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The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the largest and most popular in the United States. For the sixth consecutive year, SXSW has released a DRM-free, RSA Security collection of hundreds of songs that can be downloaded for free in a few clicks, thanks to BitTorrent.

In 2008, Greg Hewgill who have the time and effort to put all the MP3 files on a big river, and for 2009 and 2010 editions Ben Stolt did the same. Torrents previous editions were a great success and has been downloaded over 100,000 times.

All the tracks were made available by the artists themselves which means they are totally RIAA-SAFE. The first version of SXSW 2010 edition contains 646 titles for a total of 3.35 GB second group with another 200 titles expected to be published in the near future (edit: that was released a few hours ago.)

Good music is made by the groups that are good enough for the album, so you can buy instead of downloading. I think it is free, because any sane person to pay for it – I refer, of course, you receive a shock of some, because when people have free will, but honestly do not care.

The fact that these bands, indicating they are free, anyone buy their "music" – which suggests they are trash. In recent years (or was it 2008? Do not you remember) free SXSW music guides say normally only terrible, music sounds generic people who frankly should find a real job and try to "band" as a hobby should be.

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