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janc
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Sep 22 13:43 UTC 2002 |
Interesting. A while ago we thought Grex was the subject of a distributed
denial of service attack, because we were being hit by a mssive flood of
requests from many different hosts. Closer examination showed that someone
had put an edonkey directory on Grex. Lucky the Ductch police didn't
confiscate Grex.
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jmsaul
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response 101 of 104:
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Sep 22 14:45 UTC 2002 |
Maybe that's what clees is coming over to do.
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dbratman
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response 102 of 104:
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Sep 25 16:59 UTC 2002 |
resp:88 David Brodbeck writes, "Have you ever tried Gnutella? It's
incredibly inefficient."
More inefficient than going down to the record store and buying an
album? (Or online, if you don't have a record store.)
Reports of inefficiency, mess, time-consuming*, and complexity, as well
as my semi-non-techie uncertainty of how I'd get the files to play when
I'd downloaded them has scared me off file-sharing far more efficiently
than any threats from the music industry.
* generally speaking, I find that N minutes spent waiting for my
computer to do something is about as tedious as 5N minutes spent
waiting for anything else in my life I might have to wait for.
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gull
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response 103 of 104:
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Sep 25 17:42 UTC 2002 |
I meant inefficient in the sense that it takes up a large amount of network
bandwidth, even just for things like search traffic that are only
peripherally related to downloading files. I would tend to agree that
getting an album from a file sharing service, burning it to CD, downloading
the cover art and printing it out, etc. is much more time consuming then just
getting Amazon.com to deliver the darn thing to you, though.
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mcnally
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Sep 26 21:03 UTC 2002 |
A couple of days ago NPR re-broadcast an earlier interview with
Jon Langford, founding member of the long-running British band
the Mekons as well as participant in countless other side-projects.
The interview will primarily be interesting to those who are either
Mekons or alt-country fans but there are a few segments of general
interest, including a bit about 16 minutes into the interview
where he discusses the dificulty of being a modest-selling band
with a major label recording contract.
In the late 80s the Mekons recorded two of their best albums,
"Rock 'n' Roll" and "The Curse of the Mekons" for the major label
A & M but disappointing sales (by A & M's standards) led to
the label's decision not to release in the USA and almost led to
the break-up of the band. Langford talks about this peripherally,
mentioning how the band started at A & M with a theory that an
inexpensively-recorded album with modest sales could still make
money for the label but that after the person they'd signed with
departed, label employees without a relationship with the band
questioned the wisdom of bothering with a band whose sales were
likely to be measured in the tens of thousands and not in millions.
Ever since the A & M debacle the Mekons have recorded for small
indies, though Langford says in the interview that that's no
guarantee of being treated decently, either.
The interview winds down with a few interesting bits about playing
the British punk scene in the late 70s, which may also be interesting
even to people without an interest in the band.
To find the piece, go to www.npr.org and search for "Mekons",
the Langford interview is the most recent item that pops up.
Real-audio player required to listen to the streaming audio.
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