It all comes down to convenience.
I wanted one song. Just one song. God is a Girl by Groove Coverage. I wanted the MP3, or the WMA. Nothing else. Not the whole album, not a pack of remixes, not every fricking dance song released in 2002. When I started doing torrent searches, the last few things are all I found. Oh, the song was in plenty of places, it was just packed amidst download packs of 500 songs I already had.
Finally, I said **** it, and went to iTunes. I was more than willing to pay $1.39 or whatever it would cost me just to get this one song.
"Your request could not be completed. This item is currently not available in the US store."
Goodness, it's like the RIAA - or the international or German equivalent - wants me to steal their products.
This is to the music industry: If you want me to buy your products, release products I want to buy in a way I can buy them.
Well, back to finding space on my hard drive for "500 Best Dance Tunez Mega pack!"
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"500 Best Dance Tunez Mega pack!"
How many of them are MJs?
Not sure what client you're using, but a lot of them now let you selectively download files from torrents. If yours doesn't I believe that utorrent (mu-torrent) and Azureus/Vuze both do allow for that option. Feel free to PM me if you have questions about it.
I use Azureus but I didn't know it could do that. Lemme investigate this further. Thanks for the tip!
It's actually very easy to pick the files you want to download using µtorrent. When the download window pops up you can just click on the check boxes of the files you want.
I use Azureus but I didn't know it could do that.
So, to sum up, the music industry can still make money if simple fucks can't riddle out how to check off a box in an interface because they don't read.
I'm pretty sure the music industry was already counting on the general ignorance and blind drive to consume mindless **** on the part of the listener.
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I tried using µtorrent, but the friction made my computer overheat.
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I want to say something stupid so Smasharoo will insult me, but I can't think of anything. Maybe that's worth an insult in itself, who knows?
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.
I want to say something stupid so Smasharoo will insult me, but I can't think of anything. Maybe that's worth an insult in itself, who knows?
Turin, Eater of Souls wrote:
It's actually very easy to pick the files you want to download using µtorrent. When the download window pops up you can just click on the check boxes of the files you want.
Except when it's a .rar
I hate when that happens.
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