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Date Posted: 04:08:06 12/13/06 Wed
Author: cyber_damsel
Author Host/IP: dvpp-p-144-134-97-10.prem.tmns.net.au / 144.134.97.10
Subject: Re: mp3 downloading for free
In reply to: ben 's message, "Re: mp3 downloading for free" on 18:40:49 01/26/06 Thu

Lime wire and emp3s.com are good too!

>no ifs, ands, or buts... eh?.
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>broad answer, nothing is free there is always some
>costs and risks...
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>old "napster" was sort of free is ya discount your
>time and broadband connection costs, if if the
>knuckleheads at the RIAA traced your IP address they
>would try and shake ya down and make an example of ya.
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>"Gnutella" tried to do away with the central servers,
>but I've seen that it is possible to trace files,
>takes a bit more work but its possible.
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>BitTorrent, is pretty interesting but its power
>requires a bit more knowledge to set up.
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>bottom line, try looking at:
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>http://www.zeropaid.com/
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>to see what works for you (there is no one size fits
>all answer). Ya might find that the stuff on line
>isn't the highest quality (i.e. an MP3 file at 128
>kbps sucks on high end equipment, and ya might want
>high quality AIFF files, but the downside is really
>huge file sizes). One suggestion if ya collect music
>files stay away from any format with any DRM, because
>any standard that tries to control a user will
>eventually be broken and updated standards will be put
>in its place and there exists the danger that when
>software gets updated ya might have a bunch of files
>that are useless.... MP3 might be an old format but if
>ya collect files encoded stuff at 256 kbps or better
>its going to work and sound pretty good on any
>hardware/software combo for many many years.
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>>I want to know how to access unlimited free music no
>>ifs, ands, or buts.

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