There is also one new legal torrent

a stranger — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:58:34 -0500

There is also one new legal torrent site - at http://www.datagalaxy.tk

Very good and growing nicely

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mrG — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:55:05 -0500

Via Lessig via Hebig and lastly via LegalTorrents where you can find 5 GB of electronica albums in MP3 set and ready for BitTorrent downloads. While I really do applaud the sentiment, it's unfortunate that these musicians still fall into the trap of the CD; do I really want to download 300 MB of bleepy game music before I can find out if I like it? Maybe I just don't understand BitTorrent, but all I have to go on is this one-paragraph review and links to whole-CD collections:

if you like super-bleepy '80s videogame music, you'll like 8BitPeoples, if you like melodic idm/electronic music, you'll like Monotonik and Kikapu, if you like indie and electronic, you'll appreciate Please Do Something, if you like dark ambient and slightly glitchier work, you'll like Enough Records.

I'm a big fan of Cage, Stockhausen and Varese, so 'electronica' maybe means a different thing to me, but I do still find many younger composers acknowledge and build on those earlier works. So I might actually like some of these artists --- only, is it worth the risk? Each download would devour 7% of my monthly bit-cap. I realize they have much deeper intentions and I only want to illustrate a point of the One-Track and not detract from the Legal Torrents; afterall, One-Track is distributionally agnostic, so there's nothing to stop me from drawing One-Track content from the Legal Torrents archives.

But to illustrate that point of revealing content to new listeners, basically, I'm not likely to take the chance on a whole-CD presentation like this unless I already know the artist ... and doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of a free promotional release?

To be heard above the RIAA noise, new music artists need a release engine that draws in listeners. Trouble is, you can't do that if you hit the audience with the massive entry fee of a solid wall of data; an archive like this is great and useful news for the fans who know what they are getting, but it may not be much use toward any goal of increasing the demand-side of the music equation ...

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There is also one new legal torrent

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