Georgia Wonder travels by FrostWire
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Scots band Franz Ferdinand is on record as being a supporter of downloading. And yet it may have sicced an online scalp-hunter on its fans.
Or maybe it was its label.
Anyhow, bands who know where it’s at acknowledge the Net as the way to promote their music and get people interested in them, one such being Britain’s Georgia Wonder which has identified free site FrostWire as the perfect vehicle.
Georgia Wonder is described on Metacafe as like, “The Carpenters driving Tom Petty to an R.E.M. gig but getting crushed under the wheels of Pink Floyd’s tour bus while arguing over whether to listen to ‘Love Shack’ by the B52’s or ‘Go your own way’ by Fleetwood Mac”.
Now, “Yesterday we released a free album download by a band named Georgia
Wonder from UK, and they’re very open to sharing their music,” emails the FrostWire team, going on:
“This time around, we put the torrent to be tracked in the Pirate Bay. In only one day, the free ep (called “Hello Stranger”) torrent has made it to the top 100 music torrents of the Pirate Bay.”
And it was still there when we went for a look at 10:35 am Pacific.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4646756/Georgia_Wonder_-_Hello_Stranger_-_Free_EP_-_MP3_320k
“They got there so fast because of our efforts with FrostClick and FrostWire,” says FrostWire.
Helping content creators of all kinds
A short while back, “FrostWire is continuing its campaign to bring music to the people,” said p2pnet.
With, “FrostWire 4.17.0, we can promote legal content, or important information using the FrostWire welcome screen,” said the team, going on »»»
We’ve vowed to never use this screen for spam or evil purposes of any kind, only to help content creators of all kinds (musicians, film makers, writers, software programers, photographers, video game shops and independent professionals) that are willing to share some of their work for free, or under creative commons licenses get their message across our ever growing network.
Sean Fournier is the first musician to do so, in only 4 days his 6 track album ‘Oh-my’ was shared via FrostWire by over 25,000 users, at the time of this writing the download count by the torrent tracker is 27,923, saving Sean almost 1 Terabyte of data sent, plus having his music on tens of thousands of computers and who knows into how many portable music players.
You can read the full story on FrostClick, our initiative towards the distribution of 100% free and legal content over FrostWire.
Ray Sytes was officially the first Hip Hop artist to be promoted on the welcome screen of FrostWire with his album Guayanese Pride from GeorgeTown to America, which includes free 8 songs and album art, p2pnet added.
Stay tuned.
supporter of downloading – Franz Ferdinand and the Web Sheriff, January 15, 2009
p2pnet – Ray Sytes Hip Hops to FrostWire, December 12, 2008
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February 3rd, 2009 at 9:17 am
The best thing is that now, the new version, FrostWire 4.17.2 [www.rosoftdownload.com/download/Windows/FrostWire], works for Windows Vista without any major problem. And, ofcourse, it is free.