Download's

SolidSnake

is there any good mp3 download site's i already know about winmx and kazaa is there anymore?

ilovehoovering

Soulseek is good. sometimes.

Karoma

i'm sure these links/suggestions will all be legal...

McGonagles

Originally posted by Karoma
i'm sure these links/suggestions will all be legal...

No point in suggesting illegal links here - we wouldn't want anyone
to lose their licence now ;-)

It really annoys me that "corporate interests" are hell bent on making
file formats like MP3 and technologies like Peer-To-Peer somehow
criminal, just because they can be used to violate copyright.
If Sony don't want people to illegally copy CD's onto MiniDisc, why
is the average MiniDisc 74 minutes long?

It's all just technology... Sony got taken to court by Disney when
they launched Betamax, but now the likes of Disney are making
more money from VHS and DVD rentals/sales than they are from
the celluloid movies that home video was supposed to kill.

And yes, folks, making a copy of a CD that you bought (so you don't have
to worry about it getting stolen from your vehicle or workplace) is illegal in
Ireland. Doesn't matter if the copy is a tape that never leaves your Walkman
(that never leaves your coat pocket), or if it's an el-cheapo CD-R, Irish
copyright law has no Fair Use provisions.

Every new technology results in "corporate interests" getting
scared, and not knowing what to do. The gramophone was going to
kill off the sheet music publishers, and home taping was going to be
"killing music" in the 1970's.

If you are a songwriter or performer, don't be afraid to rip and
encode your own work to MP3 (or Ogg or whatever) and put it online
so that everyone can hear it - that's not illegal!

Amz

Originally posted by McGonagles
No point in suggesting illegal links here - we wouldn't want anyone
to lose their licence now ;-)

It really annoys me that "corporate interests" are hell bent on making
file formats like MP3 and technologies like Peer-To-Peer somehow
criminal, just because they can be used to violate copyright.
If Sony don't want people to illegally copy CD's onto MiniDisc, why
is the average MiniDisc 74 minutes long?

It's all just technology... Sony got taken to court by Disney when
they launched Betamax, but now the likes of Disney are making
more money from VHS and DVD rentals/sales than they are from
the celluloid movies that home video was supposed to kill.

And yes, folks, making a copy of a CD that you bought (so you don't have
to worry about it getting stolen from your vehicle or workplace) is illegal in
Ireland. Doesn't matter if the copy is a tape that never leaves your Walkman
(that never leaves your coat pocket), or if it's an el-cheapo CD-R, Irish
copyright law has no Fair Use provisions.

Every new technology results in "corporate interests" getting
scared, and not knowing what to do. The gramophone was going to
kill off the sheet music publishers, and home taping was going to be
"killing music" in the 1970's.

If you are a songwriter or performer, don't be afraid to rip and
encode your own work to MP3 (or Ogg or whatever) and put it online
so that everyone can hear it - that's not illegal!

That's all very well and good but it is still illegal. So you've to be mindful of who will be reprimanded should for posting the links to these sites etc. on boards.

Everyone agreed to the rules of boards.ie before they registered (granted most of you probably didn't read 'em) but as far as I'm aware there is a prohibition on warez and warez/file sharing sites or some such.

Wouldn't want anyone getting banned now would we...

Smurfpiss

www.epitonic.com

kinda cool to look around in,has some real gems and its 100% legal.
(even has the full reindeer section album on streaming)

also www.soundweb.ie has the odd irish song you might like

oh and what im currently looking at, for all you radiohead fans is

http://www.treefi.com/radioheadbsides.php

oodles and oodles of b-sides oh my!

McGonagles

Originally posted by Amz
That's all very well and good but it is still illegal.

What "it" are you saying is illegal?
I mentioned a lot of things, some of which are, and some of which aren't...
...at least cut the quote down!

An artist putting up an MP3 of their demo for download is
NOT illegal, because it was uploaded with the permission of
(or even uploaded BY) the copyright owner. And permission
is being granted to the web surfing public to download it.

That's what has the major labels so scared - that artists are now
able to get their music heard around the world, without some git
in a ponytail telling them that they need to make their recordings
more "radio friendly", or leaving them to wait for the right time to
have the album released.

back to front

Why can't every band do what Irish rockers Blo.tooth have done and make all their songs free.

Visit this on-line album www.blotooth.com

Pure class!!


:cool: Yep.. the future's that bright!

Rockiemalt

Minidiscs are 74 minutes long becuase Beethhovens 9th symphony (i think, or some really famous classical piece) is in its fullness 74 minutes long and this ws judged by the person who made minidiscs to the the best music ever so he decided that minidiscs should be able to hold the whole lot of it in its entirity, hence minidiscs are 74 minutes long

Amz

Smart man