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The Pirate Bay Launches Last.fm Powered Music Section

torrentfreak.com — The Pirate Bay just launched their new music section where artists are categorized utilizing tagging data from the popular music community, last.fm. Together with the previously released music discovery feature, it makes it easier than ever to

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  • ghindo, on 12/10/2007, -2/+43The Pirate Bay just keeps getting better and better.
    • sporg, on 12/10/2007, -5/+1Take what you can give nothing back........wait isnt seeding giving something back?
  • tnatharik, on 12/10/2007, -2/+50it makes it easier than ever to ...
    • seanthebond, on 12/10/2007, -1/+106Download Linux Distros!
    • bitspace, on 12/10/2007, -1/+48Listen to legal and sanctioned samples of music so you can run right out and purchase it on high-tech compact disc!
    • goyney, on 12/10/2007, -1/+1build your own spaceship!
  • YuriSakazaki, on 12/10/2007, -15/+8It's a cool feature, but I'm still not a fan of TPB's site because it just doesn't ever have much content. Not to mention they seem to jump on any torrent site who dies to take it over and increase their userbase...
    • fef560, on 12/10/2007, -0/+4I don't think they take over dead torrent sites to increase their userbase. Publicity? Yeah, but I don't think TPB owners have any illusions of getting private tracker users onto their public one.
    • Chaoticfist, on 12/10/2007, -0/+3They have a lot of content. You just need to know what you are looking for. Also the main unloaders usually put up a wide variety of things.
  • AshamedAmerican, on 12/10/2007, -1/+43I hope nothing ever stops these guys.
    • shaherazad, on 12/10/2007, -11/+1You mean like the police have?

      twice?
      • haveacigar, on 12/10/2007, -0/+7Yeah... that must be why you cant access the site anymore....
  • theblueprint, on 12/10/2007, -0/+29I love last.fm, it's helped me find at least four artists I would have never otherwise checked out.
    • Buckiller, on 12/10/2007, -5/+5check out pandora.com as well.
    • kinggimped, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2Agreed. last.fm has introduced me to many new artists, in particular Steely Dan and Michael Hedges... I would probably never have actively got into them if it wasn't for the awesomeness of last.fm. Music socialists unite!
  • JFistheBusiness, on 12/10/2007, -17/+20Looking forward to browsing the Last.fm-classified "Emo" section.

    And by that, I mean everything on the site.
    • aaronm67, on 12/10/2007, -0/+3For an even more useless tag, try "seen live". Has pretty much any artist that has played a concert in the last 40 years.
    • billygotee, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2At first I thought that was "Eno," as in Brian Eno. Gah-heeuk!
    • aDJsavedmylife, on 12/10/2007, -0/+150 Cent tag's:
      Hip-Hop', 'Emo', 'Stopped making music ..oh wait'
  • shredomatic, on 12/10/2007, -0/+27I bet CBS is just thrilled.
  • chromie, on 12/10/2007, -3/+7Great! Now they just need music...
  • Fourbin, on 12/10/2007, -0/+6Is anyone else really excited that TPB is slowly evolving into the first ever social networking Bit Torrent site? Yes I know tons of sites are forums, etc. but they can really integrate some new, exciting features here.
  • MattCairns, on 12/10/2007, -2/+4Cool feature but its not the best site for torrents.
    • Adam420, on 12/10/2007, -1/+7horrible site...too bad demonoids gone :(
      still havnt found a good replacement...
      • virtualball, on 12/10/2007, -1/+5I miss Demonoid... Without it, I have a hard time trusting sites :(
        • moush, on 12/10/2007, -0/+3mininova is good if what you're looking for is reasonably common
  • mr5150, on 12/10/2007, -2/+5Anyone think the RIAA will be popping champaigne corks? /sarcasm
  • dsmx, on 12/10/2007, -4/+6 Am I missing something or is the pirate bay doing the job of a record company with the exception of paying the artist? All the pirate bay has to do is give a cut of the advertising money to artists on there site and they could compete with record companies and win.
    • jkirk7msa, on 12/10/2007, -0/+8Meh, splitting thousands of dollars by thousands of people won't work out too well.
    • sloppychris, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2There's also the minor costs of actually producing the music.
  • Tooley7, on 12/10/2007, -1/+32This is great, but I still miss Demonoid.
  • Makaveli604, on 12/10/2007, -7/+5Too bad TPB is a terrible (music) tracker.
  • sparced, on 12/10/2007, -5/+2Theres no Italo Disco section, useless to me.
  • xpose, on 12/10/2007, -6/+5Take it easy, its just a last.fm API that any airhead can use on their site. While its nice, its nothing groundbreaking. Sheesh.
  • angers, on 12/10/2007, -1/+4i wish you could combine a few tags to get a more accurate search result...
  • saturninus, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2Not bad...
  • Yclif, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2this is awsome. my two favourites come together.
  • striker1211, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2I wish i could actually use torrents... its like there is a websherrif rep attached to my modem. Damn DMCA notices...
    • sporg, on 12/10/2007, -1/+1Are you being serious?
    • Sefus, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1Use uTorrent, turn on encryption, Forward a port and use use use the pirate bay!
  • blackdude, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1They're just beating around the bush about making the "SEARCH" better.
  • sdenike, on 12/10/2007, -3/+2This was posted a while ago via torrentfreak
    • apache2, on 12/10/2007, -0/+4NO *****? Did you even follow the digg link?
  • realbadass, on 12/10/2007, -2/+3where is my FLAC goodies ?
  • kinggimped, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1Awesome, I love it. But I loved Oink more. Bring back the piggy! :( Seriously though, it's rather nice to have track listings for albums, upcoming gigs, and the like. Bloody marvellous, more sites should adopt this. I love last.fm.

    Although obviously I would only ever use TPB to download music that I have already legitimately purcha........ Pfffffffffffffftttttthahaahahahaaaa, sorry, I just couldn't keep a straight face.
  • c0ldfusi0n, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1Too bad half of the torrents are not what they say they are.
    • Sefus, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1learn who the "real" uploaders are, silly.
      • Makaveli604, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1find a "real" upload site, silly.
  • bobdigi, on 12/10/2007, -1/+2Give me thumbs down all you want, but TPB is garbage. I like the fact that they stand up to anyone, but they cannot compete with good private torrent sites, its just fact. Anyone digging me down just doesnt know any better.
  • clos, on 12/10/2007, -0/+3long live oink...... :(
  • yizuman, on 12/10/2007, -1/+1isn't there like single tracks? I can't find any except full albums

    • Sefus, on 12/11/2007, -0/+2they are torrents. Usually big files so you probably won't find many singles.
  • Sefus, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1GOGOGO Pirate Bay!
  • flvconverter, on 12/13/2007, -0/+0http://www.auditions.com/cs_search_castings_music. ... has many informations on musician jobs.
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