MetaFilter posts tagged with downloading

Storming the Pink Palace

awesomebrad — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:27:39 -0800

Putting their bandwidth where their mouth is

jbickers — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:09:10 -0800

Good Copy Bad Copy is "a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture," featuring Danger Mouse, Lawrence Lessig, Dan Glickman of the MPAA and others. The film's creators are releasing it free of charge, via Bittorrent.

RIAA sues computerless family for illegal music sharing

charmston — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:45:58 -0800

RIAA sues family for illegal music file sharing. Wouldn't be new or noteworthy — if the family actually had a computer. Via.

Steal this music!

dersins — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:25:27 -0800

Why one man steals music. Either a wonderfully scathing indictment of a music industry that doesn't care about its customers, or a pathetic attempt at justifying illegal activities, depending on your perspective. (Looks like Glenn Mcdonald didn't close up shop after all.) [Via.]

No action to be taken against Russian mp3 site

bap98189 — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:57:10 -0800

Russian prosecutors have apparently decided not to take any action against Allofmp3.com (previously discussed here) , a Russian website which offers copyrighted mp3's for sale. The Moscow prosecutors reason is that Russian copyright laws only apply to physical media such as CD's tapes etc., not to digital media. If this decision is upeld, will it open the floodgates for others to start openly selling copyrighted material?

What would Jesus download?

wfrgms — Tue, 04 May 2004 22:37:57 -0800

Holy illegal downloads, Bibleman! Christian music fans are pirating songs, too! What would Jesus download?

RIAA sues... (again)

sixtwenty3dc — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:30:34 -0800

RIAA sues... (again): The RIAA has just issued a new lawsuit against 532 more "illegal filesharers" only this time, they're also using the "john doe" approach meaning that they dont have to have ascertain your name by strongarming ISPs, but by suing your IP address, they let the judicial system take care of that little detail.

LAMP

liam — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:47:46 -0800

LAMP is an on-demand music service offered to the MIT campus through its cable TV network. The NYTimes mulls the copyright implications.

LiveMusicSource

srboisvert — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 14:31:44 -0800

SharingTheGroove.org Trade concerts at this site where BitTorrent tech is combined with DAT concert taping audiophiles. You can read the boards to find music or you can just check their bitTorrent tracker. If you want to go low tech they also have Blanks & Postage or Tree/Vine forums.

That that, you smug Mac users

jscalzi — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:11:26 -0800

BuyMusic.com debuts, a service that allows the 90-some-odd percent of people out there who use Windows to legally download music like their Mac-loving brethren have been able to do with iTunes. I went and used it today and give it an initial grade of "C": The music collection is adequate but could be larger and definitely needs indie artists, the UI is tolerable but needs improvement, and the music files themselves are generally okay but of inconsistent quality. One major problem I saw is that it listed -- and let people buy -- albums that they couldn't actually download: I had this happen with a Depeche Mode singles collection. Has anyone else used it yet? What are your thoughts? And notwithstanding the imminent Windows version of iTunes (which we are told will arrive by the end of the year), how long until this site has more real competition?