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My missus was bought a MP3 for christmas and wants to learn how to use a computer and start downloading music.

I have found a site called Blubster for her, but not sure if this is decent.

Can anyone offer some advice on free download sites

Limewire!

eMule

mininova

torentspy

Limewire = is only good for single tunes on their own.

I use MIRC together with Autoget, this is excellent. A bit tricky at first, but no virusses', and most importantly no audit trail....

TBH as long as you have a wireless access point i imagine you'd be fine in court.

Just plead ignorance and see how they try and prove that it wasn't someone else hijacking your connection...

Your connection, your responsibilty.   a quick scan of your computer for mp3's may be a give away :D

www.mp3.com has lots of legal free music.

i have downloaded of a site called blubster which seems really good. everything has downloaded into playlists fine, but when i go into windows player to burn onto a disc i have a problem.

i have picked the songs, and inserted a blank cd and press START BURN

but nothing happens whatsoever

downloading copyrighted music for free is theft and IMHO should be treated the same way as if the thief had broken into the artists house and stolen money out f there safe

The big difference though is by breaking into the artists house and taking money they lose money.

By downloading a song they lose nothing, unless you assume that every download is a lost sale - even then it's more of a failure to gain.

music theft is a huge crime because it not only robs the artists of a sale but it also robs promising artists of a chance of a record deal

But the filesharing culture opens up so many more options for unheard of bands to promote themselves, and still offers plenty of chance to make money. The people with most to suffer are the big labels, and I have very little sympathy for them. They've treated consumers and they brought it all on themselves...


This song from a favourite artist of mine kind of explains:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co8c246U4nw

Groovy!

I agree...I would never use  a site like Morpheus (cough) to download music.

i do ssually find that, because my taste in music isn't for the popular stuff, I'll still buy the CD...free downloads just give me a sample..or I just need one more song which makes me buy the entire album.

Lol.

Are you serial?

Limewire for singles

torrentspy for albums

There are quite a few acts whose music I have downloaded off the internet for free. I've liked what I've heard and have then become a fan of them and gone out and bought subsequent or previous albums.

Without downloading the original music I may never have got into the act and spent money on them.

In fact, it could be argued that it will now become more common for acts to get record deals precisely because people have been downloading their music for free, liking it, and telling others about it, thus alerting the big companies to their presence.

yep, It is actually proven that most people who download music for free through sites like morpheus and in the old days napster spend MORE money each month on music then people who don't.

I agree with that, since I discovered Napster by CD collection has grown massively. Most of it isn't put out by the majors however...

It's one of those crimes that's ok coz everyone does it.

I need to steal music, becasue if I payed for it, I wouldn't have enough left over for cannabis.

I take a sought of half way house approach to illegal downloading. I pay £9.95 a month to Napster which gives me the right to PLAY 99% of the music they host so long as it's just on my PC. Normally if you attempt to burn it to disc, Windows DRM thwarts you unless you pay for it. However, I've purchased a program called Replay Music which intercepts the music being sent to the sound card and converts it to an unprotected MP3 on the fly, which I can then use as and when I like.

Paying the £9.95 salves my conscience - and to be honest I don't download that much anyway.

How about this article:
http://www.arancidamoeba.com/mrr/problemwithmusic.html

I have more to say on this but I'm rather busy now so will have to return later.

yep...but it's really the 14YO's illegally downloading a single or two (or 20) that's screwing over the artists...really.