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Topic: LimeWire Shut Down!

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Posted Wed 27 Oct 10 @ 10:48 am
I have used Limewire to download some of my music since 2002 and never had crappy sounding MP3's or viruses.

Like anything else it is how you use P2P and how you select the files you are downloading.

I would gladly use music services like itunes etc. but the DRM means the files are restricted in some cases and won't even play in DJ software. A lot of mixes weren't available through retail channels and that's where Limewire was a godsend.

Sad indeed ........
 
Wait, you mean these so called DJs will now have to pay for their music, the same way that I have to pay for my music? Oh my God, what is the world coming to? As I said before, if you did not pay for it, you stole it. If you have a 12 inch, and you want to let you buddy use it, that's OK. You can not copy it and let millions of people use it at the same time. Maybe we can put a camera on your next performance, and do 12 receptions at the same time, but you only get paid for one. How does that sound?
 
Aww That's a shame....for the pirates!
 
Maybe there's a better selection of online music services in the States and Canada .... in the UK it's pretty dire and sometimes the only place to get a certain track is through P2P.

I'm betting the chances of a DJ legally owning every single track he has is pretty slim ..... let's be honest here!
 
I use promo only, napster, and now my premium membership and if I cant get the song I just dont get it
 
That's fantastic news......for now

There will be another P2P site soon. Or Torrent, or whatever they call them now.

99cents per song on iTunes is all it took to convert me. Looking into rhapsody as well.
 
So let me get this straight...you pay 10.00 a month to be a Premium Member, and have the ability to choose to your hearts content a "song" from groveshark, which for all that we know was uploaded by some punk that downloaded it from a p2p? So you paid to get a "illegal downloaded song?" Seems pretty ironic huh? Bottom line is this, if it can be made into a digital file, then somewhere out there in that big place we call the web, you can find it. I don't condone it, but its just a fact of life.......
 
"U.S. recorded music sales have fallen in value to $7.7 billion in 2009 from $14.5 billion in 1999 according to the RIAA. The music industry blames online and physical piracy as the primary reasons for the decline."

Maybe RIAA should blame music makers for producing crappy american hip-hop and forcing radio stations play the same stuff over and over and over...

I used to sell CD's on ebay and hip-hop and rap CD's always had the lowest price.

By the way there are thousands of other websites and services out there right now. Shutting down Limeware (which I never used) is not going to change anything. I know several Russian websites where I can download any song for free. Should RIAA care if I'm downloading Russian music?
 
kradcliffe wrote :
I'm betting the chances of a DJ legally owning every single track he has is pretty slim ..... let's be honest here!



Do I have a couple of tracks that I have gotten from some of my peers, yes. The difference is, I don't make excuses for my behavior. If I did not pay for them, then I stole them. However, less than .01% of my library falls into this category. Where do I get my material from? Promoonly music & video, JonesTM music & video, Tophits music & video, Smashvidz, Videotoolz, Strictlyhits, Yourremix, Virtualremix, Beatport, Rhapsody, and Netsearch subscriptions. I have never been to Limewire, so cannot comment on the quality of their product. However, there are DJs that don't spend a dime on music, so I do not feel for them at all.
 
I have spent between £15 & £20k over the years on CD's and Vinyl. I still have the lot in my garage .... and I mean a lot!

Changes in the UK meant that they pulled 7" vinyl, generally pulled 12" vinyl then stopped putting extended versions on CD singles. You were paying £2.99 for the radio edit and there was nowhere to get the 12" versions.

Add to this the fact that web based sellers were slow to get off the ground, had a poor selection of music, were expensive and the tracks were DRM'd to death forced me down the P2P route.

I do buy current music now as much as possible, but Limewire, WinMX et al had a place. The greedy short sighted record companies killed things for themselves by being overly restrictive.

I can say for a fact that probably between 2000 & 2008 (before itunes became better) that without P2P I would have struggled to do my job as a UK bar & club DJ as a lot of the music was either not available on any media or held back by the record companies so long it was being played by other DJ's months before release. Do I stay up to date with competing DJ's or die because the record companies play their silly games?

Add to that that until I got VDJ in 2008, BPM Studio would not play itunes downloads so what could I do?
 
A lot of music services in the UK really weren't and still aren't upto it, I had to download because I travel and the CD services don't send abroad.

Payed download services don't have everything either, I went onto 8th wonder the other day and didn't get what I was looking for (3 songs), mainly because it's US based and they just don't get our stuff.

p2p has saved me a few times although there are duds on there and viruses, I have a good thing going at the mo and never need to download.

Am cancelling 8th wonder this month.

Flo Rida and the rest of them still make millions despite Limewire, in any case it will never return to how it was before, since the net there has been an increase in the amount of dj's, obviously because musics free, most of them fly by nights and cancers that otherwise couldn't finance it which used to be great, sorted the men from the boys.

Used to work all hours to buy records n cds while those guy used to be in the pub, but now they just get there wife's to illegally download while there in the pub. Ask yourself who's the stupid one?
 
I use 2 Video/MP3 Music Pools, and Amazon and have never looked back. If Im preparing for a show I sometimes utilize usenet binaires for albums. Another DJ I went to go see this weekend had Limewire up when i was talking to him about his set list, unfortunately he didnt preview his track and his Hood Figga song had DJ such-and-such talking periodically though out the track, what amazed me is he used the guys voice as a scratching sample and loopout to get out of the track.


Off - Topic:
I recently had my ISP suspend me for 30 days do to a "payartist" complaint for music my girlfriends daughter apparently downloaded using limewire pro -( Yanni of all things...)
 
djrobinhamilton wrote :
http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/music/2010/10/26/15842506.html

At least club goers will be spared the crappy sounding MP3's some DJ's got form here & as an added bonus you won't have to keep wondering why your computer keeps acting up from all the viruses!


+1 on this!!!
 
encoremdj wrote :
I use 2 Video/MP3 Music Pools, and Amazon and have never looked back. If Im preparing for a show I sometimes utilize usenet binaires for albums. Another DJ I went to go see this weekend had Limewire up when i was talking to him about his set list, unfortunately he didnt preview his track and his Hood Figga song had DJ such-and-such talking periodically though out the track, what amazed me is he used the guys voice as a scratching sample and loopout to get out of the track.


Off - Topic:
I recently had my ISP suspend me for 30 days do to a "payartist" complaint for music my girlfriends daughter apparently downloaded using limewire pro -( Yanni of all things...)


now that one made me laugh
 
netsearch / grooveshark , smashvidz , larryd , & amazon

yes some punk might have uploaded the track (grooveshark) , but now at least the artists get compensated

also the many great skin/plugin people here get some $$ ......
 
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
 
maybe they can reincarnate as something useful and legit like a hub for unsigned artists
 
It doesnt make a difference with limewire. There are many websites that give away free promotional music legally.
 


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