Best LEGAL download site

Norfork Nights · 18-03-2006 09:37PM #1

Im looking to download top 40 stuff on a weekly basis for something I'm doing.
I want to get onto a subscription service where you pay a few quid each month and you can download as much as you want.

Anyone got any idea's which is the best and has the most variety?
And more importently is available in Ireland!

Thanks

aidan_walsh · 18-03-2006 09:39PM

www.apple.com/itunes

Norfork Nights · 18-03-2006 09:43PM

do there offer a subscription service for ireland like napster ?

aidan_walsh · 18-03-2006 09:45PM

You buy on a per track\album basis.

Norfork Nights · 18-03-2006 09:51PM

na thats no use... i want a subscription service where i can download as much as I want a month for 25euro or something like that!

Rollo Tamasi · 19-03-2006 12:55AM

whats wrong with the illegal route?

djmarkus · 19-03-2006 12:59AM

i know an mp3 site which is legal in its country, but probably not here, is it allowed?

TCP/IP · 19-03-2006 01:02AM

http://www.allofmp3.com/

But check legality issues

the_syco · 19-03-2006 01:05AM

TCP/IP wrote:

http://www.allofmp3.com/

But check legality issues

Illegal/gray area. Its legal in Russia, as they have different copy-right laws to here.

Fighting Irish · 19-03-2006 01:06AM

TCP/IP wrote:

http://www.allofmp3.com/

But check legality issues

If i ever decided to download music legally i don't think i'd pick that site, i doubt very much its legit.

**Timbuk2** · 19-03-2006 01:08AM

I use allofmp3. I know its not 100% legal but all the downloads are fine on it, never had any viruses or anything with them. I would prefer to use them than use KaZaa and get my computer full with viruses

Besides their prices are riduclously cheap... 2c/mb

Norfork Nights · 19-03-2006 01:23AM

do u have to pay by cc ? is there any sites based in uk or ireland offering a subscription service ?

Norfork Nights · 19-03-2006 01:25AM

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

whats wrong with the illegal route?

Do I need to answer that ?

Thumper Long · 19-03-2006 01:37AM

Norfork Nights wrote:

Do I need to answer that ?

No, but I will, one of the old ladys friends was fined 3000 Eur for illegal downloading, although it wasn't her it was here two teenage daughters, still 3 grand is a fair old whack to have to pay, until i heard that i though they were scare stories, they had a very comprehensive list of the downloaded tracks and they had used a number of the most popular p2p clients, so it looks very much like illegal downloading has just become tooooooo much of a risk :eek:

Rollo Tamasi · 19-03-2006 02:00AM

so no harm done then, i would recommend the illegal route.

Fighting Irish · 19-03-2006 05:04AM

**Timbuk2** wrote:

I use allofmp3. I know its not 100% legal but all the downloads are fine on it, never had any viruses or anything with them. I would prefer to use them than use KaZaa and get my computer full with viruses

Besides their prices are riduclously cheap... 2c/mb

Maybe if you used kazza and didn't download .exe files :rolleyes:

Fighting Irish · 19-03-2006 05:05AM

Thumper Long wrote:

No, but I will, one of the old ladys friends was fined 3000 Eur for illegal downloading, although it wasn't her it was here two teenage daughters, still 3 grand is a fair old whack to have to pay, until i heard that i though they were scare stories, they had a very comprehensive list of the downloaded tracks and they had used a number of the most popular p2p clients, so it looks very much like illegal downloading has just become tooooooo much of a risk :eek:

Yes but i heard they target people who are uploading, people should set their P2P so when they download something it isn't being shared with other people

ball ox · 19-03-2006 05:38AM

Fighting Irish wrote:

Yes but i heard they target people who are uploading, people should set their P2P so when they download something it isn't being shared with other people

if people did that there would be no files to download...........

8T8 · 19-03-2006 10:51AM

Well legal wise Yahoo Music Unlimited are considered the best subscription service or so I hear but you cant get it in Ireland.

The only other one I know of is Napster.co.uk who also offer a sub service for £9.95 a month.

**Timbuk2** · 19-03-2006 02:35PM

Fighting Irish wrote:

Maybe if you used kazza and didn't download .exe files :rolleyes:

LOL!!!

Viruses can be contained in mp3 files as well. You do not need to download an exe or zip file to be flooded with viruses

Viruses can even be put into text files... Yes... believe it or not

I you want me to I can teach you how

RoyalMarine · 19-03-2006 02:45PM

very true about virus's in non exe files.
spent ages scouring a computer i was asked to fix for non recognised files.

took me ages and then i realised they were not all .exe and .zip files...
ended up deleting loads of music that wasnt "safe" and several otrher files etc.

even .dll files can have em.

Rollo Tamasi · 19-03-2006 03:23PM

jpegs and gifs can have them no aswell. Kind of scary to think that you could be surfing the internet, come across a site, it gets cached to your computer and bang you have a virus.

Khannie · 19-03-2006 03:50PM

Anything can contain a virus, but that's no use (from the virus creators perspective) unless the file is run / interpreted in some way.

hobie · 19-03-2006 05:58PM

The only other one I know of is Napster.co.uk who also offer a sub service for £9.95 a month

Are you sure about that? .... I downloaded Napster a few weeks ago and as soon as I tried to buy anything I was politely told "we don't service Ireland .... sorreeeeeeeeee!!!! "

Does anyone know where I can buy Treaty by Yothu Yindo (legally) ???

SeanW · 19-03-2006 06:04PM

you could try www.mycokemusic.com

they're the only ones other than ITunes AFAIK that serve Ireland.

Other than AllOfMp3 which are really great and semi-legal.

Still don't know why anyone in their right mind would want to buy stuff online.

Peteee · 19-03-2006 06:33PM

yahoo music has a subscription site. Not sure if its america only though

EDIT: Its america only

8T8 · 19-03-2006 07:35PM

hobie wrote:

Are you sure about that? .... I downloaded Napster a few weeks ago and as soon as I tried to buy anything I was politely told "we don't service Ireland .... sorreeeeeeeeee!!!! "

Does anyone know where I can buy Treaty by Yothu Yindo (legally) ???

I never used it myself I just assumed they would allow Irish customers, I guess not..

Mutant_Fruit · 19-03-2006 08:01PM

**Timbuk2** wrote:

Viruses can be contained in mp3 files as well

Nope, they can't. But viruses and suchlike can be linked to in windows media files and downloaded unsuspectingly by users trying to get a valid license to playback a "copyright protected file".

**Timbuk2** wrote:

Viruses can even be put into text files... Yes... believe it or not

Sure, they can, but they simply cannot do anything or damage anything unless the user is stupid enough to rename the file to .exe and then executes the file...

Fighting Irish · 19-03-2006 08:16PM

ball ox wrote:

if people did that there would be no files to download...........

let the stupid people share their files

Fighting Irish · 19-03-2006 08:17PM

**Timbuk2** wrote:

LOL!!!

Viruses can be contained in mp3 files as well. You do not need to download an exe or zip file to be flooded with viruses

Viruses can even be put into text files... Yes... believe it or not

I you want me to I can teach you how

No they can't(virus within an mp3), i have been downloading music(only .mp3s) from p2p for years and have never got a virus from them

**Timbuk2** · 19-03-2006 08:22PM

Generally, because you didn't get a virus doesn't mean its impossible

Viruses scripts can be downloaded as .mp3s, and if you have a program (virus) on your computer that will change the .mp3 format into some readable, execuatable file then that can cause a problem. The same applys for text files

Best LEGAL download site

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