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I liked the interface and catalog that what.cd had, but I think that private trackers are absolutely the wrong way to go. Having an archive is nice, but there's

I liked the interface and catalog that what.cd had, but I think that private trackers are absolutely the wrong way to go. Having an archive is nice, but there's no present danger of losing most of these albums; the real problem is people not having access to them. We should want rare and out-of-print CDs to be reachable by poor, rural Americans, by Moroccan dentists, and by Chinese schoolchildren. Building a walled fortress that only affluent, tech-aware Westerners can access makes me deeply sad.

1337biz 9y ago
There is no incentive for a group to create unique value when the benefit for non-group members is the same as in-group members. Just take a look at how many people contribute to public trackers.
bsder 9y ago
> Having an archive is nice, but there's no present danger of losing most of these albums I was never a what.cd member, but try to find anything from this guys channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/80zforever/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/80zforever/videos That's only 35 years ago. I can't even imagine the level of stuff from earlier that is already gone. (For example, how about all of the bands that were contemporaries of the Beatles before they hit it big?)