Have you ever downloade any songs? When napster was free I downloaded around 300,then Kazas came out I had a few. Any one done it,also I made some CD'S. I was going to do some movies,but you have to pay for it,or it takes so long to download movies, where or if you do get your download movies??

Asking me if I ever downloaded songs is like asking the sun if it shines; no doubt about it. In the era of first generation Napster, all I ever did when connected to the internet was download music, mp3s into the thousands. I miss those days. It wasn't just Napster, there was also audiogalaxy, bearshare, aimster, as well as kazaa, I used them all. I barely download since the riaa lawsuits, but I still use winmx. I've used buymusic.com for some legal downloading. Haven't tried Itunes or the new napster yet

I don't download music and videos from Kazaa, because the RIAA might get sued. I go to my next thing is recording music from records, tapes, etc. on my hard drive and burn it on a CD so that I can put it on my IPod.

I have downloaded a lot of music on Kazaa but I don't much anymore. It slows my computer way down and I can't surf the net because it takes forever to load a webpage. But if there is a song that I really want I will use Kazaa. I have never downloaded any movies or tv shows. It would take forever on my computer!:(

First thing I did when I got a computer was connect to KAZAA. I used to download everyday, and had thousands of songs. I would download alot of music videos too, no movies. I really miss it, RIAA has me too scared to do it anymore.

Doesn't Best Buy offer gift cards from Napster? Anybody know about this?

How are the pay to download sites? Do you get alot of songs??

I use Ares to download music but I really don't do it that much anymore.

What I liked about all the file sharing programs I used when I illegally :eek: downloaded music was that I found stuff that I knew I wouldn't find just from walking into a record store. I always downloaded some obscure stuff I liked years earlier that I never got around to buying. If I do a search for these same songs on one of the pay services, nothing turns up. they still have a long way to go when it comes to satisfactory selection of songs available.

Originally posted by vashti1999
What I liked about all the file sharing programs I used when I illegally :eek: downloaded music was that I found stuff that I knew I wouldn't find just from walking into a record store. I always downloaded some obscure stuff I liked years earlier that I never got around to buying. If I do a search for these same songs on one of the pay services, nothing turns up. they still have a long way to go when it comes to satisfactory selection of songs available. Exactly. I did a speech on why it should be legal to download music for free and that was one of my points. There's stuff avaliable online that you can't buy in stores.

Originally posted by vashti1999
aimster

oh man, I used to use Aimster! I LOVED it... until someone bought it and ruined it.

I use Soulsleek now. It's not half bad.

Originally posted by vashti1999
What I liked about all the file sharing programs I used when I illegally :eek: downloaded music was that I found stuff that I knew I wouldn't find just from walking into a record store. I always downloaded some obscure stuff I liked years earlier that I never got around to buying. If I do a search for these same songs on one of the pay services, nothing turns up. they still have a long way to go when it comes to satisfactory selection of songs available.

Exactly! I would find songs that I thought could not be found. That is one of the reasons why I have not subscribed to a pay service, because I know it would be so inadequate and a waste of money.

I don't burn CDs anymore I just put them on my Dell MP3 player. Holds 7,000 songs I love it :D

This was in my local paper today:

OFFICIALS CRACK DOWN ON PIRACY
Task force nets $180,000 worth of alleged illegal CDs

Baldwin Park, CA - A regional high-tech task force seized about 100 "stampers" capable of producing thousands of CD's along with 12,000 pirated music CD's worth $180,000 from a local business Tuesday.

The stampers pose a potential loss of millions to the recording industry through illegal copying of CD's investigators said.

The 12,000 confiscated CD's included a compilation of 1960's song and Latino songs. The bulk of the CD's featured Latino singers such as Hector Acosta and Pablo Bachata.

No one was arrested.

The seizure was the result of a three-month investigation, according to the sheriff's Lt. Rick Craigo of the Southern California High Tech Task Force.

About 30 members of the task force served the search warrant Tuesday morning at Media Tek Optical Inc. at 13450 Brooks Drive, which is an industrial area.

The stampers were allegedly fed into an optical disc relicator to make the CD's. There were other machines at the site, allegedly for the illegal production of CD's and DVD's.

"They make the actual CD's here," said Tony Rosario regional investigator for the Recording Industry Association of America. The company allegedly sends the CD's to another place to be shrink wrapped, he said.

"We know (the music discs) are illegal because the artists signed on our companies are appearing on labels that are non-existent," said Chuck Hausman regional anti-piracy attorney for th Recording Industry Association of America.

Illegally produced CD's can sell for up to $15, Hausman said.

The industry estimates it loses over $3 million a year domestically to piracy, Hausman said. That figure doesn't take into account music downloaded on the Internet.

There also was a picture with the police wearing RIAA vests.