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Originally Posted by sodascouts
This is all an interesting debate, and I can see both sides. I think we must remember the difference between someone who posts downloads and someone who trades - they are completely separate entities with seperate audiences who put the material to different purposes. David is not encouraging anyone to trade lower quality materials.
Yes, it was questionable behavior to go against the expressed wishes of the sharer. However, as I downloaded the "Who's the New Girl" show off of EZtree today, I noticed that user also posted that he did not want the show converted to MP3. That show has been circulating for years in MP3 format - so what's going on here? Shall we police sites who post that show from now on and try to figure out if they have used the bittorrent as the source and, if so, should we lambaste them for going against the sharer's wishes? It starts getting ridiculous.
If I were David, I would lay off posting bittorrent tracks that request the downloader not to post them as MP3, just to be considerate to the sharer. However, I can't universally condemn him when he's not trying to pass the songs off as higher quality material, just allowing people who don't care about such things access to the show.
If all you're worried about is the quality of shows, make sure you trade with people who meet those standards. Leave the MP3 downloaders alone. JMHO.
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All good points, Nancy. I agree about the older shows already circulating as mp3s. Who cares? Sioux City was different. It had only been shared as a cd from uncompressed audio. The torrent trader's wishes were not only ignored by David, he also said in his posts that he doesn't care about anything the torrent traders request regarding shows they share. I think that's insulting and I don't blame anyone for not sharing if people want to put up every show they can get their hands on for download at mp3 websites.
I don't think mp3 is a bad format for my personal use. The torrent traders and people who buy expensive equipment to tape shows don't like it. They won't share as many new shows if they see everything going straight to mp3 websites. We're lucky to have a few people on this board who know enough about torrents to seed shows for us. We don't always have to depend on purists at the torrent sites to get out new shows. The failure to honor the no mp3 requests just makes it harder to get more good stuff from the tapers who won't want to share if they know shows will be going straight to mp3 downloads as soon as they're shared on the torrents.
