BitTorrent sued back to the stoneage
I think we are going to stop doing the BitTorrent thing for now until we see how this whole deal with the MPAA suing TorrentSpy for $110 million dollars plays out. Obviously, if the judgement stands up during the appeals process the MPAA is going to go after other BitTorrent trackers like sharks on a feeding frenzy. This will effectively shut them down, and only places like Pirate Bay that are located outside of the US and not subject to their laws will keep their doors open. And for a number of reasons I’m not going to go into here , I don’t like pirate bay and they’ve already been shut down twice. Plus, they’re not free and are facing legal battles too.
But that’s neither here nor there - my main objection isn’t the legality of BitTorrent, per se, but is more of a time issue: why should I spend (waste) time creating BitTorrents and uploading the seed .torrents if that entire house of cards is going to come crumbling down soon anyway?
Besides, with todays broadband speeds it only takes a few seconds to download one of our songs directly from our server anyway, and then our fans aren’t having their IP addresses logged like they would be by going to a torrent tracker.
BTW, our songs are free and it is perfectly legal to download and share our music with anybody you like. I own the copyright to all of The Dave Ryder Band music and give you permission as outlined by our Creative Commons License 
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May 9th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
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