Huge Web Protest Today – Sites Uploading The Grey Album

[JackSpratts]

Today is Grey Tuesday. Websites throughout North America and the world are protesting RIAA-member EMI’s decision to prevent distribution of the Grey Album, a critically received hip hop mash-up with tracks sampled from both the 35 year old Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z’s Black Album of 2003.

The original Grey Album had a small pressing of a few thousand copies and then was withdrawn under protest by the artist DJ Danger Mouse after EMI threatened legal action.

The web sites participating in today's action will host the Grey album in it’s entirety. Many of the sites hosting the Album have received RIAA cease and desist orders but are continuing with the protest in spite of them.

- js.



Sites That Are Hosting The Grey Album Today, Feb. 24th

(M) Productions - m-productions.org
113b.tk - 113b.tk
83tilinfinity.com/ - 83tilinfinity.com/
860design.com - 860design.com
Ai-em.net - ai-em.net
bootyhouse.org - bootyhouse.org
B.R.I.D.G.E.Z. - bridgezmag.com
Bracha Goleshet - goleshet.com
BurningAnnie.com - BurningAnnie.com
Consortium For Undermining Conservative Thought - cfuct.org
DJ Variable - windmond.dyndns.org/djvariable
Digispace Records - digispacerecords.com/
Downhill Battle - downhillbattle.org
eyesun.dhs.org - eyesun.dhs.org
Fatal Mistake - fatal-mistake.net
Free The Media - www.freethemedia.com
Horklog - horkulated.com/index.php
In My Room - inmyroom.omnihosts.net/blog
Ingenuitous - ingentious.com
Judolight - thejudomadonna.kicks-ass.org/phpBB2
Kingcanyon.org - www.kingcanyon.org
Kunfuzed Mynds - kunfuzedmynds.com
Light From An Empty Fridge - www.fridgemagnet.org.uk
Lyrical War - lyricalwar.com
Mancuso Media - mancusomedia.org
Mathcaddy.com - mathcaddy.com
Michael Herring Design - michaelherringdesign.com
michaelhanscom.com - www.michaelhanscom.com
Musical Bear - musicalbear.com
Musick For Our Children - mfoc.de
mostlymuppet.com - mostlymuppet.com My Analog Life - nofi.org
News Trolls - newstrolls.com
Normlife.com - normlife.com
trainque.com - trainque.com
Nubytes - nubytes.com
Numia - numia.org
OHM - saviorsofpop.net
Our Nation Of Thoutlessness - ournationofthoughtlessness.com
Philosophistry - philosophistry.com
Riot Grrrl Fredericksburg - rgfb.8m.com
sequent.org - sequent.org
Sir Bump - sirbump.com
Sound Slam - soundslam.com
Stephen Laniel's Unspecified Bunker - (long link)
synthesize.us - synthesize.us
aypwip.org - aypwip.org
Stephen's Web - downes.ca
Strange Interlude - strangeinterlude.net
Team Shocker - teamshocker.com
TDBRecords - TDBRecords.com
That's How It Happened - howithappened.com
The Little Room - kylehebert.blogspot.com
The MP3 Truth - themp3truth.com
The World Around Me - mancusomedia.org/blog
Thee Butterscotch Threshold - www.thebutterscotchthreshold.com
This Cathartic Nail - freethinkersmovement.com/cathartic
Vauss - www.vauss.com
Writing My Name In Water - danwinckler.com
akenanet.com - akenanet.com/grey
arellanes.com - arellanes.com
benquilter.com - benquilter.com
blueskin.bloguje.cz - blueskin.bloguje.cz
bluetack.co.uk - bluetack.co.uk
bwilms.com - bwilms.com
chezlubacov.org - chezlubacov.org
cpmwww.com - cpmwww.com
cscott.net - cscott.net
dabeatz.com - dabeatz.com
damodred.net - damodred.net
darkcalgary.com - darkcalgary.com
death-watch.com - death-watch.com/thegreyalbum
