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[...] Record Label Sponsors BitTorrent Site isoHunt At a time when BitTorrent sites are increasingly at odds with the music industry and file-sharing continues to flourish despite legal action, new thinking is called for. Instead of joining the conflict with BitTorrent sites, Honor Roll Music has decided to sponsor isoHunt instead, one of the leading torrent search engines. [...]

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Tue, 05 May 2009 11:03:41 +0000

[...] pointed to some in the past, but the latest is a label called Honor Roll Music, which is promoting one of its popular acts by buying ads on isoHunt, the popular BitTorrent site. The ad links to a torrent file so people can easily download the [...]

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Indie labels find gold in bit torrent sites | — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:06:11 +0000

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Tue, 05 May 2009 06:38:17 +0000

By: Superior

Superior — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:17:52 +0000

This is very good.

Now not only Mininova and TPB helps music artists. Isohunt joins those big two :)

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By: Record Label Sponsors Torrent Site « Secret Archives of the Vatican

Record Label Sponsors Torrent Site « Secret Archives of the Vatican — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:09:42 +0000

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By: Salazar

Salazar — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:18:01 +0000

How very true:

“@Khmuprince

Would be a lot better if 99% of the info was not biased (sorry torrentfreak)”

The journalism would be a lot more credible in the style of an unbiased spectator, instead of ranting on like Jon Newton of the former P2PNet.

It;s getting to the stage where you go to ZeroPaid for news and TorrentFreak for opinion nowadays.

It is up to a label how they distribute what is legally considered their property. This is just a cheap publicity stunt to promote themselves

By: True Reason Wins out

True Reason Wins out — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:07:54 +0000

Interesting how industry trolls like Reasoned Mind never have anything to say on stories like this.

By: Soundwave

Soundwave — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:40:56 +0000

# 37

That’s not true at all. Word of mouth is a huge promotional tool:

“What are you listening to, this sounds great”

This is the new ________ album

By: Soundwave

Soundwave — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:38:07 +0000

# 34

CD audio is over 1000kbps

this download is probably not even 320kbps, but it should still sound pretty good.

If you really love an album, you would want a lossless copy, like a CD.

So, in my opinion, bands _should_ share _all_ of their work, including demos and what-have-you at a decent quality, and leave it to the fans to buy what they like.

And make sure it’s available. We can’t buy if it’s not for sale…

By: o_O

o_O — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:36:12 +0000

Awesome o:

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Society and Culture: Record Label Sponsors BitTorrent Site isoHunt — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:22:15 +0000

[...] Roll Music has decided to sponsor isoHunt instead, one of the leading torrent search engines.From:http://torrentfreak.com/record-label-sponsors-bittorrent-site-isohunt-090503/ Posted by Andy B at [...]

By: Gmon

Gmon — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:48:40 +0000

‘Im not pro-RIAA and of course I download music. But I always thought that now would be the best time to re-introduce records and tapes to fight piracy. Go back to analog music and 1970’s prices.’

Absolutely. The last CD I bought was for 25c from a garage sale. Honestly, thats about the value I apply to that media now. 1970′s prices are where its at.

The problem is, the mass-buying market for music aren’t interested in the superior sound quality found with records, which are, unfortunately, more of a hassle to play than CDs. I don’t think enough would sell.

By: mikejgrant

mikejgrant — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:42:38 +0000

Im not pro-RIAA and of course I download music. But I always thought that now would be the best time to re-introduce records and tapes to fight piracy. Go back to analog music and 1970′s prices.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:52:12 +0000

Sure TorrentFreak is biased for file-shares. It’s quite refreshing, really, to see file-sharing from this perspective. If you want pro MAPP/RIAA stuff just got to their site!

By: Mafiya

Mafiya — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:07:30 +0000

I don’t think they need hate the torrent sites, i think if they released a few songs or a demo on torrents. People can see what its like, and then as to what they think is right either download it or go to their favorite music store and buy it.

By: CopyrightMachines.org

CopyrightMachines.org — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:51:18 +0000

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By: Wow

Wow — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:40:27 +0000

OMGosh now that is pretty cool dude!

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By: CopyrightMachines.org

CopyrightMachines.org — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:35:48 +0000

????????????????? ???????? ?? ??????? ?????????? isoHunt…

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Mon, 04 May 2009 08:34:54 +0000

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By: BuggerMeButtocks

BuggerMeButtocks — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:20:14 +0000

‘great news, will download it for support’

You will only support them if you buy it.
Good on them for taking this route, I hope many people buy thier music.

