FilePile - What Gives?

the first rule of fight club ... oh I mean..well whatever..

and you wouldn't want to mention that other place swap something or other..

It's a private filesharing community, basically. I think the stuff on the front page is public. I don't know when they closed the membership. There are about 5 or 6 regular posters of excellent music but if you've got a filesharing program anyway you're not missing out on much. THe most fun thing about it is the change for people to vote on your tastes :)

I feel bad because I have an account and I don't look at it very often and I upload even less frequently. That might change now because the work firewall seems to be letting me upload now for some reason and it never used to, but then again if I start transferring too much stuff either way every day they'll probably notice and block it completely.

(Hey, dsico, are you the person who did the Pavement vs Destiny's Child bootleg? That got stuck in my head for weeks at a time earlier this summer. Cool. But I should stop asking questions like this on ILX because nobody ever answers and I guess they are really stalkerish and everyone probably just thinks, "oh god, psycho nutcase, keep quiet and hope she goes away...")

(dsico's destiny's child, chemical brothers bootleg was the greatest thing i'd ever heard. it was heartbreakingly good. it was like, wow. now that i'm imagining it in my head it doesn't sound that good and it might not sound that good just from the description. but it's so good. the best bootleg i've ever heard. it's great. maybe that wasn't all necessary but i really, really like it. okay. now i need to figure out how to make my text small. i hope this works.)

Seriously, the site is closed, we're haven't been accepting new members freely for about a year now. On a lark I figured that if someone wanted to be on it bad enough, they can buy me something terribly expensive. I get people emailing me and pleading so much that I figure I should get compensated for running the damn thing for free for almost 3 years.

Anyway, I'll give out 1 free account to the first 5 who email me.

filepile is a lot of fun, and it's a shame that the ever-encroaching bandwidth cost issues made it go semi-private. (remember adcritic?) i don't think it's fair to fling around allegations of 'scam' -- talk to any person dealing with media-heavy sites and you'll see that they're getting utterly slammed on the cost end of things. (last year, i put up an album's worth of mp3s on my site for about two weeks, and was shocked to see that i'd been socked with a $450 bill for that month.)

hell, even 'free' sites have bandwidth limitations now, one that pretty much ended the possibility of phenomena like mahir, etc coming from a non-pay service. total bummer.

White Trash - Apple Pie

Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys - Milk Cow Blues

Lydia Murdock - Superstar

Georges Brassens - La Mauvaise Reputation

Nikka Costa - Push and Pull

Somebody send me an account...