While that may be, I'm certainly not going to complain about the cover on a free bonus show that DT didn't need to give us at all.
I might have missed something, but do we know it's gonna be free? I didn't even realize that. I was ready to throw my money at it.
It will be available at 6:00am Eastern Standard Time and will continue to be available through AT LEAST mid-January....
It will be distributed via BitTorrent so once it's going, who knows how long it will go.
I have chosen a group of people (primarily members of Grateful Dreams Trading) to start downloading the torrent from me on Dec 23rd so there will be PLENTY of seeders once it goes live for the general public. There should be at least 50 seeders at that time so it will be a quick download.
The files are encoded in lossless FLAC. Tagged, with artwork!
Typically, the "6:00 on a Christmas Morning" gifts from DT, in the past, have all been free downloads, a treat for the fans. I don't recall the past ones, but this has been a long-running tradition, IIRC.
Also, for being a wide-spread BitTorrent download, I doubt they could keep track of it to charge money for it. It sounds like it will be completely free of charge. The only issues will be the lag the start where there will undoubtedly be thousands and thousands of leechers and only 50 seeders. After a few hours, though, provided the initial chunk of leechers have decent high-speed connections and
leave their seeds running for most of the day (if not ALL day...c'mon, it'll be Christmas), the download rates for the torrent should speed up.
-Marc.