By bye Limewire

[GerryM]

Go get frostwire! Its way better than limewire!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BUT STILL, Buy Music

[dice]

Sure it was utter sh*t in many ways, but it was that last resort, alongside eMule, where you would find that one rare song nobody has and which isn't on torrents.

[Menaced]

I stopped using Limewire around a year ago. YouTube > Video2MP3 does it for me.

[The Killa]

its no big deal. limewire will die and some other new program will take over. sh*t I used to use kazaa back in the day before it had a lawsuit taken out against it.

nothing will "take it over". This is modern-day napster or kazaa, except this time nobody gives a sh*t because everyone and their grandma's use torrents. It's really not that hard to find music these days and anyone who still uses Limewire is 14 and stupid and has a filthy, filthy computer full of sh*t on it.

 

Everything is online these days and nobody buys anything anymore.. it's all a few clicks away off a torrent. That's just the way it is.

[Vanilla Shake]

My mother's gonna be pissed, as it was her source of downloading music. Oh well.

 

I just use uTorrent, or I'll just find what I want on Rapidshare or Megaupload.

[epoxi]

*epoxi waits for up-tight people to post about how this is an 'infringement of our human rights'*

[Jay]

everyone and their grandma's use torrents

Not exactly true, it's becoming much easier to use archive search engines for some things torrents don't cover. I know quite a few people that use that method exclusively.

[Punk-in-Drublic]

Limewire was sh*t anyway. My mate downloaded King Kong years ago and it tuned out to be an inter racial gay porno.

[flitcroft101]

everyone and their grandma's use torrents

Not exactly true, it's becoming much easier to use archive search engines for some things torrents don't cover. I know quite a few people that use that method exclusively.

I do this, usenet + torrent. Keeping a wide range on things is great

[AmyJones]

Limewire was sh*t anyway. My mate downloaded King Kong years ago and it tuned out to be an inter racial gay porno.

Thats what he told you![/i]

 

Whhhat? gay porn on my computer? dude! it was, uhh, I thought i downloaded short circuit...i swear to god bro!

 

 

Im just kidding jake.

[Rougarou]

 

One of my little cousins used it, with no protection whatsoever.

damn take him to the free clinic as soon as possible!

 

 

 

on topic: i gotta agree with most people in here limewire had its time now its gone oh well time to move on!

[Bernard Jazz]

How did Limewire create profits anyway? People with half a brain would use the free version to download the premium version.

[Claude Speed.]

Limewire was sh*t. I have found my torrent heaven (rutracker) which is the best of all.

[Mister Pink]

 

I always thought that, while money is important, the 'true' artists will do things for the love of the art.

 

When you start playing a guitar cause you wanna get paid, there's a problem.

 

it isn't supposed to be like a job

 

At least, in my eyes it isn't. I don't know how the industry works. But I hear that artists get, like, 10 cents of every CD purchase. Which is total bull, if true.

 

Anyway, you can't really fight it. It's futile. Utterly futile. This calls for a business model change!

 

Also; situations like this call for 'I wasn't going to buy it to begin with' arguments. cuz its true. I have never, ever bought an album. I really don't care that much about music anyway. I wouldn't have bought it to begin with, but since its there, I got it. I didn't 'f*ck over profits' cause I wasn't going to purchase to begin with.

 

Whatever. I'm getting so much of my music from sites like OCRemix (artists that play with their instruments because they really wanna make something cool) nowadays that it really doesn't affect me. I have 'In my Lifetime VOL. 1' to listen to, but I can't when A MEGAMAN X ARRANGEMENT ALBUM WILL BE COMING OUT SOON

Don't be such a hippie man Yes, people get in to the music industry for the wrong reasons but if you make a career decision to to work in the arts for a living you are taking a gamble. It's so hard. Unlike, going to study business and finding a job in some billions of industries. A majority of people going in to the music business are doing it because once it was or is their passion. Also, feeling strongly about th refusal to work 9-5, in a factory or some other unprosperous job or whatever.

 

I'm trying to make it in to photography and while it's my passion, I want to do it for money. I need money to survive. I need money for equipment, I need money to go on holidays etc. I don't just do it for the passion, maaan. I must not be a true artist then. I'm selling my soul to theatre companies and rock bands that want to promote themselves. Good photographers are usually well paid but there are so many out there. I'm not well paid. Maybe I'm not good enough but I'm doing hard work, networking, freebies and doing jobs to make it. I'll feel I only deserve nice pay it after the hard work I put in doing freebies and general extra work like networking, which is daily etc.

 

It's interesting you said those things in your post and then went on to say that you don't really care for music.

 

I don't think anyone would really pick up a guitar or camera cause they want to get paid. I think people are more intelligent than that. There are chancers out there most people pick these things up because they enjoy them. If you want to make a career out of it. Good for you. Just be honest and good at what you do. It's not dishonorable to want to get paid for your crafts.

 

That's not talking about record companies now. I'm just replying to EAB's first sentence.

 

Sorry for going off topic a little.

[Girish]

If this was 2 years ago, I would have freaked out. But it's been a really long time since I used LimeWire and frankly speaking, I don't need to. There are quite a few alternatives available out there to get my own music. Besides, I hardly ever download music in bulk. It's always one song at a time.

