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How Bands Can Tell If They’re “Making It”

How Bands Can Tell If They’re “Making It”

By Ryan Van Etten on 12/15/2010

Go to Pirate Bay and search your band’s name. Zero search results = Basically you don’t exist. Torrent(s) with 50+ seeds = You’re definitely on the right track. Torrent(s) with 500+ seeds = You’re on the road to limousines and vodka. I’m sure by now I’ve already offended someone, but I assure you it’s an oh-so-effective indicator. On Pirate Bay, SE = seeds, LE = leechers, and both are sortable columns […]

Posted in Editorial, Music, Music Flux, News | Tagged bands, BitTorrent, bittorrent lingo, Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, global trends, Inception, Kanye West, list, making it, metrics, most popular albums, Mumford and Sons, music discovery, music industry, P2P, P2P metric, P2P trends, piracy, Pirate Bay, popularity, popxamples, Rihanna, screenshot, seeders vs. leechers, torrent swarm, torrents, trends, virality | 4 Responses

Collaborative Consumption…P2P Cars…Access.

Collaborative Consumption…P2P Cars…Access.

By Ryan Van Etten on 06/28/2010

Rachel Botsman points out four drivers that are causing a fundamental global shift away from 20th century hyper-consumption (ownership) towards 21st century collaborative consumption (access). Sharing is “second nature” to digital natives—and it’s not just about files.

Posted in Infoculture, Transit | Tagged 21C, access vs. ownership, behavior, car sharing, collaboration, collaborative consumption, collaborative lifestyle, community, consumers, consumption, digital natives, digital sharing, ebay, economics, global trends, hyper-consumption, ideas, P2P, product renting, Rachel Botsman, recession, redistribution markets, sharing, swap trading, swaptree, TED, TEDxSydney, transportation, trends, trust, video | 2 Responses

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