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Originally posted by DaveSaenz It will only backfire on them when they sue some poor 8 year old in government housing.

haha the day i see this happening.

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Originally posted by DaveSaenz A Washington DC court of appeals has just ruled against the RIAA, overturning a lower court's ruling. According to their ruling, the RIAA cannot force ISPs to divulge their subscribers' personal info..... I don't know why the Canadian RI would follow this political dead end. It will only backfire on them when they sue some poor 8 year old in government housing.

Get out of our forum, Dave.

(kidding, of course)

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i think the argument that most albums only have 2-3 good songs only applies to mainstream music anyways... and they're the only people who are really suffering... wow, some big popstar lost a few thousand dollars to downloaders, big deal... you know what the REAL reason for that is? the only 2 good songs from his/her albums get played 20x a day on the radio anyways... why the hell would anyone buy the album?

the answer to the problem lies in independant music... i buy tons of CDs from bands i like... most of them are on small labels. those labels don't screw with their music, or force them into multi-record deals. the result is QUALITY music. i'm quite satisfied with most of the CDs i buy.

if a band is contractually required to release X number of albums, then in most cases, the albums get watered down just so they can have enough material to finish the album... add that to the fact that most big popstars don't even have artistic control over much of their music anyways, and in most cases don't write lyrics or melody and you can see why nobody will shed a tear for these big label babies. the only people i might feel sorry for are the no-namers who actually write the music and lyrics behind the scenes...

does the music industry think we're gonna keep choking down their manufactured popstar garbage forever? survival of the fittest... the current state of music is garbage, and if it burns, something better will come out of it.

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actually... i have about 150 electronica cds, and amybe 10 are worth buying imo, thank god i didnt actually buy them

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Originally posted by Flec actually... i have about 150 electronica cds, and amybe 10 are worth buying imo, thank god i didnt actually buy them

good point...I believe I was saying something along these lines earlier. I buy what is worth buying.

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Originally posted by Crazy Serb Bah... I'm not worried. Using soulseek to share files ONLY with those people on my list and having public access to my files OFF, way to go.

Same here. I got ride of kazaa aswell..

^^^^ Soulseek is shite most of the time though...the search engine is pure crap and the speeds are laughable! I tested it with my friend (both of us have Rogers cable internet) and the best speed we could get was 12kbps. It's a good program, but lame too.

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Originally posted by mr. poopyhead ... the current state of music is garbage, and if it burns, something better will come out of it.

Bingo! I think overall, the world music scene has been deteriorating lately, mainly the mainstream music. Looks what happened to rock music - from Pink Floyd (AWESOME band) to Slipknot (dirt!) ... holly hell. Hip Hop music = from Run DMC (GREAT rapper!) to Eminem (WTF?). And most people actually dig that junk! POP - from ABBA (great) to Christina Aguilera - WTF?

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Originally posted by Magnetonium Bingo! I think overall, the world music scene has been deteriorating lately, mainly the mainstream music. Looks what happened to rock music - from Pink Floyd (AWESOME band) to Slipknot (dirt!) ... holly hell. Hip Hop music = from Run DMC (GREAT rapper!) to Eminem (WTF?). And most people actually dig that junk! POP - from ABBA (great) to Christina Aguilera - WTF?

I think this is one of the reasons why many of us decided to explore Electronic Dance Music and then found that it was great stuff indeed.

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Originally posted by Dj Smitty20 ^^^^ Soulseek is shite most of the time though...the search engine is pure crap and the speeds are laughable! I tested it with my friend (both of us have Rogers cable internet) and the best speed we could get was 12kbps. It's a good program, but lame too.

Now that's your own opinion... I find soulseek to be "THE shit". I can find whatever I want on it, from latest promos and unreleased songs to the old and ancient tunes, with decent speeds (and I get speeds up to 100 kb/s, again depending who you're downloading off), plus there are no annoying banners and whatnot. It serves its purpose perfectly... and I am laughing (being on Rogers cable too).

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the odd time I get good speeds off people, but most of the time it's less than 12kbps, whereas on Kazaalite, I'm minimum 100kbps. Soulseek is awesome, don't get me wrong...but it's frustrating the majority of the time in my experience. It often takes patience I don't have.

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Originally posted by cap I'm not too worried. Kazaa Lite w/ firewall and IP spoofer should do finely.

last time I heard, kazaa lite was working with the riaa..

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