Why pirating music is old school
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this is what I see when I search for an album: http://d.pr/OFXu
you get pretty much any format/bitrate of any song/album you can imagine, most are almost always well seeded.
They have an irc channel for applications; take a look at http://whatinterviewprep.webs.com/ .
"scene releases" have a fixed quality scheme (encoding, ID3, ...) and the proper torrent community orftp/usenet server will max out your home connection easily.
That being said, if you actually have a regular income, music should not be that big of a problem to buy...
2. type demonoid hit tab, type the band name followed by discography
3. hit download button.
everything else happens automatically. torrent file gets automatically added to Transmission, and when done, the music gets moved into the "Automatically add files to iTunes Folder" and iTunes takes it from there.
But don't steal music. Its wrong.
Why can't people just admit that they pirate because they just want free stuff?
I do. Because the people pirating music have pretty much destroyed the music industry. The same is happening to any industry that can be digitized.
He didn't win (earn) any money. Unless he cancelled a billable hour with a customer, he didn't save any money either. He saved time.
Put it this way: he could waste the time fiddling with audio files, or he could be having sex. Which is a better use of time?
And even for young people: the time you spend cleaning up downloads are time you can't spend on getting better at whatever you're good at.
* never cook for yourself, always eat out * never wash your own car * never cut your own grass
ad infinitum
If you make a sufficient salary this can be extended to everything you do and you might reach the conclusion that it's best if you do nothing besides working and sleeping. Then you realize how ridiculous the whole argument is.
working, playing, and sleeping. Fiddling with audio files, washing your car, cutting grass... these are not playing, sleeping, or profitable working.
If I had the money, you can bet I would pay for people or tools to take care of pointless, Sisyphean daily chores.
Also 2 hours is way overblown.
$0.99 for a pristine 256kbps AAC track, with no waiting, is a good deal. The iTunes Store isn't a money-making behemoth for no reason.
Then you are told by iTunes: "The item you've requested is not currently available in the Swedish store"
I don't use iTunes and thus can't compare their respective librairies, but I know first hand that even in more remote corners of the musical world (think obscure recording of a jazz reprise of Bach), Spotify almost always delivers.
A 'seasoned P2Per' already belongs to one or more invitation-only torrent sites where nearly everything you could ever want is available and well-seeded in multiple formats, including FLAC. (One's already been mentioned on this thread, but there are others.)
If I were the type of person to steal music, I would log into one of these communities, do a quick search on a pretty decent search engine, throw the .torrent into a Dropbox folder synced with my media server. The media server then would automatically do the downloading / adding to my music library / etc. I hear this is often faster than downloading from iTunes, and completely ad-free. Even better, it doesn't involve iTunes.
$0.99 is a hell of a deal if you've never pirated music and don't know where to start, but when faced with paying vs. a bit of hassle, the core P2P community has again and again decided to forego paying and focus their efforts on eliminating the hassle.
This is only true if you're into pop music from "the big five" labels, or at best looking for some generic "Ibiza X-treme Tribal Goa Trance Collection #392". Now, I know that arguing about taste is pointless, but I still feel like saying this: if you try to get your hands on something remotely sophisticated and with musical substance, you will have a hard time finding it via the scene releases; your best shot is to find it among like-minded people with an artistic mind, and you probably know that comes down to only about three places on the net: Karagarga, Cinema Obscura, and ~drumroll~ The Pirate Bay (the cultural cauldron of the Internet).
I'm actually a "scener" (both demo scene and "xvid scene"), and I frequent my share of private trackers, so I got an up-close relation with the available assortment.
I'm a member of a private tracker that has cassette rips of 80s jpop - you probably won't find that on a general music tracker (much less an online store), but it's relatively common for a Japanese-music site.
if you try to get your hands on something remotely sophisticated and with musical substance, you will have a hard time finding it via the scene releases
I like how you propose that the music the majority of the world finds value in is trash.
Anyways, who said you had to get it from release groups? There are plenty of people who are perfectly able to use EAC on a CD they bought.
I 'pirated' because I don't feel like going to a store, spending hours to find music I liked, buying it, then ripping the CD. Or ordering the CD somewhere and impatiently waiting before it arrives... Not because of the cost savings.
Let's hope this is a lesson for the movies and software industry as well, if you make it easy for people to get your stuff, in the same or better quality than a pirated version (so, no DRM, annoying restrictions, or difficult download process), they will prefer to get it legally from you.