Subj : Music Sites For Linux
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Glue
Date : Sat Jul 16 2005 04:15 am

  Re: Music Sites For Linux
  By: ROB MCCART to CHRISTOPHER PERRAULT on Wed Jul 13 2005 07:20 pm

 > CP>Hi everyone.
 >   >I'm looking into some of the bigger online music download services
 >   >(Itunes,Napster,Rhapsody,etc). I'd like to get myself an MP3 collection..
 >   >...Am I missing any sites out there(legal ones preferably)
 > 
 > These days I doubt downloading MP3's is legal anywhere.
 > It was sort of a gray area in Canada until recently but even
 > that's now been addressed in court..  So proceed with caution.
 > 

I manage a few hosts in the US, Canada and UK. All of them give very strict
instructions to terminate any site that could result in a DMCA. 

Regardless of your geographical location your bandwidth comes from one of about
8 major carriers. All of them to my knowledge are cracking down on that sort of
activity within their network. 

It will only be a matter of time before media shares find themselves scarce.
This stinks because it punishes those who use them legally, as they were
intended. Torrents were devised as a way to share and distribute Linux. 

You can download for as low as $0.25 per mp3 , sometimes less depending on the
site you are using. I was all for media shares because they would make music
reasonable again and force bands to tour more than spit out cookie cutter album
releases. This has happened to a degree.. 

Comcast and UUNet actually watch your traffic. I have a friend who has a letter
from comcast on his wall warning him to stop pirating, and they gave date time
filename and file size. We did benefit from the media shares .. but its time to
bite the bullet .. imho a quarter is cheap peace of mind.


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