LimeWire file-sharing service shut down by US court - Page 2

flappist · 27-10-2010, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by DAZZLER351

Whaaa?
How is that true ??
The ARTISTS barely see any return compared to the Label Company..

The little ones don't but the big players e.g. Metalica make gazillions...

Road Games · 27-10-2010, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by flappist

The little ones don't but the big players e.g. Metalica make gazillions...

Ohhh yes i see now ......

Adzter · 27-10-2010, 10:12 PM

Limewire is still operational. You can still download from it. Im doing so right now!

GT0132 · 27-10-2010, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by flappist

The little ones don't but the big players e.g. Metalica make gazillions...

Most of the money made by the musicians themselves is from concert tours and unless you have songwriting credits you get bugger all from recording

Road Games · 27-10-2010, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by GT0132

Most of the money made by the musicians themselves is from concert tours and unless you have songwriting credits you get bugger all from recording

No no no im just agreeing from now on ......

MexicanBatman · 27-10-2010, 10:48 PM

i have invites to ipt if someone wants to trade for invite to another site

Riksta · 27-10-2010, 10:48 PM

WinMX was awesome back in about 2001 until that went bye bye.

Been using Frostwire to get the odd hard to find MP3, but I mainly buy my cd's ;)

buggo · 27-10-2010, 10:56 PM

I havn't used Limewire since I started buying CDs when I got a job, however it was a good way to 'try out' a band. I'd download a couple, if I liked them download another couple, then if I liked them I'd go out and invest in the band by buying one of their Albums, if thats good, some more albums. If there all good, I'll see them live and buy merch.
This has happened for quite a few bands i like, spending $100's on a band started from one downloaded song.

fmc351 · 27-10-2010, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by buggo_gt

I havn't used Limewire since I started buying CDs when I got a job, however it was a good way to 'try out' a band. I'd download a couple, if I liked them download another couple, then if I liked them I'd go out and invest in the band by buying one of their Albums, if thats good, some more albums. If there all good, I'll see them live and buy merch.
This has happened for quite a few bands i like, spending $100's on a band started from one downloaded song.

I say I do that too. Truthfully though, its "lets not and just say we did".

Mad Maxine · 27-10-2010, 11:40 PM

You will all appreciate this very amusing and witty song by Weird Al then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qscad...eature=related

Shazz

HLC · 27-10-2010, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by GT0132

Most of the money made by the musicians themselves is from concert tours and unless you have songwriting credits you get bugger all from recording

yeah but if metallica just saw $1 from every cd sold...

they still sell on average, 1 million copies of the black album every year.

Road Games · 28-10-2010, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by HLC

yeah but if metallica just saw $1 from every cd sold...

they still sell on average, 1 million copies of the black album every year.

Ummm i better give up singin Country then .....

HI PSI · 28-10-2010, 12:29 AM

I have heaps of Demonoid invites .. Let me know if you want one... It is not one that I use very often....... Not as fast as others, but it does have Major content....

Road Games · 28-10-2010, 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by HI PSI

I have heaps of Demonoid invites .. Let me know if you want one... It is not one that I use very often....... Not as fast as others, but it does have Major content....

OK a PM is fine ... but seriously how do these work ??
Daz..x..

4bbl · 28-10-2010, 01:57 PM

my limewire has stopped working now.

ch33z1l · 28-10-2010, 02:15 PM

I usually grab a few featured artists songs from triple j unearthed. Recently, I have started buying albums again. I use Ares Galaxy for the odd stuff

grandpa_spec_F6 · 28-10-2010, 02:17 PM

I actually had to do an assignment on this for Uni not long ago (some may have seen me complaining about it).

To give you all a better idea, the link below contains a full breakdown on who gets the majority share, the estimated impact music piracy and film piracy has on the industry etc: http://www.clickitticket.com/MoneyMusicandPiracy.asp

The number 1 downloaded song just depresses me for some reason

fmc351 · 28-10-2010, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by DAZZLER351

OK a PM is fine ... but seriously how do these work ??
Daz..x..

Demonoid? or P2P in general?

P2P
People in various ways hack or manipulate software and load it as a .torrent file to the server. The app/music/video they are seeding stays on their machine, only the information file (.torrent) is upped to a server. You download said .torrent file in to a torrent program such as uTorrent which then downloads portions of said software from the various seeds and peers machines until you have 100% of it. Seeds being those that have downloaded 100% of the app, Peers being those still in the process, obviously in the beginning there is only one seed, eventually peers become seeds. You keep seeding once completed until your ratio on that torrent reaches at least 1 to maintain your share ratio, dl/ul. The ideal situation is when you try to keep you ratio above 1. You can seed multiple apps youve downloaded, thus if one isnt beeing dl'ed by others and the ratio stays below 1, the shortfall can be made up by other apps youre seeding by going well over a ratio of 1 on those other torrents. Obviosly you need to leave your machine on, your internet connection open, and the torrent program running, to both download, and seed.

Demonoid is good, but be aware there are many virus/trojans and other problems, as with any P2P, but being a moderated site, if you stick to fairly well seeded and dl'ed torrents, you should be fine. Always scan them once dl'ed, and open them first off in "sandboxie". However well seeded torrents make it harder to reseed.

