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2922700, how far are we from corporations finally taming the internet?
Posted by Voletta Wallace, Sat Mar-07-15 02:39 PM
you might recall some 5 years ago i suggested that there was going to be scads of "lost" music from the 00's.
mixtapes, singles, etc.
due to lack of hard copy + lack of interest to retain any of it once time cooled off the buzz it had when it was new.
my prediction was all that would be left of a lot of music online was a dead zshare link.
in the early 10's the american entertainment industry successfully killed most if not all file locker sites which had allowed for ease of access sharing of generally every album ever made.
the internet is riddled with abandoned blogs housing dead links from 2008/2009/2010.
most of these albums are not able to be found any where else.
p2p? forget it.
totally unreliable for a ton of music being freely shared.
torrent? same as p2p. dead torrents galore with added risk of getting a $10K fine or something.
and streaming online? foh.
new stuff: sure you can grab it when it drops - but archives?
even archives of stuff a few years old? nope.
and when we start talking about more off-brand stuff from the 00's/90's or earlier?
unless you know somebody with a huge 0day FTP/archive and got a password -- people aren't sharing for free like that any more.
in another 5-10 years, how we remember the internet of the late 90s to the early 10's will be no more.
...it already is now actually.
the full taming of the wild west.
already starting to look like bodie, california.
i wish i had saved more to HD.
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2922708, this has nothing to do with corporations
Posted by atruhead, Sat Mar-07-15 04:18 PM
this has everything to do with indie acts who couldn't afford CD pressings having digital links without the foresight to know these sites would be shut down one day. also indie labels with limited CD distribution that folded
I can still find almost any popular act's albums from back in the day, because of the greater demand for this work
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2922725, Or Nah.
Posted by Madvillain 626, Sat Mar-07-15 09:23 PM
There are still file sites that I've used in the last month such as Zippyshare, Mega, and Mediafire (not as dope as it was years ago but you can share a link quickly with it)
Sites like thepiratebay are sketchy (though I've never caught a cease and desist) but private tracker sites (especially those for movies) are flourishing.
i can still find any music i need on soulseek. yeah it's old, but if it aint broke...
Dropbox is the shit too. I post on another board that has a shared 1TB dropbox for all types of...nah, lemme chill.
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