Downloading music

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<p>Hi all. What's a good and cheaper alternative to itunes?</p>

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<p>google (10 char)</p>

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<p>When you say "cheaper", do you mean a pay service or a way to get songs for free?</p>

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<p>legal but cheaper than itunes</p>

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<p>WalMart downloads are $.88 a song, I think.</p>

<p>It's a little cheaper...</p>

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<p>Try Ruckus (<a href="http://www.ruckus.com)%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.ruckus.com)&lt;/a>. It's free to all college students with a .edu e-mail address. Features and restrictions include:</p>

<p>Pricing: Free to all students with a valid .edu email address. $8.99/month for alumni and college faculty.
Platform(s): Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista only.
Downloading: Yes.
Burning/Copying: No.<br>
Streaming: Streaming video content on Ruckus TV. No streaming music content.
Format: Protected Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV) format.
Digital restrictions: No burning to compact discs. Limited player support. Files contain embedded licenses that must be renewed periodically.
Catalog: Roughly 2.8 million files.</p>

<p>Considering it's free and legal it's not that bad. Files are copy protected so you can't transfer them to iPods, but it's still good for listening to music on your computer.</p>

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<p>I have an ipod and want to have music on it. I'm not very good with proxies/firewall so I guess I don't want to be kicked out for pirating music. Are there any website cheaper than walmart?</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.mp3search.ru/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.mp3search.ru/&lt;/a> is pretty cheap.</p>

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<p>oh wow. 19 cents a song?? do you know if this site is legal or not?</p>

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<p>It's legal:

[quote]
<br>
Cooperation between MP3Search.ru and Copyright Holders:</p>

<p>All phonograms on MP3Search.ru are placed in accordance with license issued by:</p>

<p>Noncommercial Partnership "Federation of Authors and Rightsholders for Collective Management of Copyright in Interactive Regime" further "FAIR".</p>

<p>Please note:</p>

<pre><code>* MP3Search.ru has made a decision on 17th November 2006 and according to it pays 50% of it's sales volume, minus taxes, to FAIR.
* FAIR represents the majority of right-holders in Russia and acts strictly in accordance with Russian and International copyright legislation.
* Both FAIR and MP3Search.ru are subjects of annual audit performed by professional, reputable and independent auditors.
</code></pre>

<p>You can find more details on FAIR and Russian copyright legislation (including a legal English copy of the law) at <a href="http://www.fairlaw.ru%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.fairlaw.ru&lt;/a>

[/quote]
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<p>usenet
irc
direct download</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.amiestreet.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.amiestreet.com&lt;/a> is one i like.</p>

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<p>downloading music for free is NOT ILLEGAL</p>

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<p>^^ ummm, is killing people illegal?</p>

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<p>PK and firefox I disagree with both of you. If you could download music it would be illegal. But it is impossible to transfer music over a connection.</p>

<p>"Music" downloads are not actually music downloads at all. In fact they are bytes arranged together in Hexadecimal code that in the end can be read by a program that will play this file over your speakers. Who says transferring bytes made up of a-z and 0-9 is illegal?</p>

<p>I'm not saying I condone these transfers, just offering a different perspective.</p>

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<p>A good thing to try is Yahoo Unlimited. For $8 a month ($6 if you pay annually) you have unlimited access to a database that can be instantly streamed to your computer or downloaded to be played on your computer and I believe one mp3 player (it has some strict Digital Rights Management). I have a friend who uses the service and it's really good. Awesome song selection. Even new CD's are posted on there on release most of the time.</p>

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<p>i know a lot of colleges dont allow students to use programs such as limewire because they say it slows down the whole system
ruckus sounds good</p>

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<p>^^ how did the university catch you using certain programs? care to elaborate?</p>

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<p>^ well when you use a university network, the university can technically monitor traffic/view what type of traffic is going to what IP address, etc</p>

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<p>Limewire???</p>

<p>lol</p>

<p>Would you get caught if you use limewire at college on its wireless network?</p>