IndieRiver.net
Y’know, since I started down the BitTorrent-music-bootleg path back in December—for which I thank Mark Smiley—I’ve been wanting to find a reasonably decent tracker solution for [rocksmyfaceoff.net]. Fast forward to the spring a bit, when Bryan grabbed indieriver.net for an indie-support project he was wanting to do. We were shaping that and figuring it out when we started hearing sniffs about the still-nascent Square Peg Alliance, which led to a phone conversation approximating the following:
B: I think we should be in on this Square Peg thing.
G: I agree. Let me go look at domains …
B: [a line of conversation I don't remember]
G: Okay, we now own the .net, .org, and .info.
B: Excellent.
G: Now to get on board.
So we—being myself, Bryan, and Ron [whom I'd met at the AP Christmas show in 2004, never really realizing that he'd become a key part of my musical universe inside of 18 months]—talked it over with the Pegs we all new and, suddenly, we were in. So in, in fact, that the news link on their site points to SquarePegAlliance.net. Cool.
But as we were working all that, it occurred to me: Bryan’s awesome “indieriver” moniker was going nowhere. [And yeah, Ronzilla, I'm thinking just now that "indiemand" is still sitting on the horizon, waiting for a place. ;)] But then I was thinking … rivers have torrents. Hmmmmmm. So I set out on a quest to find something. Then I did. 
So now I have IndieRiver.net up and running, and with less than a week on it, we’ve already hit a dozen shows [mostly thanks to Richard]. Already, I’ve had a couple people tell me that exposure to these artists via bootlegs is making them want to buy more music. And for me … that’s what I’m wanting.
and, to further confirm your success, just listening to that EP torrent I uploaded prompted me to order his latest, which I had failed to get until now.
July 10th, 2006 at 15:30p.s. I really would like some from artists that I haven’t really heard… katy bowser, MPJ, Chris Mason, Jeremy Casella
July 10th, 2006 at 15:33I will have some MPJ up this week, maybe tonight. [I almost had it last night, and then I realized that I'd flubbed up the third track in how I exported it. It was late, and I was tired, so I'll tackle it anew tonight.] I’ve got the Katy next in line behind that.
As for Casella, I’ve been thinking about asking him if he wants us to share the CD of his that never got released [:shakes fist at sucky record labels:]…
July 10th, 2006 at 15:38this is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
July 11th, 2006 at 12:19Yes, yes it is, Dave.
July 11th, 2006 at 12:21One Week In
I’m still kinda shocked that, one week in, I have 153 users on IndieRiver.net. Kinda astounds me.
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July 13th, 2006 at 12:59