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The Pirate Bay, Online Apps and DRM
GameGrrl
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Goodbye Pirate Bay! It seems they've gone the way of Suprnova and Napster, being bought out, gutted, and soon to be ressurected as a ghost of their former selves.
Since we're not allowed to talk about how to pirate or infringe copyright, I figure this is a good thread to talk about what kind of legal programs you guys use to get data over the internet. I'd also like to hear your thoughts on DRM and the legality of all this.
I use [url="http://www.Steam.com]Steam[/url] a lot, it's pretty much replaced all my computer games purchases now.
Grooveshark is the best for music, you can listen to pretty much any song on there.
I'm still looking for a good Hulu-like TV streaming services that will work in Canada.
I use Google Reader a lot for news aggregation and keeping up to date with worldwide news.
What other services do you guys use online? What do you do with your internet connections?
Also hurf durf downloading porn yes I know.
Since we're not allowed to talk about how to pirate or infringe copyright, I figure this is a good thread to talk about what kind of legal programs you guys use to get data over the internet. I'd also like to hear your thoughts on DRM and the legality of all this.
I use [url="http://www.Steam.com]Steam[/url] a lot, it's pretty much replaced all my computer games purchases now.
Grooveshark is the best for music, you can listen to pretty much any song on there.
I'm still looking for a good Hulu-like TV streaming services that will work in Canada.
I use Google Reader a lot for news aggregation and keeping up to date with worldwide news.
What other services do you guys use online? What do you do with your internet connections?
Also hurf durf downloading porn yes I know.
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Google Voice has begun slowly rolling out invites to people. I've had an account with them since it was still GrandCentral, but I'd really like the option to change my number, even if just once.
Mint.com is great for managing your finances.
Dropbox is an excellent way to keep files on multiple computers, and share them with others.
That said, "oh no a torrent site has gone down whatever shall we do"
Also I use emusic when I have the money. Just got myself an album off it a few days ago
turns out that i did, but i never finished activating my account back then because i forgot or something?
and therefore when i logged in they were like, this account never finished activation and is unavailable
and that was in 2007 when i got that invite, so now i have to wait for a google voice invite
stupid!
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
and pirate bay is/was the biggest torrent site out there...so.... you know....
Yeah but I mean shutting down one torrent site just means the rest get bigger
pretty much everything is between 8 and 15 cents per track
also sign up using my link if you like it pls
holy shit
holy shit
Yeah fuuuuudge that especially now that I'm all set up
Last check I had....thirty gigs of music and counting, and another 16-50 gigs of video depending on whether I just have X-Files or X-Files plus something else on here
holy shit
the ToS seems pretty legit
According to this, they're still on shaky legal ground, at least in the US.
they are, but because they're international the US government/RIAA can't do much about it without working something out with ROMS (the Russian Organization for Multimedia Systems)
their copyright laws are entirely different and basically allow people to sell music as much as they want until the copyright holder requests their own royalties
not to mention, if you do a search for "The Beatles", you can buy their albums. the rights to The Beatles catalog isn't available to anyone to sell on any MP3 store at the moment, let alone some random russian website
i really hope you morons aren't handing over your credit card information to get "legal" 8 cent music downloads
None of my keyboard shortcut stuff works on windows 7 so I need to install those drivers
and I have that 10gb EEE storage thing
I can see how it would be useful but right now I have no use for it
The only things I would store are a lot more than 2 gigs
They're changing it so if an album is more than....twelve songs I think, you still only use up twelve downloads when you buy it
Which is awesome
emusic is awesome and the changes they're making are awesome
I just wish they'd add rollover since they increased their subscription prices already to compensate for the album changes
it's annoying that at the end of each month I have to scramble to spend my MP3 credits or they just disappear
maybe if this was 1993 when there was no fraud protection and nobody bothered to check their account
and they are legal, they are legally purchased in a sovereign nation and transferred to ownership in the us and ex-post-facto law protects anybody that may download now if this actually does become illegal
I would use Amazon in a heartbeat, but it isn't available in Canada for some stupid reason that's probably our fault.
Emusic is pretty sweet, hi5! I was kind of saddened that my old ass, grandfathered-in plan is no longer valid, but I guess adding a ton more music makes up for it.
I still need to pick the rest of my downloads for this month, though.
Yeah that's irritating
I just canceled my account again, just because I don't have enough music to buy that's on there to justify it
It's great when I want some little buttfuck punk band though, or a local band's new album
Found the live version of My Brain Hurts on there Saturday, that was pretty great
man that ain't a thing
they are technically dubious, but not illegal
or in the very least, if you are somehow caught any competent lawyer would be able to argue their way out of it