I have a question.

I just got a new laptop, and I want to get into the whole downloading music scene. But I have no idea where to start. The only place I know and trust is piratebay.com. Does anyone else know of a website similar to this? Piratebay is good and all, but they only provide whole albums(to my knowledge), but not single songs. I want a website where I can download music without getting into trouble and without getting viruses; and would also like for it be a simple click and download site. If anyone can help please do. Thank you.

sincerely
freebird420
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you know you need bittorrent for piratebay right?
if you got bittorrent all underway, BTJunkie.org is a better site imo.
On some bittorrent clients you single out which files you want to download.
If you have Mac, i highly suggest Transmission.
For Windows i suggest uTorrent (u is actually the sign for micro. takes up so little space on your disk)

link for client comparisons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_Clients

when it comes to viruses and such, bittorrent is very very good. You can see when a torrent isn't good to download by the reports from the website you download your torrent from. BTJunkie has good reliable reports almost all the time. Almost because if you're looking for something unpopular, there wouldn't be a lot of people to report back on it.

 

try your local record store.

 

oh and you'll only get caught illegally if there's something in the torrent you download. Which will be either be a file in the file list (which is just too blatant) or reports from other people will tell you. The reports are super useful.
Oh and if you upload/make your own torrents, you're taking the chance of getting caught too cuz your cable networker will notice the unusual uploading. So just stick with leeching and seeding

 

Ok.. here is my setup...
I run a virus scanner(avast)
i run a firewall(outpost)
i run PeerGaurdian.. which is like a firewall and blocks a list of IPs that are known addresses for companies that may scan your computer while downloading...
I use uTorrent as my client
PirateBay, btjunkie, and google
i have never gotten a letter.. or a phone call.. nor do i get viruses or any of that bullshit.. the lack of virus also comes from common sense and years of downloading and learning little tricks to tell if something may be a virus.. but this is rare in the torrent community when it comes to music.. apps and games is a different story

 

I'd pay for cds if they didn't charge so god damn much, and carried what I'm looking for. If more bands came to the KW area I'd go to their shows and buy a cd at the merch table, but rarely does anyone come here that I'd be interested in seeing.

 

The dude that maintains my comp. and i ask for stuff like this he just has be use limewire.
I asked him about torrents and he said they are really risky and you have to know what you are doing....

 

your dudes an idiot imo. Torrents are way safer than limewire. This is also coming from me who has downloaded 1.8 terabytes or more in the past 6 months from torrents with no viruses

 

Hhaah your so silly.
Hes really not.
He has a 7 year degree in computers and hes a DJ....


And ive used limewire for a long time... no problems what so ever.

 

meh ill trust my experience and my dads phd, sorry

 

Well you do that and illl stick to my computer nerd.

 

sorry but if we are getting into a dick measuring contest i believe my dads phd beats your computer nerds whatever. Not trying to be a dick but im a bit drunk

 

I don't care.... he knows what hes doing.
Excuses....

 

come on excuses???? i believe a phd is gonna trump whatever knownledge he has along with my dads 30 plus years in the industry. sorry but i win

 

What does he have a phd in?

 

umm fucking computers or whatever hes a professor. That kind of stuff is his shit. I love it, dont have to worry about building me a computer or fixing it when theres a problem reformatting cant fix. I mean he was around when computers where first created so he knows everythign lol

 

what crudeness.
it definitely doesn't take a phd to know that bittorrent is better.
"they're really risky and you have to know what you are doing"
If you'd know what you're doing with Bittorrent I'm sure it's definitely not risky, just like how the dude you know knows enough of limewire for it not to have ruined your comp..

 

im sorry but limewire is shit, i dont know any person that pirates a decent amount of media and would use something like that. Im pretty sure most would agree with me

 

Thats awesome.
Gordon is always trying to explain shit to me but he looses me.

Gordon knows like everything also, dude. If he wanted to go back and get his phd he could.
Anytime theres something wrong or a question i go straight to gordon... im gunna miss having him when i leave.

 

he should then, phds are super fucking hard. My mom has her masters and has told me a couple of times she could never get a phd.

I mean fuck im having trouble get my associates lol