SXSW 2012 on BitTorrent: 7.51 GB of Free Music

Ernesto
March 11, 2012
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sxsw logo The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the largest and most popular in the United States.

Since 2005, the festival has published thousands of free tracks from participating artists.

For some of the previous editions, the festival organizers offered torrents of the artist showcases themselves, but since 2008 this task has been handed over to the public.

All of the MP3s are still freely available for download on the festival’s site, so it only takes one person to get a torrent up and running.

For the past four years Ben Stolt has taken the time and effort to put all the MP3s on BitTorrent, and this year two torrents containing 1.219 tracks have been released.

7.51 gigabytes of free music in total.

Every year the SXSW torrents are a great success, with many thousands of music aficionados downloading the gigabytes of free music from both established acts and upcoming bands in virtually every music genre.

In total, the torrents of the previous editions have been downloaded close to 200,000 times.

This year’s SXSW music festival takes place from March 13-18 in Austin Texas. All the tracks released for the previous editions are also still available for those people who want to fill up their mp3-players without having to invest thousands of dollars.

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Torrents for the win
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I feel your pain RIAA roflmao
Mwhahaha

Interesting how you went with 1.219 and also 200,000 there.

Anywho, a great use of BT helping upcoming artists to find fame with no distribution costs!
- Anonymous
  
  For the past four years Ben Stolt has taken the time and effort to put all the MP3s on BitTorrent, and this year two torrents containing 1.219 tracks have been released.
  
  In total, the torrents of the previous editions have been downloaded close to 200,000 times.
  
  Mwhahaha, Time to reread methinks……… It all makes sense when you open your eyes.
  1219 tracks in 2 torrents have been downloaded close to 200,000 times. Get it?
  - Mike
    
    It’s amusing how a person with a user name implying Occam’s Razor is complicating a non-issue by ignoring the most obvious conclusion.
    Mwhahaha was pointing out that Ernesto used the European format in typing “1.219″, and the American format to type “200,000″.
    Perhaps it’s a typo. THAT would be the derivative of Occam’s Razor.
    - Anonymous
      
      It’s OccamsKatana, ie: keep it simple by cutting the damn head off. LOL! Kind of an oxymoron. Even if I’m wrong, I’m right. ROFL!!! get it?? Might makes right??
      
      Ok, I generally abide by the Occams Razor prinicple. But I’m also a high level martial artist, and love the Katana. So put the dualist nature of the two together to form OccamsKatana. Kinda overkill…… When the simplist answer doesn’t fit…. kill it. hehe.
      
      and for the record, I wasn’t talking about his use of period and comma. moot point. I was picking on Mwhahaha, as usual. LOL!
http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

This is clearly a lesson to RIAA – who must be astonished that people will goto the personal effort and expense of not only making these torrents for ZERO cash and ZERO profit, but folks will actually d/l mp3′s that are more than a pathetic 3 to 5MB lol.

But does the RIAA hear us, let alone listen to us? No. And that’s why you’re going to die you defunct dinosaurs. Bye Bye.
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Chris

is this legal? I’m using my university’s internet access and if i download anything that’s not legal I will get my privilege banned.
- fffff
  
  >2012
  >banning people from the internet
  only in soviet murrika
  - Chris
    
    so university of California is fine right?
- Anonymous
  
  The correct question would be – am I in the right university?
- Spkgta
  
  Hey Chris,
  
  Seems to me that you might as well just drop out now. If your reading comprehension and general thought process are so stunted that you can’t read the attached article and come away with “These downloads are free AND legit!” then I suspect that higher education isn’t really for you.
  
  Unless of course you’re just there to find a rich wife….
  - http://www.facebook.com/ValhallaLegend Andrew Lee
    
    O_o He probably did not read it all. Your judgement based on the little information available is pure ignorance. Cutting him down for trying to make a better life for himself and or his family is plain sad. You should learn to show some respect for people because with an attitude like that I doubt you will make it very far in life. Nobody wants to be around so negative.. If I had to deal with you around me I would probably bust you in that sewer hole you call your mouth.
- http://www.facebook.com/ValhallaLegend Andrew Lee
  
  Ignore that moron troll :/
  - Chad Spratt
    
    lighten up, it’s funny and I doubt Chris took it personally. If I had to deal with you around me, I’d look for a different job since there’s no other reason I’d hang around someone with so little sense of humor.
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Anonymous

Nice! 7 gigs of free music sounds pretty good to me man.
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- Anonymous
  
  I checked the link, looks interesting. Have you used the service?
  - Guest
    
    Don’t trust a VPN service that doesn’t accept Bitcoins.
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Anon

Have downloaded the lot of these 38GB will be seeding for a long long time. You really should download and seed these there’s some fantastic music in this collection.
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http://www.facebook.com/ValhallaLegend Andrew Lee

Shit some of this music is really good! I was reluctant at first to download it but damn some of these artist are really really good! Even some with a classic rock sound that’s true to the era. Fucking impressive! Well at least I can go back to listening to music without my money supporting them Nazis!!
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Downloading and super seeding. :)
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WOW! Let’s all seed!

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