At 03:14 PM 2/8/2003 -0800, you wrote:
quoted 13 lines Oh please, dont be so extreme. Most people don't have the time to sit>Oh please, dont be so extreme. Most people don't have the time to sit
>there looking for every latest and greatest release on soulseek; people
>who spend a lot of time buy a shitload as well, much more then an average
>consumer. I can spend a week every night obsessively downloading
>everything from soulseek for hours, (I go through these phases) and still
>I buy stuff I couldnt find or want more of or is on a certain label i like.
>
>There aren't that many anal fucks who go buy CD's and actually take the
>time to rip them and return them, and we all have a ton of music we have
>purchased with one or no good tracks that lays there in the dust.
>
>Something seems vaguely familiar... hasnt a discussion like this already
>occurred not too long ago? We go in cycles, yes we do. :)
Very much so. Usually whenever Soulseek has an outage and those reliant on
it overreact :) Granted, it started as an IDM-centric network and still
sports quite a bit of chat-based activity, so at least there's a community.
But yeah. I don't buy a lot of music lately, and the music I download
reflects that. Meaning that I hardly ever download anything.
For every person who uses it to pad their collections and feels that
everything should be free, there are likely 2 people who use it for
research and buy a large portion of what they enjoy.
(taht reminds me that i need to buy those prefuse releases!)
derek
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