deepsea.force9.co.uk - deepsea.force9.co.uk
deliciousentertainmentmusic.com - deliciousentertainmentmusic.com
denyerec.co.uk - denyerec.co.uk
diggastyle.com - diggastyle.com
druhkram.com - druhkram.com
edgeEye - edgeeye.com
edverb.com - edverb.com
elramsay.com - elramsay.com/caught/ fatherstorm.com - fatherstorm.com
fobiopatel.com - www.fobiopatel.com foundationdeckstands.com - foundationdeckstands.com
fourstones.net - fourstones.net
francisco.terawap.co.uk - francisco.terawap.co.uk/grey_album/
ftp://ftp.whatthedale.com/dm_grey_album - ftp:// ftp.whatthedale.com/dm_grey_album
ftp://grey:album@amplify.myftp.org - ftp:// grey:album@amplify.myftp.org
www.girlsareweird.com - www.girlsareweird.com
gisleson.com - gisleson.com/blog
ginaric.com - ginaric.com
gomercentral.com - gomercentral.com
grey.green-blue.org
grey.servemp3.com - grey.servemp3.com/~grey
greytuesday.raxian.com - http://greytuesday.raxian.com/
grinder.freeshell.org - grinder.freeshell.org
hektik.org - hektik.org
hiphophobbyklub.nl - hiphophobbyklub.nl
hiphopinjesmoel.com - hiphopinjesmoel.com
hipinion.com - hipinion.com/grey.php
horseforce.net - horseforce.net
insanefame.com - insanefame.com
jaydeflix.com - jaydeflix.com
jeweledplatypus.org - jeweledplatypus.org
joegrossberg.com - joegrossberg.com
joopy.nu - joopy.nu
keepitonthedownload.com - www.keepitonthedownload.com
kembrew.com - kembrew.com
kiosk-of-love.com - www.kiosk-of-love.com
laslo.co.uk - laslo.co.uk
ld50.com - ld50.com
m4hireentertainment.ipbhost.com - m4hireentertainment.ipbhost.com
members.lycos.nl/freedownload1500/music - members.lycos.nl/ freedownload1500/music
mijnkopthee.nl - mijnkopthee.nl
mine.nu/ - greyalbum.mine.nu/
miserychick.net - miserychick.net
music2g.com - music2g.com
musiccollection.nu - musiccollection.nu
naraznik.vozovna.cz - naraznik.vozovna.cz
nebulose.net - nebulose.net
null-a.org - null-a.org
offmessage.com - offmessage.com
oniochalasia.tk - oniochalasia.tk
oracle.zenic.net - oracle.zenic.net
partiallyblind.com - partiallyblind.com
peteashton.com - peteashton.com
phark.typepad.com - phark.typepad.com
pieceoplastic.com - pieceoplastic.com
piratetv.net - piratetv.net
radioaid.com - radioaid.com
rawr.net - www.rawr.net
reddoktoba.com - reddoktoba.com
rednoise.org - rednoise.org
republicum.se - republicum.se
retchandcrynge.com/ - retchandcrynge.com/
savedelete.com - savedelete.com
seren.net - seren.net
sixfoot6 - sixfoot6.com
slumdance.com - slumdance.com/blogs/brian_flemming/archives/ 000647.html
splinterdata.com - splinterdata.com
spygeek.com - spygeek.com
stoneorchids.net - stoneorchids.net
stungeye.com - stungeye.com
sugarbooty.com - sugarbooty.com
tastypopsicle.com - tastypopsicle.com
teamgoodguys.com - teamgoodguys.com
textz.com - textz.com/greyalbum
thegreyalbum.blipsqueak.com - thegreyalbum.blipsqueaks.com
tomservo.net - tomservo.net
trash.dork.cx - trash.dork.cx/grey_album
undergroundmusicshoppingchannel.com - undergroundmusicshoppingchannel.com
wheresthebeef.co.uk - wheresthebeef.co.uk
somethingentertainment.co.uk - somethingentertainment.co.uk
vauss.com - vauss.com
www.damodred.net - www.damodred.net www.gregsmithies.sytes.net - www.gregsmithies.sytes.net
www.neilchilson.com - www.neilchilson.com
www.seldik.com - www.seldik.com
www.sleep-dream-die.com - www.sleep-dream-die.com
www.xanga.com/plus_c - www.xanga.com/plus_c



