SXSW Gives Away 3.35 GB of Free Music via P2P Networks

March 7, 2010 by
Filed under: Announcements & Events, Downloads, File-Sharing Programs, Networks & Services, Movies, MP3, Digital Audio & Games 

The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival, regarded as one of the largest and most popular in the US, has released its latest DRM-free, file sharing-safe collection of songs. Thanks to BitTorrent (and TorrentFreak which first reported the event), the comprehensive song selection has once again been included in a single torrent file, which is now available for download free of charge.

With this latest edition, SXSW music festival continues its much-acclaimed convention of publishing free tracks from participating artists, accounting for the distribution of thousands of quality songs since 2005. On multiple occasions in recent years, SXSW itself has been involved in encompassing festival song collections into single torrents for simplicity purposes and uploading them online. Since 2008, however, the public was asked to contribute in fulfilling this task.

Although the song list is quite extensive, setting up the torrent and uploading it online can be handled by one person alone, as all of the MP3 files are all gathered on SXSW’s website. While in 2008 this assignment was completed entirely by Greg Hewgill, Ben Stolt volunteered to do the same for the following song editions, in 2009 and 2010, respectively. So far, torrents created through the courtesy of SXSW have registered a huge success among online file sharers, accounting for more than 100,000 downloads.

The great thing about the tracks is that the artists themselves have approved them for distribution, which means that they can be downloaded without the risk of raising suspicions from the RIAA. This year’s first release comprises 646 tracks totaling 3.35 GB, but SXSW have promised to top that by making an additional 200 tracks available in the near future.

The torrent includes quality festival performances from all kinds of artists in a wide scope of music genres. If you are a music enthusiast looking for a free fix, then you should definitely give it a try.

This year’s highly anticipated SXSW music festival is scheduled to take place between March 17-21 in Austin Texas, so plan ahead and make sure you don’t miss it!

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