Downloading music?

[Gremlin]

I can download all I want and it's legal... As long as the other person bought it!

errr? no its not... by NZ law, you cannot even burn a copy of a CD you have bought yourself.

[homer]

after limewire stuffed the pc i now use bit torrent its way easy
and its way easier to get the programs you want or anything else

you can also see how many people actually have it before you download

[BIHB@0610]

I download songs (via Limewire) of artists I've not listened to before - to see if I like them. If I do, I buy the CD.

For instance, I'd never heard Alison Krauss before, or Eva Cassidy. I downloaded a couple of their songs and now have their CDs on my bookshelf. I don't feel bad about doing this, I think it's sort of like listening to a CD in the music store before you buy it

I've been told Limewire's legal (I'm hoping it is!). If it's not I'll re-evaluate 'cause I'm a bit of a stickler for doing the right thing .....

[homer]

The p2p programs are all legal it just depends what being sent p2p

[Livvy]

errr? no its not... by NZ law, you cannot even burn a copy of a CD you have bought yourself.

Ah crap. Oh well. I'll keep doing it anyway!

I've been told Limewire's legal (I'm hoping it is!). If it's not I'll re-evaluate 'cause I'm a bit of a stickler for doing the right thing .....

So then you'll actually go to the CD Store to listen all day long?

The p2p programs are all legal it just depends what being sent p2p

And it's such a huge thing to try and supervise these days, a lot of illegal stuff does get in... Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think many authorities really care anymore. It's not harmful to the population (though maybe to the industry).

[Romeo]

All you have to do is whack this into Google and it's all yours. Takes a bit of hunting around to find the right websites though.

song name (-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "Last modified") (mp3 | wma | ogg)

OR you could use G2P - it's a lot safer since it isn't monitored like P2P/BT :]

[CookMySock]

cough, downloading copyrighted material with Limewire is not legal..

I download heaps using torrents. Most of it isn't remotely available in NZ as I listen to alternative radio stations online, and mostly this can't be found in shops.

http://www.1.fm/Stations/X/TuneIn.aspx # alternative rock
http://somafm.com/play/groovesalad # chillout / ambient

Stuff that can be found in shops - I will buy the album if I am REALLY impressed it, because the quality is much better than MP3, and also the artist gets his dues.

DB

[homer]

cough, downloading copyrighted material with Limewire is not legal..

I download heaps using torrents. Most of it isn't remotely available in NZ as I listen to alternative radio stations online, and mostly this can't be found in shops.

http://www.1.fm/Stations/X/TuneIn.aspx # alternative rock
http://somafm.com/play/groovesalad # chillout / ambient

Stuff that can be found in shops - I will buy the album if I am REALLY impressed it, because the quality is much better than MP3, and also the artist gets his dues.

DB

Do you find the torrents are good
ive only just downloaded a few and there good as far as i can tell

[BIHB@0610]

So then you'll actually go to the CD Store to listen all day long?

Nope, I'd buy it from Itunes or one of the other digital music stores. It would probably mean I'd just buy all my stuff from something like that, rather than doing what I do now - downloading one song through Limewire then buying the CD. Actually that would be kinder to the planet too - less petrochemicals wasted in making CDs and cases!

[scracha]

In all seriousness, whether you're using Azureus (my choice), Limewire or whatever......make sure you encrypt your downloads. This is important for 2 reasons.
1) It makes it much harder for the nasty record companies to figure out what you're downloading.
2) Your ISP can't throttle the download.

Of course I may be talking bollocks.

[Mikkel]

Roll on www.piratebay.org - they rock. Apparently Sweden is a whole lot more awesome than most other countries!

I downloaded the free, light version of limewire then used it to download the pirated full version. Suckers!

"...that's the way you do - you get your music for nothing and your kicks for free..." Popular song by dire straits - anno 1984

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

I bought Limewire, and it's since paid me back a hundredfold.

I can download all I want and it's legal... As long as the other person bought it!

that does make legal to download pirated stuff...

[Finn]

When they start making music again, I'll start paying for it.

[Finn]

In all seriousness, whether you're using Azureus (my choice), Limewire or whatever......make sure you encrypt your downloads. This is important for 2 reasons.
1) It makes it much harder for the nasty record companies to figure out what you're downloading.
2) Your ISP can't throttle the download.

Of course I may be talking bollocks.

How do you encrypt downloads. Also, is it possible to throttle my ISP?

[Dargor]

The issue is that music is art not content.
A person listens to this art and want to appreciate it, they want to listen to more art, and appreciate more of it. Nobody wants to listen to a small collection of art it gets boring. People want to share music and appreciate it with other people.

To recording company's music is content, content to be sold and sold and sold until there is more content to sell.

Even at $1 pr song, if each song is 5Mb it would cost $8000 to full a 40Gb mp3 player. Thats far too much.
And everyone knows record company's take a large cut from each sale.

What we need is a system where everyone has free access to all music with easy access to make small $1 donations to the artists. People would donations because there so small and in the end musicians should end up with decent money. (if everyone in the us gave $1 a year it would be more money)

ps. If anyone gets a chance to listen to Richard Stallman talk, do, he's the man. ^ his idea.