Dowloading music for free

[Free Falling]

alright guys,how are we all today? really? thats great! anyway i was just wondering how much music is it ok to download for free before you get busted? there was somethin in the news this week about some student who had 10,000 things downloaded and he got a 3,000 pound fine!! do the police raid you? like a swat team or something? GO! GO! GO!

[RIPganjagirl420]

i have no idea. but just in case...get your gun ready!! lol!! you gonna be shootin some piggys!!! but naw...i got winmx that i download from and ive downloaded sooo much and no cops for me!! they cant catch everyone!! :D

[ermitonto]

Yeah, those few people they do prosecute are just for show. It's a scare tactic. Truth is, there are millions of us and there's no possible way they could even put a dent in it. Converting media to computer files and exchanging those files will always be possible as long as computers are around. Pretty much, if you don't have a website called DOWNLOAD ILLEGAL FILES HERE, you don't stand much of a chance of ever getting caught. The RIAA and the government are fighting an uphill battle, are vastly outnumbered, and are going to have to give up their futile crusade for "intellectual property" at some point. Copyrights are a thing of the past with the free flow of information.

[slipknotpsycho]

yea get on a p2p program and there's like maybe 1 in a 10000000000000 chance you'll ever get caught, literally......i'm mean if you can search thousands of key words in diffrent formats and get back 1000's or even 10000's of results for each one and almost every file belongs to a diffrent person....that gives you a basic idea how many people are on a p2p.....i've been using programs like kazza, ares, winmx and stuff for years now and have probably downloaded over a million files and i'm yet to even be scared to be caught....and no they aren't going to storm into your house for a bunch of songs.....i mean come on they got better things to do like take care of all the "hardened dangerous druggies"

[naturalmystic]

.....i mean come on they got better things to do like take care of all the "hardened dangerous druggies"












or terrorists :eek:

[mellow mood]

hey, know all the juvenile porn sites on the world? do those fuckers are gettin busted? NO! so, i think that theres no limits, the limit is your conscience. thats all. :)

[lanky jams]

just use bit torrent. theres no way they can get you for that shit

[rhinoblanco]

theres no chance that youll ever get prosecuted for any of that bullshit. ive downloaded like almost 15000 songs and never had anyone do shit about it

[rhinoblanco]

half my day is smoking blunts and listening to music i burned onto like 100 cd's

[Free Falling]

i was never scared of it happening,its never gonna happen to me, i was just wondering how far you could go,i was thinkin there most likely to be after people who downloaded full albums ,cos then there burnt on to cds and sold on,maybe?

[ermitonto]

Well, if you turned it into a big commercial venture yeah. I know one kid who made some extra bucks some years ago downloading songs and burning customs CDs for people, back when CD burners were rare. But that wouldn't even work these days. If people wanted to obtain an album illegally, they could just as easily do it themselves. There's no way you could turn it into an operation big enough for the government to notice.

[slipknotpsycho]

i was never scared of it happening,its never gonna happen to me, i was just wondering how far you could go,i was thinkin there most likely to be after people who downloaded full albums ,cos then there burnt on to cds and sold on,maybe?
done that plenty too.....dude they are not going to prosecute anyone for it....if they even go after people for shyt like that it is like 99% of the time the programs creators and people who keep it running. out of the billlions who share files illegaly how many get arrested a year? 1? maybe 2?

[Encatuse]

I used to be an elitest little bittorent junkie, so I've got a ton of music, almost all of which are of full albums. ^.^ When I heard a song I liked, I just download the whole album at once in a .rar file. 51140 files over 4,533 folders. ^.^

I'm yet to be caught.

And don't even get me started on movies...

[slipknotpsycho]

lol do'nt get me started on games, movies, and other copyrighted material

[pogo714]

that would be toooo wild if this was a record comapny sponsered event on their behalf

would not that suck

[Nullific]

Fuck the mainstream, and get PeerGuardian.
Then download the P2P blocklists.
www.methlabs.org

[Juggalotus]

lol shit i think ive went through almost ever one there is, winmx, bearshare, kazaa,and like 2 software download sites...the only problem ive ever had is viruses from kazaa, thats why i dont use it anymore...fucking trojans

[slipknotpsycho]

ares is just like kazza wtihout all the viruses....

[CanaBliss]

For those who like Kazaa download Kazaa Lite (its without the bullshit). I use Bearshare. Lots of files, security protection when installing. I happen to know a girl who lives in Florida that was searched. Her whole town was searched.

[slipknotpsycho]

kazza lite still fuked up my computer....

[Nullific]

www.shareaza.com
It is open source. The code is on source forge and freely available to anybody, this makes it impossible to put spyware/adware/malware in it.
Download it from that site and that site only. Other places on the internet have distributed fake/modified versions or try to get you to pay for it.
If you're computer is fucked up from spyware:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Some antivirus software such as Trend Micro will scan for some adware/spyware as well, free online scan available here: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

[slipknotpsycho]

due to my addiction to p2p software i've learned to correct my problems......sometimes it has to come down to a reformat....but that's easy...also spybot search and destroy is a good spyware remover.......and ccleaner can get rid of some other bad stuff plus make your computer faster if you don't know how to clean it properly...

[F L E S H]

due to my addiction to p2p software i've learned to correct my problems......sometimes it has to come down to a reformat....but that's easy...also spybot search and destroy is a good spyware remover.......and ccleaner can get rid of some other bad stuff plus make your computer faster if you don't know how to clean it properly...
Could you give me some tips on re-formatting? My hard drive badly needs, but I've never done it myself before, and I'd like to learn...

[slipknotpsycho]

uhmm......well the only ways i know to do it is have a set of system recovery disks or like my computer have a back up harddrive that makes everything back to factory condition.....and i just save the rest of my stuff on cds......but you can go to forums.devhardware.com and one of the many computer gurus i'm sure would be glad to help you....

[jakenthegentiles]

they probaly did that so they can cah himliek deeling or somshit

[Hektik]

My shared folder is 42.3 Gigz. Hella albums, programs and movies. They'd lock me up and throw away the key :p

[STP]

i use shareaza too and exeem. heard limewire is great too they run on the same network as bearshare and shareaza i think..
exeem is the best for big files! dvds, games, apps..

[SomeGuy]

just take it out of your shared folder when you get up to about 500 songs there...I have thousands of songs and movies and stuff...and they cant do anything about it

[rick reefers]

alright guys,how are we all today? really? thats great! anyway i was just wondering how much music is it ok to download for free before you get busted? there was somethin in the news this week about some student who had 10,000 things downloaded and he got a 3,000 pound fine!! do the police raid you? like a swat team or something? GO! GO! GO!

I don't thing they are as concerned with people who download as they are with people who UPLOAD in bulk, who go out on the first day of release and buy a copy and immediately put it out on the web.Discretion is the word.

[Gothen]

I got caught. Sorta. I was downloading a movie for my aunt (Rundown) and they caught me and sent an email to web provider.

Provider says if I'm caught again, they turn off the net for us.

So, I got smart and started using blocker programs etc etc.

I also hardly keep anything in My Shared Folder. But my ALL MULTIMEDIA (homemade) folder is 44.5 Gigs big. Downloaded albums, games, soundtracks, books, comics, movies, tv shows, and programs I've downloaded.

If they found me with all THAT stuff, I'd be so screwed.