I Too Downloaded Them

News and what's next

2009-08-13T18:07:00.000-07:00

Okay guys, currently we have more than 500 seeders for the Joel Tenenbaum tracklist. Thanx for all the support, espacially to the ThePirateBay guys who made this a coverstory.

Everybody complaining about the crappy music, I know. Not my favorites either. But who cares, I don't have to listen them, I just downloaded and seeded them.

So we're getting somewhere. It's a start. We're not millions (yet) and we are just seeding a tracklist. We all know: nothing will change because of it if we stop now. Joel was just one guy who made his situation public. But there will be many more. The RIAA and the other similar groups won't stop anytime soon. So we have to be prepared to continue.

We can't change the world by one campaign, but we can make it clear: from now on whenever anybody on this planet get sued for downloading and sharing any kind of art, we too will download and share it too. We will make it clear: by suing individuals for downloading stuff, they will just share it with everybody.

But to do so, we can't start always from scratch. We need some ways we can share the information.

So first, there's a Facebook Group. (Made a dummy guy to create it and stole Joels firstname, sorry.)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=148444247288

Yepp, that's not anonymous. If you don't care, you should join, otherwise keep reading.

There's twitter. Still not fully anonymous, but at least you're not there with your full name.

http://twitter.com/downloadedthem

And of course there's a blog (You are here):

http://itoodownloadedthem.blogspot.com/

The last two have an RSS so you can subscribe:

feed://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/65524469.rss

feed://itoodownloadedthem.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

And nop, I'm not the RIAA and this is not a trick to get to you. You choose your way to be in touch.

Download the torrent

2009-08-07T15:54:00.000-07:00

You can download the torrent here:

http://www.mininova.org/tor/2830847

The torrent contains all the 30 track Joel Tenenbaum was sued for:

01 - Incubus - New Skin

02 - Green Day - Minority

03 - Outkast - Wheelz of Steel

04 - Incubus - Pardon Me

05 - Nirvana - Come As You Are

06 - Green Day - When I Come Around

07 - Green Day - Nice Guys Finish Last

08 - Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box

09 - Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug

10 - Blink 182 - Adam's Song

11 - Limp Bizkit - Rearranged

12 - Limp Bizkit - Leech

13 - Linkin Park - Crawling Hybrid

14 - Deftones - Be Quiet And Drive

15 - The Fugees - Killing Me Softly

16 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

17 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way

18 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - My Friends

19 - Beck - Loser

20 - Eminem - My Name Is

21 - Eminem - Drug Ballad

22 - Eminem - Cleaning Out My Closet

23 - Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)

24 - The Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away

25 - Monster Magnet - Look To Your Orb For The Warning

26 - Aerosmith - Pink

27 - OutKast - Rosa Parks

28 - Rage Against The Machine - Guerrilla Radio

29 - Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

30 - Aerosmith - Water Song/Janie's Got A Gun

And please seed the downloaded songs. Without seeding the whole campaign is pointless, ain't it?

If you don't know what a torrent file is and what to do with it, you should visit this.

Why?

2009-08-07T14:46:00.000-07:00

After 6 years of struggle, on 2nd of August the court ordered Joel Tenenbaum to pay $675.000 to the RIAA. The reason behind it that he downloaded and shared 30 tracks and with this action he caused that much harm.

I'm not Joel. I've never seen him. I don't even live in the same country and I barely speak his language. But I had enough.

Many countries have their own "RIAA". Many people across the globe are being threatened just because they downloaded and shared their favorite songs or movies. It is said that they cause a tremendous harm to the music and movie industries and therefore to the artists. But the truth is that they don't.

The truth is that the entertainment industries are more successful than ever. Every sharing works as an ad to the particular music or movie and they have huge profits. But of course they are greedy and they want more.

The truth is that downloading doesn't hurt the artists. They are bound by the companies and they don't even have the freedom anymore to share their creation freely with anybody. The copyright system that was created to protect them from the powerful, became corrupted and made them the slaves of those tyrants.

The truth is that those who only want to share the joy, the experience and the knowledge with others are being made bankrupt just because their most human intentions are believed to be against the greed of some faceless companies.

I'm not a communist. I do believe that all the artists have the right to be paid. I believe that every other person and group who helped the artists to create it have the right to be paid. But I don't believe in tyranny, I don't believe that sharing would be a capitol crime, I don't believe it's acceptable to ruin the life of any folks because of it, so: I don't believe in copyright anymore.

That's why I finally decided to make a move. I wanted to let the RIAA know that I too downloaded those songs. I wanted to let them know: they cannot fight the sharing with violence. We will download. We will share. If we like something, we willingly pay for it if there is a way to support the artists and their staff with it. But we won't be scared. We won't let them ruin our life slowly, one by one. If they want to change it, they have to talk, they have to think, they have to come out with better ideas. But no matter how strong they are, how much they want to hunt us down, we won't stop downloading and we won't stop sharing.

So help us, help yourself with downloading and seeding the songs Joel downloaded and shared. Show that from now on, every time somebody is attacked because of sharing something, we will share it too. Let them know that all they can achieve is more and more people sharing.

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2009-08-07T13:06:00.000-07:00

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