I used to d/l off of Napster and then there was another file sharing program whose name escapes me right now. I guess my question is, are there any legal file sharing sites left? Or somewhere that I can download music and not get in trouble?
Limwire is free also. They do have an "upgraded" version which you can pay for, but this by no means makes it legal. The best bet is to stay with napster or yahoo music or something like that.
mirc is no way legal or more safe than say bit torrents or your regular ol' p2p apps. it's very possible to download **** illegal and get away with it if youre not a total moron. :wink: but if you are the paranoid type, you should use the paid napster, itunes music store, or real networks thingy, or whatever else legal music site/apps are out there.
So now that I had to go buy a new computer (very long story) and can acutally make CD's again, I searched for this thread. I know some of you have got to be d/ling music for free. Where? LOL PM me if you don't want to say on the board. And btw-I'm not talking about 100's of songs, and I am not planning on re-selling anything. I just want a few CD's to mix for my listening pleasure at work where I can't pick up a radio station.
Personally, I use news groups to download my royalty-free, public domain music. However, as I'm searching for the royalty-free, public domain music, I see lots and lots of other music ranging from 40's Big Band to current rips from studio pre-release masters (and everything in between). That is, as I say, while I'm legally downloading my royalty-free, public domain music.
Bit-Torrents are the way to go in my opinion. azureus is my norm. Torrent Spy or various others. But With Torrents you are more than likely to get a set of albums vs one album.
Oh, it's ok for you to download music and hurt the music industry investors returns but don't complain about oil prices and your retirement investments??? Sometimes you take the cake Clif. What's wrong, CD prices too high for you? But then again you are the "A" typical American right now. You only care about what's good for you. Anyone who downloads illegally is a thief, period. You can dress it up with "It's only for me." or "I'm not going to d/l much." but the truth is its stealing. As a prior poster said, d/l from the legal sites and pay. Otherwise you may become a statistic and an example of the music industries wrath.
If Clif is, or has, only d/l & listened to the “royalty-free, public domain" music then we need to plan an intervention for him and help out. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Probably not what you want but . . . http://www.salon.com/ is a subscription magazine I subscribe to for news, from a left of center perspective, and a number of other things. One of the nice things from this inexpensive site is that they have a daily legal download where they search and post the best free music for daily downloading. There are hundreds of tunes available in their archives with the bulk of it being independent music. Also i-Tunes gives away about three tunes a week on their site but the quality of these offerings are questionable. To get whole albums I don't know how you can do that legally other than the way Clif is doing it.
You have two options to download music legally. Either royalty-free (basically recordings from the 30's, or garage bands who just want to get their stuff out), or copies of music you already own in another format (such as vinyl albums). The RIAA is trying to prevent the latter, by the way, but as of this posting, it is still legal. Do I download illegally? Absolutely not! I am a programmer and know full well what kind of loss is taken for piracy. I don't want it done to me, so I won't do it to anyone else.
I'm not advocating illegal downloading. That's why I asked if there were any LEGAL file sharing places left. As of right now, I can't seem to get my firewall to allow anything through anyway, so it may not matter, lol...
