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LimeWire to pull its P2P client after failed court battle

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Be gone foul beast, be gone.
 
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Well iTunes is 99 cents to $1.49 so it's really not a huge difference. What the digitial age did is bring about the ability to buy single tracks of any music without needing to buy the rest.
While this may be true for "popular" music, it is not always the case with classical music. A typical classical symphony is comprised of 3 or 4 movements. It is a very common practice in iTunes to offer all but one of the movements individually and the remaining one is only available when you buy the entire album!

Mini-hijack --

For those of you who do like classical music "on a budget" of $0.00, there is a website called ClassicCat.net (Classic Cat - the free classical music directory) that offers literally thousands of classical pieces that are in the public domain free of charge. Most of the pieces are by up-and-coming musicians who are just looking to get their name out there as well as college and university orchestras.
 
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This is exactly where itunes shines in my opinion. Back in the day people hating shopping in the record (now CD) store cause you could never listen to what you got before you bought it and took it home. It was pretty much either you knew the artist's work or took pot luck and sometimes paid good money for a dud.

Napster and then limewire fixed this issue for many people. Cause they could then "try before they went to the record store and bought". I know I used to be like this. Many many of my near 1000 store bought music CDs would not have been bought without hearing the tracks first. And a lot of people who don't use itunes still do this.

But with itunes 30 second preview I don't need to download (and have the moral issues) and I can be a lot more confident in what I purchase. But it does mean I still have to go home, hit up itunes before I enter the record store. I just can't walk into a record store and hear what I wanna buy before I buy it.

Sure this has nothing to do with Limewire being pulled. But just my 2¢.
 
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I don't even think you're right. Track for track, CDs (outside of rare instances, and then usually only for a short period of time), were barely more expensive than the the iTunes tracks.

You quote $30, but that is not really how much most CDs cost. Let's use $15 or $20 as a more average number with an average of 12 tracks per CD. So what, you're paying maybe $1.50 or so per track?

Well iTunes is 99 cents to $1.49 so it's really not a huge difference. What the digitial age did is bring about the ability to buy single tracks of any music without needing to buy the rest. It wasn't really the cost cutter you're implying. There is no such thing as "fair" pricing. Pricing will be whatever the market can bare, that's capitalism and that's the fair price. If people thought it was too expensive back then, they wouldn't have bought CDs and the companies would have had to lower prices. They obviously didn't feel that pressure because people bought them. Maybe you couldn't afford it, but that was not the issue.

As for your supposed "right" to music, that's garbage. You do not have a right to anything other than to live. If you can't afford the music, it doesn't give you the right to steal someone else's work. There's tons of music in the public domain, or the radio, or if it's so important to you in order to live, learn how to sing or play an instrument.

Don't try to defend your theft, it just makes you come off as more unethical than you already are. If you want to steal music, that's your choice, but don't try to make it sound like you were doing the right thing.


What ever you pay in the states we pay double.
 
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What ever you pay in the states we pay double.

Agreed. Things in different countries cost different amounts. It's not double but often it is more.
 
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Music is ridiculously overpriced nowadays.

I wouldn't mind supporting the musician but most of the money is going towards greedy record companies etc.

Thank god there is a thing called Pandora. ;D
 
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Thankfully most of the artists I like sell music through their own means, and I feel better knowing I'm ordering it straight from them. Lucky to love obscure stuff I guess :D But the funnest and most rewarding way to support them, to me, is going to live performances :) It's so much fun to interact in that environment with the music, and unlike often money from album sales, that money goes in their pocket :)

Good riddance to LimeWire though.
 
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For those of you who do like classical music "on a budget" of $0.00, there is a website called ClassicCat.net.

Very good point raised about offering a whole piece in pieces, each to be paid for separately! Good ol iTunes.

This might be an appropriate stage to mention to those who vilify Limewire that there are alternatives, and eminently affordable ones. There's a thread in M-F somewhere, which I cannot find immediately, in which there are suggested sites for downloading music legally.
 
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Bye bye Lime Wire and may you stay deceased FOREVER!
 
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gonna have to go elsewhere to get viruses and "other porn"
drat....
 
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What ever you pay in the states we pay double.

Regardless of how much it costs, that doesn't give you the right to steal. Sorry to burst your bubble.
 
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While this may be true for "popular" music, it is not always the case with classical music. A typical classical symphony is comprised of 3 or 4 movements. It is a very common practice in iTunes to offer all but one of the movements individually and the remaining one is only available when you buy the entire album!

Speaking of classical music, I hate how it's so difficult to organize classical music in iTunes. I suppose if I only had classical, I could come up with a system that made sense, but trying to make it work with a large genre of music types is almost impossible. :\
 
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Does this mean windows OS will get a bit more reliable now?
I used to use limewire/others, because I used to HATE having to buy a cd that was sold due to one of its songs being a hit, but everything else completely being crap. Now, I just pay a buck(sometimes less, sometimes more) and be done with it...if I really want it.
 
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Does this mean windows OS will get a bit more reliable now?
I used to use limewire/others, because I used to HATE having to buy a cd that was sold due to one of its songs being a hit, but everything else completely being crap. Now, I just pay a buck(sometimes less, sometimes more) and be done with it...if I really want it.

Nah. There will still be threats from malicious web coding and Active X.
 
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Meh, Limewire has been getting less and less reliable over the past several years. Lots of spam and other garbage. No great loss IMO.
 
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I'm not the least bit surprised that this happened, I think we all knew it was eventually going to happen, however, I'm wondering why things like LimeWire were shut down, but other P2P or torrent programs or sites haven't been shut down. So I can't download the .mp3 file from LimeWire, but I can find the video on YouTube, paste it into a site that will convert the video into an .mp3 file, and then download it? The irony....
 

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