And if artists start to submit torrents themselves, they can include whatever candies they feel like, to please the fans.

If an artist I like would share their work on p2p, I would gladly hit the Paypal icon on their webpage to ensure they create more great art. Knowing that all the money goes to their own pocket adds a totally new meaning to “purchasing” music.

I see a lot of people mentioning DRM. You do all know that all content from Apple doesn’t contain DRM don’t you?

Actually, that’s not true, as far as I’m aware. A year ago, we published this piece, talking about how Apple REQUIRES DRM on audiobooks. While it’s true that the music has no DRM, it’s not true for ‘all content’ just on iTunes, let alone their apps store (lots of DRM there) or their OS/computers (more DRM there) or their phones (which not only has DRM on it, but this summer prompted the US Copyright office to specifically allow the circumvention of that DRM as a legal act in the tri-annual review of the DMCA, legitimising jail-breaking.

Here’s a list from the EFF of Apple’s DRM. I’ll see about an update on it, but it’s fair to say that your statement is not true at all.

I see a lot of people mentioning DRM. You do all know that all content from Apple doesn’t contain DRM don’t you?

Anyhoo, the way I see it; if people want to download music from Torrent then no problem. If people have the money, a busy lifestyle, and don’t really have the time to sit at their computer downloading music, (then sorting out all of the embedded info and misspelt tracknames) they can simply download it from iTunes (or wherever) whilst on the go, knowing it will come with album art etc.

Sometimes I purchase, sometimes I torrent, it’s nice to have that option.