Be aware of false positives too. Antivirus gear look for portions of code that are known virus code, but are sometimes also good code, and many keygens give off red flags. Keygens being the method some use to get full access to hacked apps. Without the keygen, the app wont run.

XlR8TED · 28-10-2010, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by flappist

The little ones don't but the big players e.g. Metalica make gazillions...

Money good!

Napster Bad!

Silversurfer · 28-10-2010, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by XlR8TED

Limewire was horrible in any case. Full of malicious software.

Use a torrent. They'll never be able to shut those down.

yes totally agree that it was crap , but it kept me busy fixing dufuses pc's for $$$$$$

HI PSI · 28-10-2010, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by DAZZLER351

OK a PM is fine ... but seriously how do these work ??
Daz..x..

Torrenting is similar to P2p in many ways. The only real difference here is that you use a different client... Which is still similar in many ways.

The main difference is that you search for the Files on a website (Torrent site). You can simply search for the file name, genere, type and depending on the query will show the results...

D/click on the desired file, this opens the torrent which will show the name, description, codec, size etc.

Click on "Click here to download the torrent" and a new client window will appear asking you to select either "Open, save or Cancel". Select open and a window will appear showing all files in the download. Untick unwanted files (Samples) etc... Then click ok.......

Wallaahhh. You have just succesfully started your first torrent download...

HI PSI · 28-10-2010, 10:54 PM

Utorrent is the best client. It will need very little work to set it up correctly.. If you are still interested.. Send me you email address....

Road Games · 28-10-2010, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fmc351

Demonoid? or P2P in general?

P2P
People in various ways hack or manipulate software and load it as a .torrent file to the server. The app/music/video they are seeding stays on their machine, only the information file (.torrent) is upped to a server. You download said .torrent file in to a torrent program such as uTorrent which then downloads portions of said software from the various seeds and peers machines until you have 100% of it. Seeds being those that have downloaded 100% of the app, Peers being those still in the process, obviously in the beginning there is only one seed, eventually peers become seeds. You keep seeding once completed until your ratio on that torrent reaches at least 1 to maintain your share ratio, dl/ul. The ideal situation is when you try to keep you ratio above 1. You can seed multiple apps youve downloaded, thus if one isnt beeing dl'ed by others and the ratio stays below 1, the shortfall can be made up by other apps youre seeding by going well over a ratio of 1 on those other torrents. Obviosly you need to leave your machine on, your internet connection open, and the torrent program running, to both download, and seed.

Demonoid is good, but be aware there are many virus/trojans and other problems, as with any P2P, but being a moderated site, if you stick to fairly well seeded and dl'ed torrents, you should be fine. Always scan them once dl'ed, and open them first off in "sandboxie". However well seeded torrents make it harder to reseed.

Be aware of false positives too. Antivirus gear look for portions of code that are known virus code, but are sometimes also good code, and many keygens give off red flags. Keygens being the method some use to get full access to hacked apps. Without the keygen, the app wont run.

Wow thanks for that ..

Road Games · 28-10-2010, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by HI PSI

Torrenting is similar to P2p in many ways. The only real difference here is that you use a different client... Which is still similar in many ways.

The main difference is that you search for the Files on a website (Torrent site). You can simply search for the file name, genere, type and depending on the query will show the results...

D/click on the desired file, this opens the torrent which will show the name, description, codec, size etc.

Click on "Click here to download the torrent" and a new client window will appear asking you to select either "Open, save or Cancel". Select open and a window will appear showing all files in the download. Untick unwanted files (Samples) etc... Then click ok.......

Wallaahhh. You have just succesfully started your first torrent download...

Much appreciated i will be in contact soon

Franco Cozzo · 29-10-2010, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Brendo_BAXR8

Frost wire is the new lime wire if your not into torrents.

www.frostwire.com

Frostwire has the capability to do torrents as well.

Personally I use a program called "Vuze" and either Isohunt or Demonoid for my torrents.

kyro_02 · 30-10-2010, 06:46 PM

you can actually download good quality song off youtube in .mp3 format for free.. limewire, used years ago, never liked it personally

TheInterceptor · 30-10-2010, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by kyro_02

you can actually download good quality song off youtube in .mp3 format for free.. limewire, used years ago, never liked it personally

DVDvideosoft is an excellent program for this, free download off the net, can pick up to 320kbps bitrate. Great for getting that song youve always wanted that you cant find anywhere else.

FGII-XR6 · 30-10-2010, 08:44 PM

about time this virus was eradicated I have lost count of jobs I have done where serious system performance degradation was a result of limewire being installed

TheInterceptor · 30-10-2010, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by au3xr6

... serious system performance degradation was a result of limewire being installed

Oh now that explains why my desktop pc has gone to buggery...

FGII-XR6 · 30-10-2010, 11:46 PM

I have found the only way to restore performance after limewire is a format and reinstall the usual malware tools help a bit but I find performance still lacking I actually saves time starting from scratch with better results

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Originally Posted by TheInterceptor

Oh now that explains why my desktop pc has gone to buggery...