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Friday, June 06, 2003
Corny cope with ya
On the iTunes/iTMS front: Derek Sivers, president of CD Baby, an indie-focused online CD retailer, posted some fascinating notes from a meeting Apple hosted with several independent label representatives. It looks like the iTMS’ breadth of selection is about to improve dramatically, with help from the little guys.
If you write about BitTorrent a couple of times, you’ll soon find that over half of your incoming search hits are coming from people trying to find torrent links for various stuff. If you mention popular yet vapid stuff in a joke entry, you’ll get even more hits. Funny, that.
On the positive side, you’ll also see a surprisingly large number of hits coming from people looking for the good stuff, which encourages writing even more about good music. As Sven mentioned in his recent metablogging entry, contributing positive “Google juice” to a deserving site is a small but worthwhile reason for blogging.
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:: Dave Walker 13:42 (EST/EDT) [+] ::
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Holy cow... I get hits for bit torrent searches. It's always for porn and Girls Gone Wild torrents.
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I came in searching for a Quicken torrent :(
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I believe digital distribution services like apple iTunes offer a bright future for independent music, if the major label choke hold can be broken on online distribution. Mp3.com started out as a bastion of independent music but but was eventually swallowed up by Vivendi Universal. For the benefit of independent music I hope the labels never manage to buy out CD Baby.
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I must say that your dead on about the torrent link's it seems that anything you put down on web will bring 5X more searches for torrent links then most other's. This is disappointing to say the least. I pay a lot for bandwidth and well almost 1/2 of is is for torrent related searches and mis placed goggle links. there should be a easy way to keep torrent searches from hitting servers.
Say my love is easy had, Say I'm bitten raw with pride, Say I am too often sad -- Still behold me at your side. Say I'm neither brave nor young, Say I woo and coddle care, Say the devil touched my tongue, Still you have my heart to wear. But say my verses do not scan, And I get me another man! -- Dorothy Parker, "Fighting Words"