Do many people still download torrents? With all the recent legal action, namely Pirate Bay.
Are people still keen to download free torrents? Or have many chosen to purchase music online.
Interested to hear your thoughts.
I download the torrent only if I can't find it on iTunes or Mubi or whatever, which is rare these days. ~$5 to rent is fine with me. 'Click'.
Music is mostly mix tapes or soundcloud for new music, both free, or I buy a half dozen or so CDs from Amazon of quality albums, for the both the sound quality and price. ~$9 for a CD shipped across the world.
Got rid of cable a long time ago.
Must be really hard with the greed business model the entertainment industry has been peddling for so long and now losing so much money....
Seriously, if they thought about it they could do $1 downloads legally for shows at DVD release level, and even some movies, that typically aren't going to be block busters.... most people would be happy to spend a buck at least..... but the greed model isn't that far sighted.....
ISP's and Big entertainment Co's won't see eye to eye on this, but if they partnered their business models, they could possibly do even better....... and legally for the user......
Use to download heaps via torrents etc. Got myself a conscience thou. Think its only fair to pay people for what they work hard to make :-)
How much for a CD these days?
Buying a CD was a major purchase back in the day, then it would get scratched and all over 
My first CD was 'Breaking the Girl' Chilli Peppers. Must of been my first purchase as a parcel pick up boy at Woolies.
I download the weather forecast from here :
www.seabreeze.com.au
I get it for free but it hardly ever shows what I want to see
If I paid for it would it be any better ?
I have only done this once or twice but got freaked by the potential virus I was being exposed to, Is there a good site for kids catoons? or movies in general, I dont d/load anything really, I listen to the radio and scab off my mates but that about it?\
If anyone knows of a safe site I would be interested to have a look.
Cheers GT
i wouldn't recommend using your average computer for file-share. Get your old computer install a dodgy version of windows and download. People who use there computers for personal data and banking details should not run file sharing programs.
Another recommendation is to not save passwords.... enter them in every time you log in !!!!
A few years ago my wife bought a Nokia 5800 mobile phone. That may sound innocent enough. The trick is this phone came with a one year subscription to the Nokia Music Service, or Comes with Music.
It was an offer too good to be true, a once in a life time offer. Over the year I downloaded around 100 GB of music. It all came with the track data along with album art. The Nokia Music service had a ton of music on it. Basically I was searching old music charts, reading old music magazines and using google to search for song and artist title. Then I'd pop the artist or song title into the search field and often half a dozen or more albums would pop up which I could then download.
The only issue was the files were DRM protected and in that WMA format. Searching revealed a piece of software that could legally remove the protection by playing a protected track and then re-recording the track as an unprotected file, as any music file format you like. This re-recording feature apparently is a legal feature than the American Congress forced on to allow this DRM file protection to be legal. The software, which I paid about $20 for, did about 10 tracks at a time.
End result. No new Music since 2009 but basically no need to buy any older music from now on and all 100% legal. Its not a bad phone either.
Gen Y don't buy CD's or DVD's any more they download or stream everything.
We moaned about the price of CD's for years. Not an issue now. Most 17yo's have never ever bought a cd.
Re- torrents. I believe people are getting pulled up for downloading games and Ms Software. But other than that I wouldn't worry about it.
