R.I.P SG

As you may or may not know, StrikeGently, a website dedicated for leaks and information on music, was seized. Many of you may have also realized that Limewire, a file sharing program, was also seized. Both of which was ordered by the RIAA. RIAA controls and regulates what is shared of the internet over time, such as illegal downloading of music. Most of the time if it is a small website you will be warned and forced to take off all links leading to free music, otherwise you will be penalized for not doing so. Brokenoise tumblr, which a majority of my information based around music is found, was notified a while back before this year about having links for free music. The site no longer posts direct links to music downloading. StrikeGently, sadly was seized and now is a dead link. This does not mean that this is the end of pirated music. Its always going to be around its just going to be harder to look for. Whether it was a smart move for the RIAA to take the site down is your personal opinion. Pirating music is always looked as this evil thing cause your stealing money from the companies. But artists only get a max of 18% of the sales. The majority goes to the Label and the Recording process. If you really want to support an artist, go see them live. They get paid more then they ever will by CD sales.