Sites That Have Turned Grey

2guysnogirlnawebsite.com - 2guysnogirlnawebsite.com
90% Crud - george.hotelling.net/
Academix Records - www.academixrecords.com
Action Slacker - actionslacker.com
albumgeek.com - albumgeek.com
Allure Promotions - allurepromotions.tk
thehiatus.net - thehiatus.net
andreastein.org - andreastein.org
A Whole Nother Studio - awholenotherstudio.com
AmpMinot.com - AmpMinot.com
Aural Delight - auraldelight.net
angryguy.org - angryguy.org
BarfBarfMarina - cigarettesandwater.com/bbm
beatsareus.com - beatsareus.com
Belita Adair Music Medium - belitamusicmedium.com
Belita Adair Music Medium - www.belitamusicmedium.com
Belmont University Copyright Society - belmontcopyright.com
Bigmalik - bigmalik.com
Blogcritics.org - Blogcritics.org
BobbyBurbank.com - BobbyBurbank.com
Boing Boing (!) - boingboing.net
Brian Hamilton - bdhamilton.com
burntchicken.com - burntchicken.com
Comic Toast - comic-toast.com
crashingjets.nu - crashingjets.nu
Culture Kitchen - culturekitchen.com
Discarnate - discarnate.org
Disturbed Confusion - disturbedconfusion.com
cyphersex.com - cyphersex.com
Solhosting - http://www.solhosting.com
Dorx.cx - www.dorx.cx
Download Music Mart - downloadmusicmart.com
DrEaMs In DiGiTaL - www.DrEaMs-In-DiGiTaL.tk
desktopsareus.com - desktopsareus.com
Damn Your Ayes - dya.manxblogs.co.uk/
Dustyhouse.org - Dustyhouse.org
Everichon - everichon.com
Ewawoowa - ewawoowa.com/ewawoowa/
Filters Magazine - filtersmag.com
Focus Media - www.focusmedia.org
grey.green-blue.org - Gentle Jones - gentlejones.com
gether.org.uk - gether.org.uk
GobletWillRockYourCocksOff.com - GobletWillRockYourCocksOff.com
Grabbing Sand - grabbingsand.com
Gravatt - integrationresearch.org/gravatt
entroporium.com - entroporium.com
somethingentertainment.co.uk - somethingentertainment.co.uk
HipHopMag.com - HipHopMag.com
jimmature.blogspot.com - jimmature.blogspot.com
greytuesday.holotone.net - greytuesday.holotone.net
Industrial Something - industrialsomething.org
International Music Industry Reform Association - imira.org
G.A.ME - kickgame.com
KRBS-lp 107.1 FM - radiobirdstreet.org
nerdysouth.com - nerdysouth.com
hornbuckle.org - hornbuckle.org
Kottke - www.kottke.org
Lyrical Headbustas - littleeyeontheworld.com - littleeyeontheworld.com
m4hireentertainment.ipbhost.com
Man, Myth, Morland - morland.theoretic.org
Miniscule Wombat - minisculewombat.com
Music For America - musicforamerica.org
maximumletdown.com - maximumletdown.com
Nu-teztament.com - nu-teztament.com
injusticebusters.com - injusticebusters.com
OSBRadio.comand - OSBRadio.comand
One Man And His Blog - 20six.co.uk/bulentyusuf
Pixod - pixod.com
Redlucite - www.redlucite.org
Sampo: The Journal Of Abundant Media - www.charm.net/~pete/ pete.cgi
radicaldreamer.org - radicaldreamer.org
www.ill-natured.com - www.ill-natured.com
rantings And Ravings 2.0 - rantings.shaghaghi.net
skylab.ws - skylab.ws
Shift - www.shiftfilm.com
Simpatico Buttons - http://www.simpaticobuttons.com
Skratchlab Radio - www.skratchlab.com
Slabathon - slabathon.cjb.net
Stephen's Stuff - stephen.speedwebdesign.com/
strangerecords.com - strangerecords.com
Oz Productions - www.ozproductionsmusic.com
Submit Response - submitresponse.co.uk/mt
Subterranean Notes - hine-digital-art.com/weblog/weblog.html
Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons - Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons The Comatorium - thecomatorium.com The Counter Flip - jonferrer.com/counterflip
The Weinerboard - wienerboard.com The Wireless Weblog - thewireless.blogspot.com
Thoughtrepository - www.thoughtrepository.com
Ultimateinsult - www.ultimateinsult.net
WSMF - wsmf.org
vlokfeest.net - vlokfeest.net
Yahtzee Ninja - livejournal.com/users/yahtzeeninja
agentshiphop.com - agentshiphop.com
alesandra.net - alesandra.net
andread.typepad.com - andread.typepad.com
angelfire.com/ks3/acidsuicide - angelfire.com/ks3/acidsuicide
angelsonico.com - angelsonico.com
atmaspheric | endeavors - www.atmasphere.net/mt
badadmin.net - badadmin.net
balderstone.ca - balderstone.ca
bangsplatpresents.com - bangsplatpresents.com
bassnote.tk - bassnote.tk
blog.condimentking.com - blog.condimentking.com
blog.jonhenshaw.com - blog.jonhenshaw.com
blogged.co.uk - blogged.co.uk
blogger bloggen blogs - onlinetagebuecher.de
blogundanga.com - blogundanga.com
carolynhack.com - carolynhack.com
citizenkeith.com - citizenkeith.comcitizenkeith.com
cloudsinthehead.org - cloudsinthehead.org
colorwhirl.livejournal.com - colorwhirl.livejournal.com
condsc.com - condsc.com
consumerwhore.biz - consumerwhore.biz
d8uv.com - d8uv.com
damien.nu - damien.nu
darius.hipjones.com - darius.hipjones.com
deepshell.net - deepshell.net
donewaiting.com - donewaiting.com dork.cx - dork.cx
dqshrine.com/~draquestar - dqshrine.com/~draquestar
draves.org - draves.org
ecaon.homelinux.org - ecaon.homelinux.org
electricsheep.org - electricsheep.org
fairsharers.com - fairsharers.com
flam3.com - flam3.com
fotap.org - fotap.org
free-conversant.com/thom - free-conversant.com/thom
losratones.com - losratones.com
freon84.blogspot.com - freon84.blogspot.com
fujichia.com - fujichia.com
garrettguillotte.com - garrettguillotte.com
geekpunk - www.geekpunk.net
geocities.com/stevejvancamp/VanCamp.html - geocities.com/ stevejvancamp/VanCamp.html
giagia.blogspot.com - giagia.blogspot.com
grillo.tk - grillo.tk
groonk.net - groonk.net
groups.msn.com/Cryingbutstrong/messages.msnw - groups.msn.com/Cryingbutstrong/messages.msnw
hiphopmusic.com - hiphopmusic.com
hobbsnfam.com - hobbsnfam.com
home.earthlink.net/~starwrek - home.earthlink.net/~starwrek
homepage.ntlworld.com/s.huda - homepage.ntlworld.com/s.huda
idledays.net - idledays.net
indexconcept.com - indexconcept.com
j-san.net - j-san.net
jashter.com - jashter.com
john-book.com - john-book.com
jointz.com - jointz.com
karlmuzziklab.blogspot.com - karlmuzziklab.blogspot.com
ctown.blogspot.com - ctown.blogspot.com

