Can anyone suggest any decent alternatives to limewire?

gaming_guy

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kwikbreaks

joeypesci wrote: »

or Utorrent.

Because torrents and torrent apps aren't illegal. They can be used to share LEGAL, FREE music, LEGAL and FREE movies (like the documentary Steal This Film), used for software patches, linux distros and all manor of legal things.

Indeed - and I reckon those perfectly legitimate uses could easily account for ohhh... maybe 0.00001% of torrent traffic too.

kwikbreaks

anewhope wrote: »

In either case, I think you'd have to rely on the fact that either the demographic you're trying to infect either uses a certain media player or is quite naive.

I think you can certainly rely on the second and the first quite probably.

Redman30

rpsheridan wrote: »

Cheers for the advice, there is no way I am paying for music!! :eek:

I will have a look at some of your suggestions.

If you wont pay for it, you shouldn't expect to own it. It's theft and nothing less, from the hands of the artists themselves.

Cheapskate idiots like your good self deserve systems full of viruses.

weegie.geek

anewhope wrote: »

I've never tried it, but thinking things through it wouldn't be unfeasable to manipulate the header of the MP3 file to either try and coerce the user into downloading some form of fake codec that while looking legitimate actually wasn't, or a better (read more complicated) way would be to try and manipulate the header of the file to permit some form of overflow into memory which would permit 'executable' type behaviour to occur.

In either case, I think you'd have to rely on the fact that either the demographic you're trying to infect either uses a certain media player or is quite naive.

tl'dr: it'd be quite complicated.

There was an old version of Winamp that was vulnerable to a buffer overflow in id3 tags iirc, but that was years ago. I guess a bug like that could sneak in again, but generally the methods I mentioned earlier would be the best bet.

Mr_Oink

I would like to see the law on piracy REALLY tightened up with criminal prosecutions under the theft act. Deal with them as you would persistent shop lifters. It does *not* make it OK to steal things because it is relatively easy to do it. There is zero justification for it, despite the odd 'idealogical' rants from those that support this kind of thieving.

kwikbreaks

Coincidentally...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/22/malware_extortion_charges/

According to prosecutors, Mijangos used peer-to-peer file-sharing networks to infect his victims, inducing them to download and double-click on executable files that were disguised as popular songs.

Suggests that one was the song.mp3.exe trick possibly with a string of spaces before the .exe or possibly just relying on that ridiculous windows default option hiding the exrtension.

Probably the extorted videos are available on all good torrent indexing sites....

Esqui

rpsheridan wrote: »

Cheers for the advice, there is no way I am paying for music!! :eek:

I will have a look at some of your suggestions.

http://netlabels.org/ is a great site for free music

Equally, last.fm has a fair few songs free to download and stream

weegie.geek

Mr_Oink wrote: »

I would like to see the law on piracy REALLY tightened up with criminal prosecutions under the theft act. Deal with them as you would persistent shop lifters. It does *not* make it OK to steal things because it is relatively easy to do it. There is zero justification for it, despite the odd 'idealogical' rants from those that support this kind of thieving.

There's a major difference between shoplifting and copying. I shoplift, the owner loses the item forever. I copy, they MIGHT lose the chance to make money from me. Definitely not the same, and where do you draw the line?

If something isn't available to buy any more, and I download it, should I be prosecuted?

If I want to put my CDs on my MP3 player, is that OK? Is it then OK as a timesaving device for me to download them instead? If not, why not?

dogmaryxx

It would seem that Google is to blame for making piracy so easy.

http://news.techworld.com/sme/3227871/google-should-take-down-pirate-links-says-copyright-body/

Should we now censor the web for the satisfaction of the music industry?