Comments on: “Share Links” – P2P Revolution or Small Metamorphic P2P Evolution? http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9779/share_links__p2p_revolution_or_small_metamorphic_p2p_evolution/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:40:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: du2vye http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9779/share_links__p2p_revolution_or_small_metamorphic_p2p_evolution/#comment-179055 du2vye Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 #comment-179055 Try calling them mp3 blogs. They've been going on much longer than this says. At the time I discovered them Usenet was popular so they pre-date P2P. They started with the awareness that major labels has no intention of digitalizing most of their back catalogs. Bloggers hooked up turntables and started ripping vinyls. Several were ex-label employees that began buying up copyrights before anyone was interested and opened up their own label. The focus was on out of print material bootlegs and it's grown into indies. Most blogs know the wisdom of staying away from RIAA-bait. Others post FLAC or OGG only (only mp3's are targeted for some reason). There are several large aggregator sites that post updates and try to categorize them. One site reported 5000-6000 blogs with active li<x>nks that are updated recently. Most know how to hide li<x>nks so they don't show up in google for obvious reasons. Good old dead.net (Grateful Dead) was an early pla<x>yer. Others still around are Lost in Tyme and Xtrabay. Try calling them mp3 blogs. They’ve been going on much longer than this says. At the time I discovered them Usenet was popular so they pre-date P2P. They started with the awareness that major labels has no intention of digitalizing most of their back catalogs. Bloggers hooked up turntables and started ripping vinyls. Several were ex-label employees that began buying up copyrights before anyone was interested and opened up their own label. The focus was on out of print material bootlegs and it’s grown into indies. Most blogs know the wisdom of staying away from RIAA-bait. Others post FLAC or OGG only (only mp3’s are targeted for some reason).

There are several large aggregator sites that post updates and try to categorize them. One site reported 5000-6000 blogs with active links that are updated recently. Most know how to hide links so they don’t show up in google for obvious reasons. Good old dead.net (Grateful Dead) was an early player. Others still around are Lost in Tyme and Xtrabay.

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