[Jesus'En'Hitler420]

 

Stealing music is fine, there's no going back now, it's part of the culture. The industry is only prolonging its suffering, by half-heartedly fighting it and also half-heartedly adapting to it. Musicians make their money from touring and endorsements anyway, so f*ck the record companies.

 

New music will always be made and the musicians who make it will get as rich as their talent or their luck allows.

I totally agree with this. Before I used to think it was a burden to musicians to sign contracts with these rats. Now I think it's actually more of a reward to be given money by a stupid production company like Time Warner to make a CD.

 

The whole stealing music thing I believe it should be up to the artist how much it costs. To me, my music is hardly worth anything in dollars to me. If I got the chance to sell my stuff, I'd probably sell it for one dollar for a whole 45 minute CD. Extra cash is just... always nice. The only people I think to ever feel bad about in all this downloading music for free hoopla is the studio musicians who help to add more dimension to the music we love and the sound engineers who help to balance the mix to perfection.

Edited October 28, 2010 by Jesus'En'Hitler420

[epoxi]

 

How did Limewire create profits anyway? People with half a brain would use the free version to download the premium version.

People with half a brain know not to download "Limewire_Premium_full_version_download.exe (243KB)"

 

 

If I got the chance to sell my stuff, I'd probably sell it for one dollar for a whole 45 minute CD. Extra cash is just... always nice.

 

That's probably what artists do get. Making a CD also involves: cut for your manager, recording fees, production costs, legal fees, licensing, promotion costs, manufacturing, distribution, management skimming some off the top and after all this, the shop selling it still generally makes at least 50% profit on the CD.

Edited October 28, 2010 by epoxi

[Moonshield]

uTorrent meets my legal filesharing needs. I'm a very satisfied customer.

Yep. That and captaincrawl.

[E.A.B.]

 

It's interesting you said those things in your post and then went on to say that you don't really care for music.

ouch. I FELT that.

 

You know, I can't really argue against anything of what you said. You're more in-tune with the whole thing than I ever will be.

 

I mean, I guess what I said still applies to people that do it as a hobby. Still...

 

 

It's not dishonorable to want to get paid for your crafts

 

And you know what? You're 100% correct. I'm sure there are people even in your profession that disagree, but I can't find any strong counter-argument that I would truly agree with. I still think that it's the love of the craft that truly matters, but yes, getting paid isn't bad at all.

 

Well, at least my second to last paragraph still can't be refuted

[Pac.]

Any other good sites, ones that can't get past anti-virus programs.

[mr.easy]

I didn't think people still gave a sh*t about limewire. Nowadays, I get all my music from beemp3 and torrent sites. So no big loss here.

[johnny_zoo]

How did Limewire create profits anyway? People with half a brain would use the free version to download the premium version.

People with half a brain know not to download "Limewire_Premium_full_version_download.exe (243KB)"

People with half a brain would just use warez.

 

Tbh I didnt know people still used file sharing programs I just use warez/rapidshare as they dont come with the risk of spyware. I also heard torrents are easily tracked when downloading copyrighted material. Not sure if thats true.

[ass reamer]

I don't think I've used Limewire since 2004. Between Mediafire, Rapidshare, Megaupload etc. you can find virtually any album you've ever wanted, even relatively unknown sh*t.

 

Trying to download albums on Limwire was such a pain in the ass. I remember wasting a lot of time searching for each individual song.

[_Rob_]

Vuze, torrents for nice legal file sharing

[Vercetti27]

I transfer youtube music to mp3 anyway. much easier than limewire

[Andyzoot]

So...am I the only one who actually buys music?

[Pac.]

Vuze, torrents for nice legal file sharing

Chears

[nlitement]

 

How did Limewire create profits anyway? People with half a brain would use the free version to download the premium version.

People with half a brain know not to download "Limewire_Premium_full_version_download.exe (243KB)"

People with half a brain would just use warez.

 

Tbh I didnt know people still used file sharing programs I just use warez/rapidshare as they dont come with the risk of spyware. I also heard torrents are easily tracked when downloading copyrighted material. Not sure if thats true.

Waait. What do you mean by "warez"? You mean scene releases only? Depending on what you listen to, or how hifi you want to go, you might not get that limited edition vinyl print in FLAC format of a mega obscure artist, from the scene, which I for example sometimes want to have.

[matthew1g]

@ nlitement; Warez forums and rapidshare+hotfile+Filesonic premium accounts = Major win. You'll find whatever you need. Music will be properly tagged and with a little searching 85% of the music you want can be had in FLA, heck I even managed to get my hands on 5.1 super audio CDs some time ago.

[Weirdo.]

 

its no big deal. limewire will die and some other new program will take over. sh*t I used to use kazaa back in the day before it had a lawsuit taken out against it.

My family had to pay over 1,000 bucks after my sister got in trouble for using it a while back. Anyhow, I don't use file-sharing programs; I just go for the more traditional method of Googling, "*band name* - *song name* mp3". Then I use a third-party program to get it onto my iPod, such as this one.