.torrent - Now I get it!
Previously the whole P2P music download revolution – as personified by Napster, Soulseek, et al – had kind of passed me by.
I’m an old-fashioned kind of a guy, I like my CDs to come in a nice box with a little booklet I can flip through and a nice design on the cover; and I also tend to think that the artists deserve to be recompensed for creating the work I am enjoying. Yes, I am aware of all the arguments surrounding artificially increased prices and nasty working practices by the mega-corp music producer companies, and I have more than my fair share of knackered old pirated tapes from my youth, but nowadays my music consumption has decidedly slowed (due in part to a lack of opportunity to listen to the music I want to – we’re more likely to have “Little Peter Rabbit Had A Fly Upon His Nose” on these days than anything a normal person might actually want to listen to 20 times a day…)
Anyway, I finally decided to see what all the fuss was about and downloaded a .torrent program and did a little surfing – and Jeebus is there a lot of ‘free’ music out there! I’ve also discovered that it is the perfect way to recapture my lost youth and own again a lot of albums that have been lost among several house moves and changes in taste.
Of course, first on the bill had to be the ultimate in music-sharing naysayers:
Now all I need is an iPod… ;)
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- Matthew Pennell
- 1176 days ago
- I doubt it – we barely have enough spare time to watch shows that are on normal TV, let alone extra ones we’ve downloaded!
At least with music I have a few hours a week in the car to further damage my hearing… ;) - #2
- Andy Saxton
- 1176 days ago
- I know what you mean, listening to the Disney CD every time the little person needs to go to sleep is a pain.
Suddenly you want to hurt the little creatures you held so dear in your own childhood…
Master of Puppets is a great album. Probably the best Metallica album actually. - #3
- Kate Bolin
- 1176 days ago
- I think my husband thanks God every day that there is no easily installed .torrent program for OS9, because I’d probably be a menace.
- #4
- Neil Ford
- 1175 days ago
- My wife had a thing about Placebo a few years back. She decided to hoover up all the hard to find b-sides etc from all over the internet.
The pc was totally minging with trojans and diallers after a while.
Never tried the old file sharing either, always a bit scared I’d get sued. - #5
- Matthew Pennell
- 1174 days ago
- Ooh, Placebo – there’s another one for my list!
- #6
Using Torrents for TV Shows is awesome.