leisurely.com - leisurely.com
livejournal.com/users/avalanche641 - livejournal.com/users/ avalanche641
livejournal.com/users/fullofstarz - livejournal.com/users/fullofstarz
livejournal.com/users/helloapollo - livejournal.com/users/helloapollo
livejournal.com/users/sedesdraconis - livejournal.com/users/ sedesdraconis/
livejournal.com/users/soyfeo408 - livejournal.com/users/soyfeo408
livejournal.com/users/umopepisdn - www.livejournal.com/users/ umopepisdn
livejournal.com/~thirty2seconds - www.livejournal.com/ ~thirty2seconds
lwray.mit.edu - lwray.mit.edu
make-believe.org - make-believe.org mediaandshopping.co.uk - mediaandshopping.co.uk
members.tripod.com/RomanaImperia - members.tripod.com/ RomanaImperia
mindnumbles.org - mindnumbles.org
miqrogroove.com - miqrogroove.com
modal.hipjones.com - modal.hipjones.com
muteme.cz - muteme.cz
netzoo.net - netzoo.net
www.nomig.net - www.nomig.net
nuttnet.net - nuttnet.net
odawg003.blogspot.com - odawg003.blogspot.com
p2pnet - p2pnet.net
phallacy.net - phallacy.net
pentdego.com - pentdego.com
perceptionalism.com - perceptionalism.com
peterparkeronair.com - peterparkeronair.com
porcelainrocks.com -porcelainrocks.com
potatoland.com - potatoland.com
radiobots.tk - radiobots.tk
raef.dyndns.org - raef.dyndns.org
randypavelich.com - randypavelich.com
redvolume.com - redvolume.com
remoconscious.com - remoconscious.com
rhapsodic.org - rhapsodic.org
rickbradley.com/chron/20040224/ - rickbradley.com/chron/ 20040224/
rybanaruby.net - rybanaruby.net
scheme23a.com - scheme23a.com
savehiphop.org - savehiphop.org
scottandrew.com - scottandrew.com
sjarvis.com - sjarvis.com
srijith.net - srijith.net
sushipjs.blogspot.com - sushipjs.blogspot.com
tempting.pitas.com - tempting.pitas.com
tenser.ca - tenser.ca
tenyearsof.us - tenyearsof.us
tussenhaakjes.nl - tussenhaakjes.nl
ukol.net - ukol.net
napsterization.org - napsterization.org
tzonbryan.is-a-geek.org/ - tzonbryan.is-a-geek.org/myblog/ blosxom.cgi vauss.com/buntz - www.vauss.com/buntz
vinylexchange.com - vinylexchange.com
viper007bond.com - viper007bond.com
viper24-7.com - viper24-7.com
vurt.dsl.pipex.com - vurt.dsl.pipex.com
volkomenkut.com - volkomenkut.com
vranqz.nl - vranqz.nl
wchulseiee.net - wchulseiee.net
weightlessmusic.com - weightlessmusic.com
wheresthebeef.co.uk - wheresthebeef.co.uk
www.3am.com - http://www.3am.com
www.blogography.com - www.blogography.com/
www.govtechnews.com - www.govtechnews.com
www.hipjones.com - www.hipjones.com
www.jedistarfighter.net - www.jedistarfighter.net
www.jeremyflint.com - www.jeremyflint.com
www.kennel17.co.uk - www.kennel17.co.uk
www.livejournal.com/users/fixedstars - www.livejournal.com/users/ fixedstars
www.mrpink.net - www.mrpink.net
www.rimboy.com - www.rimboy.com
www.sedesdraconis.com - www.sedesdraconis.com
www.sumitsays.com - www.sumitsays.com
xanga.com/bronko33 - xanga.com/bronko33
xanga.com/foreverboreded - xanga.com/foreverboreded
zenarchery - zenarchery.com

