I've been feeling the decline of the torrent era for a little bit now. Whereas I used to never receive copyright notices forwarded to me from my ISP, I've gotten three in the last year. I stopped entirely. It's really sad because if you asked us in 2005 what we thought of the internet's future, the consensus was that it would be the last place where you were truly free of government oversight. Not that you still can't find places to be undetected, but it's a sea change from 10 years ago. That comic that's internet famous, comparing the futures envisioned in Brave New World and 1984, comes to mind because we aren't pirates living on the Principality of Sealand, but a lethargic, distracted population that gets its news from facebook.
Wow, the part about information overload is spot on. Definitely something I suffer from. Never seen that comic before.
Yeah. All data was destroyed. Never been a collection of music and music knowledge this large in history, not even close. It's like if some idiot-ridden government had the power to shut down wikipedia. See y'all on whatever's next. I'll be uploading.
I remember a massive scramble for invites and accounts for what and waffles when oink got taken down. There was a lot of distress about losing everything available on oink at the time. Here's to whatever rises up to replace it - hopefully a bit easier on the ratio.
In the past week alone music has lost: Leonard Cohen Mose Allison what.cd Rule of three, I guess.