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On music piracy made easy...
14 years ago
So. Everything old is new again.
Long ago, when I was first getting on this here internetz thing, I used to download mp3s by pulling up whichever search engine was hot at the time and searching for mp3s. The selection was crap. The song quality was crap, and you had to search for hours, and then spend further hours downloading these files over a 2400 baud modem. Then Metallicops and the RIAA put a stop to all that. Things went underground. Peer to peer file sharing started up, and the war was on. You could no longer just search for and download your favorite mp3 through a web browser, but needed a special, dedicated network that was "RIAA proof" to get good music free. As the "man" cracked down more and more, things went further underground. Darknets and torrenting. Encrypted file sharing networks that refused unencrypted connections. All sorts of dodges to keep them from shutting you down, while they spent more and more time and money on cracking these new pirate networks. And now? They have spent so much time and effort on these things, they no longer worry about the small to middling web pages that just up and host the files anymore.
Next time you need a song, Google it. Just put in the song title and mp3 and chances are, within a few top returns, you'll find a link where you can download the file.
I love the internet...
Long ago, when I was first getting on this here internetz thing, I used to download mp3s by pulling up whichever search engine was hot at the time and searching for mp3s. The selection was crap. The song quality was crap, and you had to search for hours, and then spend further hours downloading these files over a 2400 baud modem. Then Metallicops and the RIAA put a stop to all that. Things went underground. Peer to peer file sharing started up, and the war was on. You could no longer just search for and download your favorite mp3 through a web browser, but needed a special, dedicated network that was "RIAA proof" to get good music free. As the "man" cracked down more and more, things went further underground. Darknets and torrenting. Encrypted file sharing networks that refused unencrypted connections. All sorts of dodges to keep them from shutting you down, while they spent more and more time and money on cracking these new pirate networks. And now? They have spent so much time and effort on these things, they no longer worry about the small to middling web pages that just up and host the files anymore.
Next time you need a song, Google it. Just put in the song title and mp3 and chances are, within a few top returns, you'll find a link where you can download the file.
I love the internet...
I don't see why they keep sinking so much money into it really, it's a fight they'll never win.