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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby Not true, they just join the same tracker as you and start getting data that you are seeding. As soon as you connect they consider that enough in most cases to persue. Not that they persue everyone. So yea its dangerous, but torrents are still safer from a legal standpoint because its not like your are the only one doing it. Then again, I don't even buy or download music at all much anymore. Most of the stuff I listen to is really hard to get, and if I do buy stuff its usually used because its out of print. Music is friggin cheap now anyways if you buy it digitally.

Beatport has a fucking gay collection in terms of variety - and many time I came across an "error" saying that I cant BUY a tune because I am in the "wrong area code" so to speak. Though I've purchased hundreds of tracks from different websites over my lifetime.

ITunes, Puretracks etc have poor selection, too. No offense. It's only for new music. Often enough I have NO CHOICE but to download for free because I cant find a place to buy it - retailers like Amazon or the actual artist/label. Because I am not going to pay 50 euros for some used CD from some guy in Romania from Ebay or Gemm - thanks, but no thanks! And besides - thats not supporting the artist anyway.

So RIAA should first make music more accessible because hunting after guys like me is dumb, and quite frankly they haven't come up with a solution for me.

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby Not true, they just join the same tracker as you and start getting data that you are seeding. As soon as you connect they consider that enough in most cases to persue. Not that they persue everyone.

Right, but when they join a tracker that's hosted somewhere like ThePirateBay or Demonoid, would they be more concerned about a single user downloading something or 100 users seeding 500 gigs of data? Would they be more interested in shutting down the entire site? The whole tracker? How could they possibly justify prosecuting an entire tracker full of people?

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Originally posted by ziptnf Right, but when they join a tracker that's hosted somewhere like ThePirateBay or Demonoid, would they be more concerned about a single user downloading something or 100 users seeding 500 gigs of data? Would they be more interested in shutting down the entire site? The whole tracker? How could they possibly justify prosecuting an entire tracker full of people?

Like I said, with torrents your not the only one doing it so they more than likely wont go after you personally.

If all it takes now though is a note to your ISP to get you kicked off after three times than its probably much more dangerous.

Magnetonium, I get ya, I stopped listening to most EDM a long time ago though so I guess I dont share the same concerns as you about selection.

I use GEMM a lot, and yea it sucks price wise a lot, but you arent going to find a lot of stuff otherwise if youre looking there because its out of print and the artist isnt getting the money eitherway.

good music isn't being tracked anyway. non-issue.
good artists generally want their music to be accessible

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