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Link from where you can download the torrent/ FREE MUSIC:
http://sites.google.com/site/sxswtorrent/

Provided by:
http://2010.sxsw.com/music

Here are the links for You to start downloading right here, right now!

2010 Torrents

These torrents include all the MP3 files publicly available on the SXSW website as of March 6, 2010. There are 1038 files totaling 5.43GB.

The first torrent was initially seeded on February 15, 2010 and the second on March 6, 2010:

• SXSW_2010_Showcasing_Artists_Part1.torrent - 646 files, 3.35GB
• SXSW_2010_Showcasing_Artists_Part2.torrent - 392 files, 2.08GB

Torrents are extremely well seeded at this point and should be a speedy download.

Please keep the torrents open as long as possible after downloading!

 
Update: Torrents for 2005-2009 are back online! See the sidebar for details.

If you need a good BitTorrent client, I suggest:

• Vuze - http://www.vuze.com/Download.html
• uTorrent - http://www.utorrent.com/download.php
  

Please note: If artists chose not to submit an MP3 for SXSW it will not be included here, even if available elsewhere online. Please don't ask.

Feedback: bstolt at gmail.com

Bands and labels normally get nervous when people start slinging around their music on BitTorrent, but this time, they won't likely complain. Starting in 2005, the organizers of SXSW themselves posted massive zip files containing the music of hundreds of bands scheduled to play the festival, for people to trade on file sharing networks as a way of promoting their festival and the bands playing there.

When SXSW ceased that practice in 2008 in favor of posting songs individually, the crowd stepped in to continue the tradition of offering the whole shebang as a big torrent download. Greg Hewill built a torrent for that year and reposted the previous ones, after SXSW had taken them down. Ben Stolt took over in 2009 and also created this year's unofficial SXSW Torrents site, which includes links to all five annual editions.

Source: Wired.com