edonkey is dead! Now where the hell do I steal stuff from?

[High Lord Tolkien]

www.edonkey.com/

The eDonkey2000 Network is no longer available.

If you steal music or movies, you are breaking the law.

Courts around the world -- including the United States Supreme Court --
have ruled that businesses and individuals can be prosecuted for illegal
downloading.

You are not anonymous when you illegally download copyrighted material.



Respect the music, download legally.


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Bastards!
Expecting me to pay!

But seriously, finding music off of edonkey has led me to purchase so much more music than I otherwise ever would have.

I'm working with emule now but it's not as easy as edonkey.
Anyone have any suggestions?

[I'm Murrin]

There will soon be free, legal music download services. For example, Universal Records is releasing their entire catalogue online for free. (It won't be compatible with iPods, which is great news.)

[Warmark]

I'm using Limewire just now, very easy to use.

[Nav]

My housemate uses Limewire. It automatically shares his porn collection with anybody on our network who uses iTunes. I feel I should tell him about it, but how do you start a conversation like that?

[Infelice]

My housemate uses Limewire. It automatically shares his porn collection with anybody on our network who uses iTunes. I feel I should tell him about it, but how do you start a conversation like that?

.... "You know that porn collection of yours......"

[balon!]

Yeah, the real trick to downlaoding like that is to turn of sharing. If you dont share, just download, its way harder for anyone to pin you. You just say you've been ripping songs

[Hound Of Chulainn]

The Universal service looks to be a dud.

- There's a ninety second ad per listen.
- They use Microsoft copy protection, which means no burning.

There's way to many caveats for this to be anything but a try-before-you-buy service.

(If I figure out where I read that, I'll post a link).

[I'm Murrin]

Actually, they're supposed to be limiting the number of times you can burn it to a disc, not stopping you completely. Doesn't matter much, though - most people would put downloaded music on an mp3 player. And one thing I'm very happy about is that they won't support iPod, which might help to lessen Apple's deathgrip on the portable music player industry.

[Hound Of Chulainn]

I certainly applaud any attempt to undermine a company that isn't used to competition (not that I think that it'll be anything more than an annoyance to Apple), but I just don't think that this'll make much of a dent, either in Apple or File Sharing as a concept. Peer to peer networks are the intended losers in this escapade, but established users aren't going to be swayed, and people new to downloading will want something that's more accessible. Advertising is easy to ignore until it becomes invasive and detracts from the pleasure or enjoyment of what it's supposed to facilitate.