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The torrent user experience is poor. You interact with tacky, ad-rich sites to download files that you have to open up in often buggy desktop client software be
by cantlin 14y ago
The torrent user experience is poor. You interact with tacky, ad-rich sites to download files that you have to open up in often buggy desktop client software before receiving a product of highly variable quality.
Contrast this with private trackers, which often offer:
1) Extremely high quality files.
2) Extremely well curated.
Having used Spotify for the last year, I find the experience vastly inferior to when I used private torrent sites. Of course, I get to massage my conscience with the knowledge that I am paying real money. More and more though, I'm sceptical of how much of my money content producers ever see. I'm starting to feel the same distaste for Spotify as I do the traditional media distribution companies. More, I've lost that sense of building my own library of music.
Can it be so hard?
1) Low cost. Low middleman fees.
2) High quality product.
3) Absolute ownership of what I buy.
4) Good UX.
Once this is done, there'll be no need to lobby for breaking the internet.