1. Micheal Land - "Rollercoaster of Death (mix)"
A so-so remix of a Monkey Island track. Not off to a good start!

2. Vangelis - "The Little Fete"
Booooring. Insta-skip.

3. Taika - "Shining in the Darkness - Down in the Dungeon Just Creatures and Me"
A remix of music from some game I've never played, from OCRemix.org

4. Ray Lynch - "Ivory"
Too slow for my mood. Skip!

5. Judas Priest - "Leather Rebel [Live]"
Not his best stuff... skip.

6. Captain Dan - "7 Seas"
Captain Dan & the Scurvy Crew perform authentic pirate hip hop.
"Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, bitch!"
Awesome

7. Mazedude - "Super Metroid Norfair Deathmarch"
I love mazedude's tracks, but Norfair is kinda slow. Another from OCRemix.org

8. FFmusicDJ - "Hidden Palace Future"
Sonic 2 remix, gets off to a slow start, but speeds up eventually. OCRemix.org

9. whoever made the music for Sonic 2 - "Hill Top"
Original music from the Hill Top Zone. Yay!

10. Yo-Yo Ma - "Samambaia"
A resounding "meh"


I have a lot of music that I don't like thanks to Napster (the new, legal one). But I'm too lazy to actually sort them out (there are a couple thousand at least), so I end up skipping a lot of tracks.

Good find - fk me dead if that's not the definition of ironic.

Recently Metallica seem to be trying to be making amends and apologising for being such aholes about the whole Napster thing, which is good to see. Now we can get back to criticising their music (and haircuts).

http://www.videosift.com/video/Metallica-Napster-Bad

Ah...before they went really shit and whiny....the napster thing still haunts Lars to this day...

(Oh and you don't have to swear in Battlestar Galacticese, you can say fuck. Fuck fuckety fuck, it's not hurting anyone.)

and that one....Hi-larity.....

The comparison of the inability to make boo-koo $$$ on ice now that refrigeration exists is perfect-Before commercial refrigeration, certain concerns made millions quarrying and supplying ice from natural sources to ship and transport by train. My sentiments in the 90s, when the creator of Napster was embroiled in lawsuits, and bands like Metallica put on their whining shoes to do battle was, that no matter how hard one trys, they simply can't stop the evolution of the paradigm-that paradigm being the control of monetary systems by a few, maniacal, power-mad dynasties. That and the days of the mega-arena sell-out crowds for a single band, are coming to an end. (get off yer lazy asses, Metallica, and do what you did to make a living prior to becoming huge....Tour, you drunk whiners!!!
The Pirate bay is only a small glimpse of how to take back the power from the money-changers-Do you hear writers whining because people don't read as many books anymore?? Who stole their readership...the Nazi's?????

Evolution in Action, baby-Fuck a lawyer, fuck a record exec, fuck em all-
and BORROW MY NEW CD AVAILABLE ON ANY COMPUTER ANYWHERE!!

Shall we discuss why it is morally righteous to steal ANYTHING one can from Microsoft???? What about major computer manufacturers, who do not ship operating systems disks and drivers, even though you have paid for it, that then want to charge you by the minute for any form of information or tech support, by telephone....?

DMCA is only applicable in the US.

The peer-to-peer distribution networks have undergone a significant evolution with the growth of the Internet. Right now BitTorrent is the preferred way, before there were Napster, E-donkey, DirectConnect and many more. This is just the latest iteration and every time the law is changed, the way to distribute changes. I doubt that it is ever possible to stop the pirate movement, because the people want to do it, and the industry will have to adapt or collapse.

Smugglarn: They could be funded by Hitler himself, that wouldn't change anything. Your way of thinking is the same as the American media, "Are you taking money from that guy? Then you must be totally like him!" It's moronic, narrow-sighted and in your case vicious, since the only reason you have to say it is to spread dissent and anger against the pirate bay. (Oh and you don't have to swear in Battlestar Galacticese, you can say fuck. Fuck fuckety fuck, it's not hurting anyone.)

Redsky: You bring up an interesting point. It's easy to just say "you can put it on iTunes", but for people to know your music they'll have to be exposed to it somehow. Commercials, viral ads and the like are not free or cheap, and "true" word of mouth only works in one in a billion times. But if there is a lesson to learn from youtube and videosift in particular, it is that communities can do wonders in this. Imagine a "Musicsift" where hopeful musicians could try to get their music sifted and thereby spreading their music. It's what musicians use myspace for, but the sift part isn't there.

These giant corporations have been stealing money from us for years. There has been a price fix in on CDs, movies and games for ages, before Napster even came along. Now we are making them pay and they don't like it. Boohoo, I have no sympathy for those bigwigs.

Not to mention most signed (not independent) musicians only make about 1 penny off of every CD sold. They make more money from concerts and T-shirt stands than selling CDs.

