The Sweden based site has faced prosecution and has had their web servers confiscated but a few days after they were shut-down, guess what they’re up again. The Pirate Bay.org is now considered to be one of the biggest if not the biggest Bit torrent tracker in the world that used to be run from an office which has long since disappeared due to anti-piracy moves by the government. The government has had it’s eye on the form since it was founded late 2003 when they started to do their business as a group of people who hated copyright laws. Since they were raided in 2004, the site has managed to remain open due to cat and mouse tactics which had the web servers moved overseas way out of the reach of the government and one server has even been placed into a bank vault hopefully to keep safe from actions towards it by the authorities. The pioneers have shifted to hard-wired laptops rather than wirelessly connected ones for they say they don’t trust the airwaves.
They have emphasized again and again that they are not doing any wrong due to the fact that the servers that they maintain and operate do not have any copyrighted content but merely mirrors of the bit torrents that are relevant to a search conduct. This has met repeated resistance from the government and anti-piracy groups in hopes of protecting the intellectual and copyright policies now being implemented all over the world. To date, the site has managed to remain open with the founders shifting locations to avoid being traced and as long as people want free stuff and don’t want to pay for them they will be there to serve the world’s bit-torrent downloading needs.
The founder’s motto, “ I take whatever I want because I can!”
Tags: Bit-torrents, Free-for-All, Free-music, Free-Video, Pirate-Bay
Categories: Applications, Downloading Legally, Freeware, Music, Podcasts, Resources
BBC, surprisingly has a quite extensive collection of downloadable and free music. BBC/easy/music has a wide selection of music from most genre’s. From the Blues, Soul, Reggae, Classical, classic Pop Rock and many more. This might be a new approach for the many News agencies around who have finally realized that their web sites used to be so boring people still read the paper. BBC is one of the most trusted news networks in the world and their many versions (TV, Music etc…) have a little to offer in terms of music. There are even Pod cast downloads of your favorite shows from the radio or the tele.
Internet Archives is another site with an extensive collection of music from all over the world which has been now declared a true library due to the ever growing collection of, well, everything. In digital form that is that they have accumulated since 1999 when the organization was founded. A non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide a facility for the storage of archives so that researchers can access them for use in their work fields of study. They even have a collection of archived web pages, many of which no longer exist. A story by the AP has remarked that when web pages die, they go to heaven in the bowels of the extensive collection. These records or archives are considered by them as a cultural record of our identity for all man to use and share. The said Internet Library has been officially declared a “Library Status”, thus giving it the right to get assistance from the federal government in the form of funding.
Tags: BBC, Free-music, Free-podcasts, Free-Videos, Internet-Archives, NGO
Categories: Downloading Legally, Freeware, Graphics, ipods, Mobile Phones, Music, Photo Images, Resources, Videos
Quickly searching on the net for downloads of videos and photos you get a lot of results that are not quite satisfactory. Don’t count on a download of the latest Alicia Keys MTV, you can watch and listen though. Well, wake up people nothing is free anymore on this here earth. There are however tons of free stuff form artists who aren’t quite on the top yet (Hey, it doesn’t mean that they’re not famous yet that they’re nobody) but are quite cool nonetheless.
Many sites say that they know how to get the hottest stuff from the charts and legally. I don’t know about the legally stuff but they’re all a form of piracy. You buy an audio CD and rip it into your PC then share it with friends over the internet? Read the legal statements on the packaging dudes as they say that the music or whatever that is in the disks you bought are for home and private use only, any public display or in other words anything else that you do with the stuff except listen if it’s an audio CD can be constituted as Piracy.
Enough of the legal stuff and let’s get back to those not-so-famous artists. You can go to the wide array of free stuff aspiring artists place in their MySpace pages and you are sure to find some very good stuff. Many of them really are good and quite promising and who knows that they could be the next ”Beyonce” or “Justin Timberlake”. Just be patient and enjoy yourself. Another thing, if you record stuff from internet radio, its still piracy!
Tags: Downloading Legally, Free-music, Free-Stuff, Free-Videos, Piracy
Categories: Downloading Legally, Music, Photo Images, Providers, Resources, Videos
The Sweden based site has faced prosecution and has had their web servers confiscated but a few days after they were shut-down, guess what they’re up again. The Pirate Bay.org is now considered to be one of the biggest if not the biggest Bit torrent tracker in the world that used to be run from an office which has long since disappeared due to anti-piracy moves by the government. The government has had it’s eye on the form since it was founded late 2003 when they started to do their business as a group of people who hated copyright laws. Since they were raided in 2004, the site has managed to remain open due to cat and mouse tactics which had the web servers moved overseas way out of the reach of the government and one server has even been placed into a bank vault hopefully to keep safe from actions towards it by the authorities. The pioneers have shifted to hard-wired laptops rather than wirelessly connected ones for they say they don’t trust the airwaves.
