The Denver Post wrote a strange article about music downloads this week. We had to check the date to see if it was from 1998, but actually, it was January 13, 2008. The headline read, “Serious music downloaders ditch dial-up for faster connections.”
Sorry. Dial-up? Serious music downloaders? Does anybody serous about anything still use dial-up? Apparently, people who are serious about downloading music are “shifting to faster Wi-Fi, DSL and cable modem Internet connections.” Welcome to last year, Denver Post.
The Denver Post even goes into detail as to why dial-up sucks for music download. Well, duh, it’s ‘cos it’s really slow. You don’t need to produce a bunch of technical jargon to prove that. We’re starting to wonder what other newspapers are behind the times when it comes to music downloads.
We’ve decided to help the Denver Post and list are top five favorite ways to download music. These are what all the call kids are using, DP, check them out:
If you need any more help, DP, drop us a line!
It could be time up for the operator of The Pirate Bay, the Swedish torrent-indexing website. The website has been consistently attack by anti-piracy groups, but thus far, its Swedish operators have managed to avoid being locked down for good and prosecuted. That could all be about to change, as authorities are saying they are confident that the torrent-indexing website will be brought to justice by the end of January.
Authorities in Sweden have been under constant pressure to close down The Pirate Bay, which offers access to thousands of torrent with which users are able to then download the latest music, movies, TV shows, and so on.
BitTorrent is an incredibly popular medium that people use to download music. The Pirate Bay is at the forefront of the BitTorrent community. Despite being raided and suffering a few hiccups in the past, the website has always managed to bounce back, experiencing great publicity in the process.
The operators of The Pirate Bay are adamant that they are not guilty of anything because they only index files without actually hosting them. There are those who say that The Pirate Bay is guilty of conspiracy to breach copyrights.
In the current climate, with so many people unsure of where they stand on the issue of piracy, the operators of The Pirate Bay could be made examples of. This is uncertain territory and nobody is really sure what to do. BitTorrent is huge and there is evidently no way to completely stop it.
Judgment Day is looming The Pirate Bay. BitTorrent, on the other hand, is safe.
Limewire remains consistently one of the most popular filesharing services available. Recent reports stated that Limewire is installed on over a third of all the world’s PCs. These figures turned out to be mistaken and the correct figure is somewhere around 18%. Despite being significantly lower, that’s still an enormous number of computers that Limewire is found on.
2007 was a great year for Limewire — the service is still here and it’s still rocking. 2008 looks set to be even better. Not only will Limewire users soon have the Limewire store, but they will also have Limespot, a kind of social networking service that will bring artists together with music fans.
When using the filesharing service, searches will also bring up links for people to see photos, tour dates, lyrics, watch music videos, buy music, and so on. Limewire is looking set to become the ultimate music resource, not just for music downloads, but for everything. We’re thrilled that things are going to well for Limewire.
Less then 24 hours ago, iphone has been jail broken one more time, with little help from Natetrue and company. Now a few of the cool features of this release is that you can do what is called pagination . However, this release came after much deliberation , the hacking community wanted to release the version 1.1.3 after the SDK (software development kit) that Apple is due to introduce in middle of Feb ‘08. The reason being that Apple might cook a patch to block the hack, but for some reason, I believe impatience got the better of the hackers community, the Windows version was released this morning. This however works with iBrickr needs to be downloaded , which will guide you through an easy installation process.
New Features:
Language Compatibility: Iphone has gone multi-lingual on this version.
Voice Dialing: The much awaited Voice dialing is now available, also if you want an icon for Speed dial, its available also, without having to jailbreak.
You can sing along now, yes lyrics is possible with your music.
Chapter Option, another update in this 1.1.3 version is, if you press and hold the icon’s a couple of seconds until the icons start wiggling, you then move around and customize your icon settings. Multiple SMS messaging option now available, However cut and paste feature is not confirmed which many feel a necessary function, maybe on the iphone 1.1.4 firmware update or something. Google Maps has some added features in this release to help you locate yourself using GPS triangulation technology.
Your iphone 1.1.3 update also has an Hybrid version of Google maps.This first got reported in Andrews blog on December 30th 07 and it was not confirmed until recently.
When it comes to choosing which filesharing service is right for you, there are a range of options at your disposal. The trouble is that for every decent filesharing service, there will be a bunch that don’t live up to expectations. One of the newest filesharing services for music downloads is Omemo, although the service is still so new that it’s difficult to assess how good it is.
Ares is a more established resource for music downloads. Ares is open source and has been around for several years. Being open source means that people are constantly making changes and improvements to the music-download facilities.
Ares users have access to well over 100 million tracks. The easy-to-use interface means that searching for music downloads is a piece of cake and can be done in seconds. Filesharing is one of the primary ways in which people get the music they want. If you haven’t already started using a program like Ares, you’re behind the times.
You can get Ares on a free download. It currently rates as one of the best filesharing services around for music downloads.
Jammie Thomas, who has been dubbed “the world’s dumbest filesharer”, is still making headlines as we move into the New Year. Jammie Thomas was the first person to take a filesharing case to court. She got stung to the tune of $220,000 last year, largely thanks to a disastrous effort by her lawyer, Brian Toder.
Toder’s inspired idea to persuade Jammie Thomas to take her case to court resulted in near bankruptcy for the poor woman, who now woes the days she spent using filesharing service Kazaa. Toder has now decided to part ways with Jammie.
Although still a long way off reaching a worthwhile sum, Jammie Thomas is still selling thongs on her official website. Filesharing advocates have been slow off the mark to help Jammie out – in the past nine weeks, her online store has only raised $1,189.57.
Hopefully, Jammie will have a change of fortunes now that her bonehead attorney has gone his own way.
