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Where do You FileShare/Download?

I thought everyone would hit this?

I've heard about e-donkey or e-mule
tried winMX a while back.
what else is out there?

more important, what's good?
 
i was using kazza but have stopped for a while as in austrila the feds have been raiding isps and getting everyones names who have been downloading mp3s for some court case.
so much or freeom of information
 
Freedom of information? You think it should be a right to download things illegally?

Nobody replied because the forum management frowns on discussions of illegal activity, or even discussions that might come close. A discussion about this would eventually degenerate and be locked.
 
sorry bout dat. but there is legall file sharing over these networks you know.

kazaa has it's gold file program. you download the file for introductory period, if you like you buy, if not you lose the file after six mo's or so.

I wonder if there's any news about that court case?

I got sued by metallica over the napster thing.
they took my rights to ever use napster and said if i wanted to fight it i could go to court and possibly be fined $500,000.

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Whether you think file sharing is okay or not isn't the point. The forum management simply frowns upon discussions of it most of the time, and they have the right to stop such discussions, and do so frequently. You can't possibly believe that there is enough legal activity on Kazaa to justify its continued existence despite the illegal activity.
 
This is an article from the Australian newspaper


Telstra raided in MP3 probe
Simon Hayes
March 06, 2003

FEDERAL police have executed search warrants on Telstra and internet company Eftel in one of Australia's largest investigations into alleged music piracy, which could be worth up to $60 million.

Warrants were also executed at several other un-named internet service providers, with more warrants possible as the investigation continues.

It's understood the police were seeking information about the identities of particular subscribers, as well as music files that may have been stored by them on servers.

According to sources, the wholesale value of the allegedly pirated music may be as high as $60 million - making it one of Australia's largest copyright infringement investigations.

A police spokeswoman confirmed that officers, accompanied by computer forensics experts, visited a Telstra facility in Melbourne and Eftel's Perth offices, as part of ongoing investigations.

Search warrants were also executed at several other ISPs, which she declined to name.

She said the execution of these warrants was part of "related investigations".

The Australian understands that the investigations are at an early stage, and that more ISPs may yet be searched.

Simon Ehrenfeld, the chief executive of Eftel parent company Datafast Telecommunications, said the company had co-operated with police, and had provided information relating to a subscriber. The ISP had also closed the subscriber's website.

"We are a large ISP, and we get police in frequently with warrants asking for information relating to the activities of particular subscribers," he said.

A Telstra spokesman confirmed a police search had been undertaken, but said "these things happen all the time".Eftel has about 50,000 subscribers. Telstra has about 1.4 million.

The investigation comes as the music industry lines up against alleged pirates at some of Australia's top universities.

In an unrelated matter, music labels Sony, EMI and Universal have taken the University of Sydney, the University of Tasmania and the University of Melbourne to the Federal Court in an effort to secure information about alleged piracy.

The three universities have agreed to preserve possible evidence, but they're expected to fight any attempt to get them to hand this over when the case resumes later this month.

Overseas, the recording industry is suing Australian-run file-sharing network Kazaa, which allows users to swap music files stored on their personal computers.

The Australian


 
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