disfigured

I know but............

I just rebuilt my Beatles collection this morning having lost it (and all Itunes) due to a reformat. It would have been about a $100.00 morning if I had done it legally.

I gotta buy me a cheapy 7200RPM drive and start backing this shit up.

Thank god my collection wasn't "extensive".

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EvilMonkey

Then it's a flaw in their system. I take it you can't re-download songs that you've already purchased? That being the case I wouldn't buy it again either, screw that.

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brian_wilbanks

Do you like the file sharing programs or prefer the torrent sites?

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disfigured

I just got back into it recently, and have been using LimeWire. Works good for my purposes.

I never got into the bittorrent stuff all that much. I did briefly for PC game MODS because of their size, but soon after broadband came out, and compression wasn't as much of an issue.

I know people that swear by it though.

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brian_wilbanks

I've never used Limewire...but I used WINMX when it was big, and still use emule from time to time....but it's so littered with garbage and kid porn zip files disguised as music collections that I dont trust anything I download from it.

The thing about the Torrents is that you can get entire collections at incredible speeds.

I "rebuilt" my beatles collection too a while back. my average speed was over 150K/sec and got 4 gigs of music in one file.

I love it

Torrentspy.com was recently shut down, but Demonoid.com is still up.But unless you're a registered member, you're limitd to what you can DL.

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disfigured

Well I didn't pay of it the first time, but that would have been an advantage if I had. :-).


Most of the stuff I download on LimeWire is so old that the douchebags who do that stuff don't target it as vehicles for spreading malicious content.They pray on the "too good to be true" surfers. Expensive programming, new songs, early releases, stuff like that. Or at least it seems that way from my end. I rarely get a song that does something suspicious, and my listing contain very little "junk". I use the filter, but that works for me because I'm looking for older, very specific songs.

I should get into the torrent systems again. I'm more PC savy then LimeWire. Right now though, it's working well for the purposes I use it.

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brian_wilbanks

yeah, I'm generally looking for older stuff myself. And you're right that it's the "too good to be true" stuff that seems to be malicious.

The thing I like about the torrents though is that it seems to be MUCH faster than P2P. I can't wait 4 days for a complete discography to DL.

I dont want to go into any detail on here....but you can also find software on there as well and I've yet to be disapointed.

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disfigured

Oh I know what you speak of on both accounts. For game mods which can be enormous there's no better way.

As for the other stuff.......... ;-).

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brian_wilbanks

I'm not a gamer, so I've no experience with those.

But I do like being able to create a pdf without paying $500 to do so.

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Insipid

It would be refreshing if just ONCE someone would admit that they download songs illegally because they KNOW they can get away with it and not resort to this kind of sophistic reasoning. It is stealing, and the only reason why you're doing it is because you know you can't get caught. I doubt you'd feel the same about going into a record store and stealing CDs.

To me these are just flowery words to justify stealing. You can substitute anything:

Peace of mind and harmony is too important to stop me from being able to shoot that annoying mother fucker who who insists on driving in the speed lane at 40 mph with his right blinker on.


Yes, i know the arguments: the music industry is evil, yada yada yada. I consider walmart pretty evil too, but i won't steal from them even if i KNEW i could get away with it. Stealing is stealing. Plus, there are artists losing money from illegal downloads, it's not JUST metalica. Don't fool yourself.