[span]

just think...if lame ass rappers could consistantly make their own beats instead of stealing 35 yr old ones none of this would be happening.

[Drakonix]

High speed downloads are neat.

[JackSpratts]

Aftermath

Defiant Downloads Rise From Underground
Bill Werde

More than 300 Web sites and blogs staged a 24-hour online protest yesterday over a record company's efforts to stop them from offering downloadable copies of "The Grey Album." A popular underground collection of music, "The Grey Album" mixes tracks from the Beatles' classic White Album with raps from Jay-Z's latest release, "The Black Album."

The protesters billed the event as "Grey Tuesday," calling it "a day of coordinated civil disobedience," during which more than 150 sites offered the album for download. Recording industry lawyers saw it as 24 hours of mass copyright infringement and sent letters to the Web sites demanding that they not follow through on the protest.

"The Grey Album" is a critically praised collection of tracks created by Brian Burton, a Los Angeles D.J. who records as Danger Mouse. Mr. Burton created the album by layering Jay-Z's a cappella raps from "The Black Album," released on Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella label, over music he arranged using melodies and rhythms from "The Beatles," commonly known as the White Album.

Mr. Burton did not seek permission from EMI, which owns the publishing rights to the White Album. When EMI learned that Mr. Burton was distributing "The Grey Album" early this month, its lawyers sent him a cease-and-desist letter, and Mr. Burton complied.

EMI views any distribution, reproduction or public performance of "The Grey Album" to be a copyright violation. "They may say EMI is trying to stop an artwork," said Jeanne Meyer, an EMI spokeswoman, referring to the Web sites, "but they neglect to understand that there is a well-established market for licensing samples, and Mr. Burton didn't participate in it."

Some protesters say "The Grey Album" illustrates a need for revisions in copyright law. They say that sampling should be allowed under fair use of copyrighted material, or that a system of fair compensation should be created to allow for sampling.

"To a lot of artists and bedroom D.J.'s, who are now able to easily edit and remix digital files of their favorite songs using inexpensive computers and software, pop music has become source material for sonic collages," said Nicholas Reville, a co-founder of Downhill Battle, an organization of music industry activists who promoted Grey Tuesday.

Jonathan Zittrain, a director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, said the issue is indeed a gray one. "As a matter of pure legal doctrine, the Grey Tuesday protest is breaking the law, end of story," Mr. Zittrain said. "But copyright law was written with a particular form of industry in mind. The flourishing of information technology gives amateurs and home-recording artists powerful tools to build and share interesting, transformative, and socially valuable art drawn from pieces of popular culture. There's no place to plug such an important cultural sea change into the current legal regime."

