album, with brilliant drumming and a perfectly imprecise guitar that is balanced and complemented by a sad, emotive cello.
Your House is Built on a Frozen Lake has two big strengths. Firstly it is a very free album, unconstrained, wandering from song to song, sometimes dawdling before arriving - it doesn't rush, and that makes this EP feel complete in a way that most EPs don't, a single story rather than a collection of pre-album songs, which makes it something you can listen to again and again.
Secondly, the musicality of the artists is undeniable. Each string is plucked at just the right moment, every sound is perfectly placed, and yet the EP sounds organic and natural rather than contrived - an appearance the light, atmospheric production enhances. Another similarity between Because of Ghosts and The Dirty Three is that both their drummers share an impeccable sense of timing and a very light touch, which is very important because a heavier drummer could easily overwhelm the delicate music here, while a tentative drummer could fade out, leaving the album without a proper grounding.
The precise instrumentation and the free, rambling attitude here combine to make Your House is Built on a Frozen Lake a much darker, and infinitely more emotional experience than the trio's previous releases, and it bodes well for the future. Having heard this EP, I am very much looking forward to what Because of Ghosts bring us this year.
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