Limewire shuts down permanently
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Harkat
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Think the new craze is torrenting, bitTorrent and piratebay.com are what's driving illegal downloading/sharing
There are many ways for people to "Exchange" data online, and Limewire has been plagued for years by viruses and pornography that in many instances was put there by people hired by the media companies to discredit it as a dependable source for music and movies.
They will never completely put an end to sharing of any kind, in the old days we would borrow each others albums and make cassette copies, if we liked the album enough eventually we would buy our own copy.
The scale of this phenomenon is beyond the capability of the authorities to handle in a legal way, scare tactics, bullying ISP providers, political rhetoric will be the standard operating procedure.
Until they stop the outright counterfeiting going on in Asia all this is small potatoes anyway.
They will never completely put an end to sharing of any kind, in the old days we would borrow each others albums and make cassette copies, if we liked the album enough eventually we would buy our own copy.
The scale of this phenomenon is beyond the capability of the authorities to handle in a legal way, scare tactics, bullying ISP providers, political rhetoric will be the standard operating procedure.
Until they stop the outright counterfeiting going on in Asia all this is small potatoes anyway.
OptimisticFutureBlues
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Music should be free. So should food, water and housing but you cant always get what you want. Haha. The greedy financial factor has claimed so many bright creative people. Their music becomes another dollar amount and it murders them from the inside out. Torrents and free share is a true artists dream, money should have nothing to do with music.
People like Gene Simmons who bureaucratically cling to it with fingernails are fighting a loosing battle and they know it.
People like Gene Simmons who bureaucratically cling to it with fingernails are fighting a loosing battle and they know it.
Death on Credit
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Soulseek is better anyways...but don't tell anyone I said that. 
Death on Credit
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Soulseek's always been my favorite, because you can get whole albums instead of just individual songs and you can find a lot of rare stuff on there (and I couldn't figure out how to use torrents when I was younger).
I agree with what you say above, usually if you like an album enough you're going to want to buy your own copy eventually. Plus, since I exclusively buy vinyl, those P2P sites are useful so that I can put the music onto my iPod.
I agree with what you say above, usually if you like an album enough you're going to want to buy your own copy eventually. Plus, since I exclusively buy vinyl, those P2P sites are useful so that I can put the music onto my iPod.
OptimisticFutureBlues
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I do the same exact thing. If I had to buy a separate album copy for my Ipod every time I wanted an album on there, I would be past broke.
Torrent sites get shut down routinely, and then pop up on an offshore server that is not so particular about their clients.
I have some encryption software that can only be opened by the US intelligence community, if I wanted to send stuff to someone and keep it private and I am sure there are people a lot smarter than me that can do that as well.
I have some encryption software that can only be opened by the US intelligence community, if I wanted to send stuff to someone and keep it private and I am sure there are people a lot smarter than me that can do that as well.
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