He said that under copyright law a judge can impose damages as high as $150,000 for each infringement.

To create a collection like "The Grey Album" legally, an artist would first have to get permission to use copyrighted material. Then he would have to negotiate compensation with the copyright holder. Many artists, however, like the Beatles, will not allow their music to be sampled. But even if permission is granted, it is common for a copyright holder to request more than 50 percent of publishing rights for a new song created from the copyrighted work. So if Mr. Burton had been able to get permission to make "The Grey Album" from both the Beatles and Jay-Z, he would probably have had to give away more than 100 percent of his publishing rights.

Around the same time Mr. Burton received his cease-and-desist letter, his album was receiving critical acclaim in Rolling Stone magazine. The album took on a distribution life of its own online, circulated via file-trading sites and on e-Bay, where bootleg CD's were selling for as much as $80 yesterday. Two weeks ago EMI issued cease-and- desist letters to an undisclosed number of record stores and e-Bbay sellers.

Downhill Battle went live last Wednesday with a site devoted to the protest, Greytuesday.org. In 12 hours it had more than 40 sites signed on to participate. Within two days, Greytuesday.org reached the top ranking on Blogdex and Popdex, Web sites that track which sites are being linked to from blogs.

Monday night lawyers for EMI issued cease-and-desist letters to more than 150 Web sites participating in the protest. The letter said distribution of "The Grey Album" "will subject you to serious legal remedies for willful violation of the laws."

By yesterday afternoon some of the Web masters of the protesting sites said they had served 85 to 100 copies of the album, while other reported as many as 1,000 downloads.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/25/ar...ic/25REMI.html

[multi]

good stuff !
..glad i was just able to still nail a copy.
thanks to people that put up this page:

I think many musicians understand the fluid nature of music and art...They recognize how self-referential it is, and how the progress and growth of any art happens mostly through small deviations from the norm, and that a complete paradigm shift - a wholly new form or style - is awfully rare...We're all products of our influences...It's our nature...

I think most lawyers and label executives don't understand any of that...

They also don't understand the simpler thrills of doing what Danger Mouse did here - having fun with music, testing the limits of the gear and one's own creativity...He challenged himself with a specific idea, and he sat down and worked it out, and it turned out pretty damn cool, and he's rightfully proud of it...but I bet he's done tons of stuff since this...

Keep moving on, ya know? That's the nature of an artist too...

The Grey Album is out here in the world now...It will be written about in popular music books twenty years from now, and for those who care, we'll remember it as a fun and interesting "event", and a fine album to have on our harddrives and iPods...EMI can't really stop those who care from hearing it, and sharing it, and sometimes ya gotta believe that those same lawyers and label executives really don't understand business either...Sales of Beatle records will not suffer in the least from this...If anything, this is going to help them sell more White Albums...And even if they don't, who cares? They've sold plenty already...
from

nice and weird yo!

they got techno bad cool

[telefunkin_u47]

I ripped about 2 dozen copies of the album, and attached a printout of the http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html write up to them, and left them in the break room at my office. When i went back after 2 hrs they were all gone.

[JackSpratts]

Originally posted by telefunkin_u47
I ripped about 2 dozen copies of the album, and attached a printout of the http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html write up to them, and left them in the break room at my office. When i went back after 2 hrs they were all gone.

- js.

[telefunkin_u47]

I think everyone should burn at least 2 copies of this cd an hand them out randomly(with at least a link to the story behind it) to random people.

They might manage to stop the websites from distributing the material, but if 2,000 people give out 4,000 copies and only half those people give out copies and so on.......the #'s add up to alot of people having copies.......

[multi]

saw this on slyck..

The tremendous success of DownhillBattle's Grey Tuesday floored a lot of people, especially EMI.

"After a quick preliminary survey of sites that hosted files during Grey Tuesday, we are certain that the Grey Album was the number one album in the country yesterday (by a lot)," says DHB

"Danger Mouse 'moved more units than Norah Jones and Kanye West, and the Grey Album easily went gold in a day (over 100,000 copies).

That's power. And it's from the people.
from

[multi]

http://www.greyvideo.com/


this is worth a look..

[assorted]

So you guys hosted it too that day, right? Surely, a site dedicated like this one is to p2p would absolutely have the courage to put up the file right on the front page like all these other sites. Right?