A Record Label That Embraces BitTorrent
from the good-for-them dept
While the major record labels still insist that BitTorrent and any sort of file sharing is evil and needs to be wiped out, it's great to see some indie record labels fully embracing how BitTorrent is actually a much cheaper and much more efficient distribution and marketing tool. Take, for example, Open Your Eyes Records, who not only embraces BitTorrent, but has now teamed up with one BitTorrent tracker, What.cd, to distribute all new tracks that way. Even though for many readers here this doesn't need to be repeated, this is (once again) more evidence that BitTorrent and BitTorrent trackers have plenty of legitimate purposes -- and the efforts to shut them down completely are quite short sighted.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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The availablity of BT notwithstanding, I am still leery of downloading files from unknown persons sharing such files. I still much prefer downloading from the "horse's mouth", so to speak.
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You could take a minute to learn about BT and you will see how your last comment is just uneducated..
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No difference really.
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Please correct me if I am wrong, but I am not aware of anything that prevents others from placing identically named files in a share folder, which files contain a "bit more" than just the original file. It is this "bit more" that is my cause for concern.
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I have problems inserting files that I know are the exact files that I'm downloading (so I don't have to download them again but can still seed them). Unless the torrent program sees exactly what it expects to see it will just error out.
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Shared folder? Really dude. Go google it or something. Wiki's got pretty decent info on how bit torrent works.
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Thanks!
Thanks again,
Eric Stone
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Robert Fripp/Discipline Global Mobile
Robert Fripp of King Crimson fame has been using an internet/bit torrent based model for years. Under his Discipline Global Mobile label, he has been providing live Crimson concert recordings as well as recordings from other artists for sale.
https://www.dgmlive.com/archive.htm
It's quite a back catalog of live recordings, if you have ever seen a Crimson show, odds are that you might find it here.
DGM came about after Fripp, like most artist, sustained years of abuse at the hands of traditional labels. The intent of DGM as a label as well as Fripp's perceived successes and failures in the venture are described in the about DGM section.
http://www.dgmlive.com/about.htm
It sounds like he half has it right with embracing the internet but he has not figured out the promotional value part.
Perhaps this is where someone like Mike could introduce himself and show the other possibilities for successful business models in the internet age.
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