Limewire down

[RoLnRoCk]

use torrents. safer, more secure than limewire

fyi site: http://btfaq.com/serve/cache/1.html

my favo free torrent program: http://www.bitcomet.com/

resource site: http://thepiratebay.org/

[Swanny-CG]

I have been buying my music from Russia since 2004 at a site called http://gomusic.ru (edit - it seems they now prefer http://www.gomusicnow.com/ but the address I put in will take you there too).

It's about $0.09 per song (that's most albums for less than a dollar). They say they pay the artist, and like I said they've been there since 2004 at least, so for me it's an in-between thing.

I've never had any issues with their payment vendor.

One year they had a sale - all you could download for $25 through December 31st. Carni and I went batshit. They cut us off at midnight RUSSIAN time haha, I guess two weeks of pretty much 24/7 downloading was enough for us. Wer were having a hard time thinking of things to download. They have a LOT of stuff.

You prepay between $30-60 and they give you bonuses a lot of times the more you prepay.

I use Flashget to download the stuff once I buy it, and it also includes a torrent client if you go that route. Flashget is free: http://www.flashget.com/index_en.html


Does no one use Usenet anymore??

[WaffleFries]

I agree with RoLnRoCK that torrents and safer and more secure than limewire. That being said, usenet is faster, more reliable and safer than torrents. But generally you have to pay about $10 a month for usenet access.

SABnzbd + sickbeard + astraweb = win

[Swanny-CG]

I'm the stodgy old newzbin or binsearch + newsleecher + giganews.

[WaffleFries]

I'm the stodgy old newzbin or binsearch + newsleecher + giganews.

Giganews was the best a few years back, but you paid a premium for that. Now astraweb is pretty much just as good for $11/month or $96/year (unlimited, 810 days retention, 99% completion, SSL)

nzbs.org and nzb.su are 2 good free NZB sites.

Also give SABnzbd a try. It uses command line tools for par2 checking and decompressing, which in my experience are MUCH faster than using 7zip or quickpar for example. Has some nice post-processing options that will rename stuff and move it to my NAS.

Sickbeard is a must if you follow a few different TV series

[PL_HaVoK]

I do torrent myself but there is also frostwire you can download. Here is the link http://www.frostwire.com/

[PL_HaVoK]

I added the link.... LOL