Free Peer to Peer music downloads
Monday, January 28th, 2008
Everytime I talk to Workmonkey about downloading shit, he comes back with an accusatory remark like, “..and I bet you didn’t pay for that download.”. The same guy grabbing Mp3s off of Limewire and Nelly for the past 5 years isn’t exactly the model of digital rights compliance.
I remember Napster, I remember Napster’s end (and my friend Hector’s end of job), and then Limewire, Kazaa, and BitTorrent. All these services do the same thing, which is fill up your music player with music that you don’t pay for. As much as the RIAA would like this to stop, it is like banning alcohol, drugs, or building a big wall between the US and Mexico…impossible.
So finally, the music companies have started to yield and you can actually download unlimited tracks for free legally now. Real songs (not just crap public domain stuff) from real artists starting today. Pretty cool, I’ll be downloading to see how well it works. Now we just need to get the movie industry, software manufacturers, game manufacturers, and pr0n manufacturers to do the same thing.