Harvey Danger
I just downloaded an album of the Interweb using BitTorrent without paying for it! I’m listening to it now - it’s not too bad.
STOP, before you call the authorities and have me hauled in front of a court of record company executives let me explain. The artists involved Harvey Danger are behind the free release of their album. They have decided to release a high quality, DRM unencumbered, version of their album ‘Little By Little’ on MP3 and Ogg. They have choosen to use BitTorrent as the distribution means, presumable to reduce their bandwidth bills. They do ask if you like the album to either donate on their website or buy the old school physical CD in a music shop (how olde worlde).
Slowly but surely it seems the record industry, or at least the artists, are joining the 21st century. Consumers don’t want DRM and most intelligent people are sick of being told what to like by radio stations and MTV.
Read about why they decided to do this in their own words.