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interviews and performances from: Lydia Lunch, Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), Jim Rose (Jim Rose Sideshow), J.G.Thirlwell (Foetus), Mike Watt (Minutemen), Richard Kern (Filmmaker), Ron Asheton (Stooges),
Torrent of iPod/iPhone [...]

A link roundup. Gettin better.
Record Labels Use Piracy Data to Please Fans
Most people assume that record labels hate filesharing, but it seems that some companies actually use it as a research tool. We found out that Interscope records, and probably other record companies as well, use P2P data to determine which tracks they will release [...]

Awesome Story this week unfolding around Media Defender, an anti-piracy company working with the content cartels to do things like pollute P2P networks with bogus/corrupt files, hack P2P users computers and entrap people into illegal file-sharing. Emails and all sorts of internal goodies have been outed on the Internets. All sorts of interesting tidbits and [...]

A collection of Warhol’s TV series from the ’80s.
Warhol produced and appeared in three cable television series during the eighties. Andy Warhols Fashion was shown on Manhattan Cable, Andy Warhols TV was shown on the the Madison Square Garden Network and Andy Warhols Fifteen Minutes was shown on MTV. Warhol died before the last episode [...]

In NewTeeVee’s rundown of various P2P distribution options for independent producers, Janko Roettgers notes the interesting possibility of hosting torrents via Amazon’s S3 storage webservice.
Some documentation:

Using BitTorrent with S3.
Generating and Publishing torrents using S3.

Art + Torrents = Arttorrents