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Reading Shit On The Internet Is Fun! « Neverending Gaming — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:44:09 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:40:10 +0000

great news, will download it for support

By: JTK

JTK — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:54:24 +0000

Fantastic!

I wonder how long it will take for the RIAA to realise that this is the way forward?

By: Gmon

Gmon — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:48:31 +0000

It’s refreshing to see someone try a different approach, however I just can’t see this tactic resulting in any significant rise in sales for the band when the physical version is released. CDs are stocky, they get scratched. It becomes difficult to justify spending money on something that is so readily available for free.

I like someone’s comment further up, where they mentioned the idea for some sort of ‘pay to leech’ service. The only solution to the record labels torrent problems I can see working would require cooperation of all labels, and perhaps film distributors as well. Between them, set up a legit torrent site; offer all films and CDs for download as P2P torrents, as freely as they are now – we can keep them forever, etc – and charge each user a monthly fee to access the service. Perhaps set up different total download limits, depending on how much each user wants to pay – basic or premium membership, say. A share of revenues would go to each record label. That could be a lot of revenue – millions of torrent downloaders all paying $20 a month.

Just imagine – this service could have perfect rips of everything, perfect quality, no fear of persecution for users, no corrupt files, no viruses because all the files come straight from the companies. I know I’d pay for it.

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By: adkjfaid

adkjfaid — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:53:19 +0000

@4 C’mon man, it’s not a question of the RIAA/ realizing it or not, that would be irrelevant. It’s a question of their dire quest to stay relevant by way of being in a middle man position, which is clearly no longer possible. They have no choice in that respect.

By: Morphologic

Morphologic — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:09:43 +0000

Another cool fan-made ANR anime video for “Kill South Beach Dead”…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU9ACLU43MA

By: CasualT

CasualT — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:53:33 +0000

@27
The majority of users will see those banners, lol. Never underestimate the power of Default!

@Bias Debate
Have a look at the wording in TF articles too. A good news article should have very little if any bias, the articles themselves are not supposed to have opinions embedded in them to prevent bias. The true test of TF would be whether it could post an article of an event that would be viewed negatively in respect online piracy if unbiased. What do you think it would look like?

I will say that compared to RIAA etc TF can’t be accused of biased articles, lol.

By: Ad

Ad — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:19:41 +0000

@Aid – the difference is, TF actually looks into the issues. Sure, they are sympathetic to filesharing, but on the other hand, mainstream media only ever regurgitates RIAA/MPAA press releases.

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By: l33t n00b

l33t n00b — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:05:17 +0000

what n00bs still see these silly ads/banners?

By: Jimmy Jones

Jimmy Jones — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:58:43 +0000

I’ve just downloaded it, and so far I’m really enjoying it!

The music is definitely something different, they have some serious talent! I will definitely be buying this, it’s brilliant!

By: basement dweller

basement dweller — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:31:13 +0000

Cool. This sounds very good! Maybe the big labels will follow suit in a few decades. :)

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:04:58 +0000

Sweet! Much love to isoHunt!

By: demonseth17

demonseth17 — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:02:19 +0000

Nice…those guy realize that it would be better…the same thing was done by Paulo Coelho…I hope things follow that path

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:42:11 +0000

DRM a bigger telephone bill for calling the help center to try to understand why you cannot play your music anymore LoL

By: Morphologic

Morphologic — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:28:42 +0000

Just stumbled upon this fan-made video for ANR’s “Forcefield” (track #7) on Rational Geographic Vol. 1…

Talk about taking down the evil empire!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyLNHSVUWL4

By: Ethernet

Ethernet — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:11:25 +0000

Is torrentfreak biased? Of course it is! We are _for_ artists, not against them, and this article proves it.

Then again, I would like to know what DRM can give me that filesharing can’t… ;)

By: logic voter

logic voter — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:10:21 +0000

very good news indeed, and certainly a step in the right direction.
still dream of a day when the major companies use pay to leech .tor sites as distribution hubs.

By: gtfo my switzerland

gtfo my switzerland — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:00:44 +0000

seeding on 100mbit

By: JimJam

JimJam — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:28:44 +0000

This is fantastic. Go the indie labels!!

In the words of NOFX:

If you think anyone will feel badly,
You are sadly, mistaken.
Time has come for evolution,
Fuck collusion, kill the big five.

By: threesadtigers

threesadtigers — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:23:00 +0000

Awesome solution!

By: Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:21:22 +0000

@5: If it takes having two polarised biased sites to get the full picture, rather than being able to find a reasonably impartial site to see it, then I’ll deal with the two biased sites.

Given the MPAA/RIAA supporting major news outlets, TorrentFreak is no more biased, just from the other side.