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Offline Morpheus

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« on: June 02, 2004, 08:05:11 PM »
........if I use P2P programs to download Mp3s?

A few days ago I rounded up all my programs and MP3s and saved them to another one of my comptuers and reformated the machine. It was so full of spy junk that I can't even begin to tell you the problems I had with it.

I used the machine to do the more risky things like download songs programs ect... Once I'd get them I'd make sure they were clean and move them to another machine. But I had to reformat the other day. It was just too much. Hijackers, trojans, you name it I probably had it lol.

So with all of the lawsuits going on and people getting busted for downloading MP3s. Is it still safe to download them? The way I've seen things, is that if you download massive amounts of songs then you are more likely to get busted. I could be wrong but that seems to be the trend of things.

Anyways, what are the better P2P programs out there? Kazza just seems to suck more than the rest. I used Lime Wire for a while, up until a few days ago. But I could be over looking a better program. Any ideas?

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Offline snapperhead

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« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2004, 08:09:01 PM »
Kazaa Lite used to be the best program out there, however it isnt immune to the RIAA's eyes.  Stick with IRC, newsgroups, or bit torrent.
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« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2004, 08:35:19 PM »
It is not illegal to download.
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« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2004, 08:40:38 PM »
Get your affairs in order, you will probably spend the next twenty years doing hard time!   :D

I wouldn't sweat it, you probably have a better chance of getting hit with lightning.

Besides, they aren't prosecuting anyone really over this, the worst is the recording industry is suing some of the biggest offenders and usually settling for a couple grand.

Nobody is going to jail.


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« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2004, 08:57:47 PM »
Cool thanks guys.

So what would you recomend? I used like I said Lime Wire. That seemed to be the fastest as far as getting MP3s.

Is there anything out there that maybe I dont know of?
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« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2004, 09:00:40 PM »
no it is illeagal in the US to Download or Upload... the facts of the internet make downloading much harder to track.

People offer many uploads from a given IP, which is proably accociated with your MAC, unless you spoof it...  

so the point is, your only downloading one thing at one time .... you can offer tons of uploads......



The US is calling it a crime to copy pattern's of 1's and 0's ....

Think about that alone for a second ... and think about REAL crime...



apparently this can be much worse than oh .. speeding, running red lights .. or you know crap that endagers peoples lives .. creates victims and such ....

At some point i hope the US realizes it's stupid and ludicrous to try to control information ..... we shouldn't have invented the computer if that is what we wanted.   And why is one pice of information more valuable than another ?   Copyright?  Just give it up .... if you don't want the world to have it don't publish it,

otherwise non-profit reproduction is basicly a human right ......  Big Brother sayign we can't use equipment to copy patterns? ..

What if we had looms and patterns on blankets?  Would it be illegal to copy someone elses loom pattern?  Liveing in a country of morons...

Canadian's don't have this problem to this degree... they seem to be able to adapt to technology ....  they consider it a 'private copy'....

maybe they don't let thier corporations keep them in the past?
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« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2004, 09:04:44 PM »
BTW, I wouldn't recommend keeping  a lot of downloaded files visibile to someone looking to see what you are sharing, that is the people they go after.
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« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2004, 09:13:46 PM »
yeah... When I get them I noramlly just toss them into an unshared folder. Either to sort through or just so like you said, no one knows what I am downloading.
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« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2004, 10:31:42 PM »
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yeah... When I get them I noramlly just toss them into an unshared folder. Either to sort through or just so like you said, no one knows what I am downloading.


kazza network is dead however if you have the install program it still works

http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=kazaalite


Bit Torrent works very well for apps,movies,tv shows etc.  Do a google search to find out where to download bittorrent, once you install it use this to search for stuff.  The higher the # of seeds the faster the download.


search.suprnova.org
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« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2004, 11:23:57 PM »
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........if I use P2P programs to download Mp3s?
 


Probably not, but hell is certainly a possibility. :)


It's okay though... all the cool people will be there.
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« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2004, 12:08:51 AM »
lol If i am going to hell it'll be for worse things than jacking songs.
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« Reply #11 on: June 03, 2004, 12:46:08 AM »
Using Imesh here, works pretty good :)
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« Reply #12 on: June 03, 2004, 01:42:05 AM »
Downloading MP3's is the least of your problems Morph.... You're going to jail for something else:p
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« Reply #13 on: June 03, 2004, 01:52:55 AM »
just about any criminal communication violation has to do with sending information not receiving.

I don't know of any prosecuted cases for file sharing (just civil judgments), but if they where they would go after those sharing first, much better chance of a conviction.
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« Reply #14 on: June 03, 2004, 02:02:07 AM »
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Using Imesh here, works pretty good :)


I used to like it to......just do a search with ad-aware and delete the 20+ files it finds ;)

still use kazaa lite, and nobody will mess with me here for dl either as long as you dont dl alot of child stuff.

Freedom :D
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