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I have finally decided it is time to leave the world of Kazaa and all those sites which seem to fill my pc with spyware and do the decent thing and pay to join a legal one (in fact someone on here once made a barbed comment to me about illegal downloading !) Anyway ... what I wondered is ... if I pay for a site which is the best, and is there the large selection that there used to be on what used to be my favourite WinMx which has now disappeared, or is it only what they offer. In other words are we still sharing, and if so now that it is a paysite will there be as many people on there as there used to be when you could find all sorts of unusual old tracks ???? Thanks in advance.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.There are hacks that can get WinMX going. http://www.slyck.com/winmx.php . As they've not been widely adopted, I would imagine that the selection isn't as wide as it was. (Personally, I thought WinMX sucked when it was fully operational).
Anyway, if you are "sharing" rather than downloading from a dedicated server (eg iTunes, Napster etc etc), then it is still illegal unless the copyright holder has specifically granted the right to free distribution of their work. Paying for P2P seems pointless - why pay for the privilege of breaking the law?
G'Day
Well, if you want a legal site, try http://www.allofmp3.com/, it is not a file sharing site at all. You join (which costs nothing) then you fill your balance (that is pay in advance) and then download what you like. For example you can put $US20 on your account. You are debited $US0.02 per MB, regardless of what you download, Classical, Pop, new releases etc, the selection is large. You can download single songs or entire albums in WAV, MP3 at various compression rates, etc. You can also download previews of songs/albums to see if you like them - you pay nothing for previews.
I know people in Oz (including me), the US, New Zealand, Canada, and Singapore who use it and none of us have had any problem at all, we have not been able to attribute any spam to the site and have had no problems with anything we have downloaded - this does not mean you do not take precautions.
For more info, just click Help in the top right hand corner on the page I linked to.
Geoff