Matthew_McNally
February 27, 2003, 10:52 am
I fully support the downloading of music over the internet.
Buying CD's does not support the artist - it only supports the record company.
Prince makes more money now selling 10,000 copies of his album direct than he made selling millions of copies of his recod company produced albums.
The markup on CD's is excessive, and completely unjustified.
Why is a cassette tape, which is a complex mechanical device involving several moving parts cheaper than a CD which I can personally buy for less than 80p?
This downloading malarkey is simple market forces - take the hint record companies, people are sick of paying £15 for a CD
All the recording industry has to defeat a lot of downloading is to deliver what the market wants - cheaper music.
I wouldn't hop around p2p networks looking for songs, if I could go to the record company website and download the album for a couple of quid.
So - to answer your question Mitch - for music you want Winmx - and make sure you get a listing of the OpenNap servers - I have one if you can't find your own (

) The OpenNap servers are an open source napster style network, and a excellent source for music.
For films / software then XDCC / DirectConnect is the best bet - not as friendly as Winmx / Kazaa etc, but most things are there, and can be downloaded easily enough.