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CarlV
Lunatic Member
Not that I know of. They sure are making a killing ripping the public off for .90-1.00 for a 128k mp3. No need to give quality at the expense of 10x the storage and bandwidth at this point. It is all maximizing profits these days and that they have done to great success.
Carl
Carl
Mystic
We're all born mad
One does see a fair amount of high quality rips (320k), APE and FLAC in the blogosphere and in member forums, especially music blog & forum sites dedicated to an interest in Jazz music. To many of these I have contributed, and from many of these I have received excellent rips, often from original vinyl as a lot of the more material is too obscure, OOP, etc., to ever become a candidate for a CD reissue, especially now with CDs on the way out (or down) and all of this digital file-based music "media" on the rise. Many of the Rock blogs that deal in the more esoteric & obscure material - psych, UK folk, prog and "difficult" music (think Nurse With Wound, Merzbow, etc.) - tend to offer CD (more rarely, vinyl) rips at decent bitrates, at least 192k but very often @ 256 & 320. Yeah, get that Azureus going and start finding the files, you'll be surprised by what's out there.
CarlV
Lunatic Member
I got this AV warning/stop from the first link you gave - wtorrent.com.
http://www.viruslist.com/en/search?VN=Trojan-Downloader.VBS.Agent.p&referer=kav
YMMV
Carl
http://www.viruslist.com/en/search?VN=Trojan-Downloader.VBS.Agent.p&referer=kav
YMMV
Carl
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lordfoo
Active Member
Okay, I've edited out the offending URL to be on the safe side. However, i've been using the site for months and have downloaded a lot of beauiful recordings without a peep from my symantec antivirus virus guard.
CarlV
Lunatic Member
It is why I put YMMV, you don't necessarily get the same treatment. I once went to a regular proper band's site, nothing shady at all, and got something that trashed my registery so I had to reformat my HD. Not everybody has an AV so should beware is all.
Needless to say it put the end to me not using AV software for good.:yes:
Carl
Needless to say it put the end to me not using AV software for good.:yes:
Carl
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AlleyKat
Super Member
Until the RIAA succeeds in shutting it down, the Russian site, allTunes, http://www.alltunes.com/en-index.shtml offers extremely reasonable prices for an awesome selection of music. Prices are based upon the size of the files, for example the complete Abbey Road ranges from $2.17 for 192 kbps or $2.72 for 256 kbps VBR mp3's to $8.31 for FLAC lossless. Virtually every format is offered, even WAV. The site offers "786,601 tracks in 56,542 albums by 18,312 artists from $0.15* per song, $1.99* per album."
I have been using this service for quite some time and have never experienced a problem with billing or, even more importantly given that it is a Russian site, identity theft
I have been using this service for quite some time and have never experienced a problem with billing or, even more importantly given that it is a Russian site, identity theft
Klownschool
Mouth open = can't hear
Until the RIAA succeeds in shutting it down, the Russian site, allTunes, http://www.alltunes.com/en-index.shtml offers extremely reasonable prices for an awesome selection of music. Prices are based upon the size of the files, for example the complete Abbey Road ranges from $2.17 for 192 kbps or $2.72 for 256 kbps VBR mp3's to $8.31 for FLAC lossless. Virtually every format is offered, even WAV. The site offers "786,601 tracks in 56,542 albums by 18,312 artists from $0.15* per song, $1.99* per album."
I have been using this service for quite some time and have never experienced a problem with billing or, even more importantly given that it is a Russian site, identity theft
Do you know if there are any repercussions for using this site in the US? I mean legally.
Rick
AlleyKat
Super Member
The Russian site claims that it fully complies with all Russian copyright laws -
"Copyright
All materials in the LLS Internet Audit projects are available for distribution via Internet according to license of the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society. Under the license agreement, LLS Internet Audit pays license fees for all the materials subject to the Law of the Russian Federation "On Copyright and Related Rights". All the materials are available solely for personal use. Any further distribution, resale or broadcasting is prohibited.
All trade marks, trade names, company names, slogans, logos, and any other copyright items, which can be seen on the Site pages in various contexts, are the property of their respective owners. You have no right to copy, distribute or use them otherwise without the prior written consent of the owners.
If the software client contains links to other sites, they are provided for your convenience only. You agree that the Administration is not to be held liable for their operability, content or damage resulting from using them.
You agree that use of the Services provided by LLS Internet Audit is at your own risk and with your personal consent. All the Services are provided "as is" without any guarantee obligations on the part of the Administration (apart from those mentioned above). The Administration does not provide you with any guarantee that you will profit or benefit by the use of the Services. You agree NOT to appeal to the Administration on account of the quality of the Services provided, as well as due to any possible damage you experience as a result of using or accessing the allTunes Services."
"Copyright
All materials in the LLS Internet Audit projects are available for distribution via Internet according to license of the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society. Under the license agreement, LLS Internet Audit pays license fees for all the materials subject to the Law of the Russian Federation "On Copyright and Related Rights". All the materials are available solely for personal use. Any further distribution, resale or broadcasting is prohibited.
All trade marks, trade names, company names, slogans, logos, and any other copyright items, which can be seen on the Site pages in various contexts, are the property of their respective owners. You have no right to copy, distribute or use them otherwise without the prior written consent of the owners.
If the software client contains links to other sites, they are provided for your convenience only. You agree that the Administration is not to be held liable for their operability, content or damage resulting from using them.
You agree that use of the Services provided by LLS Internet Audit is at your own risk and with your personal consent. All the Services are provided "as is" without any guarantee obligations on the part of the Administration (apart from those mentioned above). The Administration does not provide you with any guarantee that you will profit or benefit by the use of the Services. You agree NOT to appeal to the Administration on account of the quality of the Services provided, as well as due to any possible damage you experience as a result of using or accessing the allTunes Services."
Klownschool
Mouth open = can't hear
I appreciate the information but that doesn't answer my question as far as legal concerns in the US. If anyone knows anything about this, please chime in.
Rick
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JimJ[VT]
Super Member
It's probably illegal in the US. In fact, I'd be sure of it.
But your chances of being caught while downloading is extremely slim, unless you go apeshit and your ISP notices 60GB worth of transfer in a week.
Uploading, on the other hand...I wouldn't recommend it unless you have a lot of people with open Wifi around you.
But your chances of being caught while downloading is extremely slim, unless you go apeshit and your ISP notices 60GB worth of transfer in a week.
Uploading, on the other hand...I wouldn't recommend it unless you have a lot of people with open Wifi around you.
MikeCh
Super Member
www.archive.org for all sorts of live shows has tons of FLAC as well as .mp3. Since these shows are user-recorded, it can take some wading around to find great sounding ones, but it's worth it.....and it's educational when you find out that you really like certain styles of music you never thought possible.
Mike
Mike
Victor
Super Member
Linn has music that can be downloaded in CD quality FLAC files. They also offer Studio quality FLAC downloads at 24bit 48khz 743.4MB. Most of the CD quality FLAC downloads are $14-$15 which is about $5 less than getting the CD.
http://www.linnrecords.com/
I have not downloaded any of these but I do have a few CDs from Linn and the sound quality is excellent.
Victor
http://www.linnrecords.com/
I have not downloaded any of these but I do have a few CDs from Linn and the sound quality is excellent.
Victor