Artists - the real artists, not the rehashed Nickelback band you hear on the radio - crave exposure more than money, and I believe if you polled all independent, self-employed artists, they would agree that these copyright laws need to change.

For those with a Napster subscription, they've got ~50 of his songs, including this one.

Jonny, TVlinks is not technologically comparable to Napster. Napster was providing the mechanism through which all the data was being transferred - without Napster in existence, nobody would have been able to share music or other files. TVlinks' case is more akin to a case where Slashdot and a number of other sites were sued for putting up links to a site that had information on a specific type of encryption and how to break it, and Slashdot and the other sites were sued for it in the U.S. as a result. Without those sites, people would still have been able to access the information - this somewhat comparable to TVlinks. But I don't know too much about British laws.

As for torrents, I only use private trackers. I don't trust Piratebay, Demonoid, or the rest anymore.

Wow, that's messed up. I don't know about UK law, but "facilitation" is definitely a no-no in the U.S. Just ask the original napster folks. Or james and dag about why vids are immediately removed when a copyright holder makes a claim.

But damn, they're charging him criminally?? I'm assuming criminal since he was arrested.

woah. thanks for the awesome list !

qruel

In reply to this comment by meow:
Here you go:
Drama King
Star Wars Kid
Numa Numa
Back Dorm Boys
Napster Bad
Winnebago Guy Mad
Bert is Evil^
Goatse (WIKI, not direct link)
Jib Jab
G.I. Joe
You're The Man Now Dog
Spongemonkies Like the Moon
Superbowl is Gay
Ask a Ninja
Average Homeboy
LonelyGirl^
House of Cosby
Chad Vader
Ze Frank^
Lazy Sunday
Kid from Brooklyn
Bubb Rubb
George Lucas in Love
Kramer
Myspace the Movie
Chuck Norris List^
Geriatric
Kiss You Guy^
Kubrick Audition
Leroy Jenkins
Homestar Runner
Grape Stomp Lady
Paris Hilton (Wiki)
All Your Base
Diet Coke and Mentos
OK Go
Shining Trailer Remix
Sneezing Baby Panda
Dick in a Box
Rocketboom Amanda
Yacht Rock
Sn
akes on a Plane / 2
Angry German Kid
Otters Holding Hands
Daxflame
Bride Cutting Hair
Colbert Disses President
Little Superstar Moves
Lightning Bolt LARPers
Kelly Likes Shoes
Tom Cruise Shocks Oprah
Weird Al - White and Nerdy
K-Fed Popozao
George Washington
Ashlee Simpson
Boom Goes the Dynamite
Lily Tomlin in a Fight
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Christmas Lights
Shatner Sings Rocketman
Evolution of Dance
Chocolate Rain
Zombie Kid Likes Turtles

Appendix (not referenced in video):
Will it Blend^
Badger Badger Badger
Kenya
Gonads and Strife
Hamster Dance
And anything from Albino Blacksheep's popular flash videos.

Here you go:
Drama King
Star Wars Kid
Numa Numa
Back Dorm Boys
Napster Bad
Winnebago Guy Mad
Bert is Evil^
Goatse (WIKI, not direct link)
Jib Jab
G.I. Joe
You're The Man Now Dog
Spongemonkies Like the Moon
Superbowl is Gay
Ask a Ninja
Average Homeboy
LonelyGirl^
House of Cosby
Chad Vader
Ze Frank^
Lazy Sunday
Kid from Brooklyn
Bubb Rubb
George Lucas in Love
Kramer
Myspace the Movie
Chuck Norris List^
Geriatric
Kiss You Guy^
Kubrick Audition
Leroy Jenkins
Homestar Runner
Grape Stomp Lady
Paris Hilton (Wiki)
All Your Base
Diet Coke and Mentos
OK Go
Shining Trailer Remix
Sneezing Baby Panda
Dick in a Box
Rocketboom Amanda
Yacht Rock
Sn
akes on a Plane / 2
Angry German Kid
Otters Holding Hands
Daxflame
Bride Cutting Hair
Colbert Disses President
Little Superstar Moves
Lightning Bolt LARPers
Kelly Likes Shoes
Tom Cruise Shocks Oprah
Weird Al - White and Nerdy
K-Fed Popozao
George Washington
Ashlee Simpson
Boom Goes the Dynamite
Lily Tomlin in a Fight
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Christmas Lights
Shatner Sings Rocketman
Evolution of Dance
Chocolate Rain
Zombie Kid Likes Turtles

Appendix (not referenced in video):
Will it Blend^
Badger Badger Badger
Kenya
Gonads and Strife
Hamster Dance
And anything from Albino Blacksheep's popular flash videos.

I know, it was funnier back then when the situation was fresh and Metallica were being dicks and Napster was Gods Gift to free music. It's a classic.

Thanks I fixed that, and I agree, that was why I dug it up, the vintage Napster days, just the way I liked getting my music.

I'm pretty sure that the proper title of this video is Napster Bad, not Napster is Bad