Torrents.

music_phantom13 · 11-05-2009, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by noise

it's a vicious circle. rapidshare was the leader for many years, so that's where links are, so that's where people buy premium accounts, so that's where they upload new content...

but seriously. 7 euros a month. take a sandwich to work instead of going out to and you've got it covered. no wait times, fast downloads, and support for download managers.

Heh I'm not sure how kindly my work would take to that...

Really though, I think you're right about that cycle. But I still don't understand why more people aren't switching to mediafire; I mean I'm sure a lot of people that are uploading and downloading don't have a premium account, and I'll take 2 or 3 MB/s over 150 kb/s any day. Mediafire has such a nice interface too, and your stuff stays instead of disappearing after however long it is or whatever it is with rapidshare.

noise · 11-05-2009, 10:38 AM

there are more premium users out there than you think. for the files i have hosted, i typically get 1 premium to 2 free. anyway so many people still use RS that it's easy to get points, which means it's easy for me to get free extensions to my account. again with the cycle. these guys know what they're doing

LoathsomePete · 11-05-2009, 10:55 AM

Yeah but it's going against the whole point of downloading stuff for free. If I'm going to spend money to acquire music I'd rather just give it to the artists than people hosting a download site.

noise · 11-05-2009, 11:03 AM

fair enough. but you have to admit, 7 euros a month won't buy you very much music...

besides i tend to download a lot of HD video as well. good luck grabbing a 15 gig movie as a free user!

to each his own obviously, but i'll keep paying for rapidshare as long as it's around. any album i want is less than 30 seconds away - to me, that's worth paying a few bucks for

Schizotypic · 11-05-2009, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by noise

fair enough. but you have to admit, 7 euros a month won't buy you very much music...

besides i tend to download a lot of HD video as well. good luck grabbing a 15 gig movie as a free user!

to each his own obviously, but i'll keep paying for rapidshare as long as it's around. any album i want is less than 30 seconds away - to me, that's worth paying a few bucks for

Yeah but when demonoid was up any discography I wanted, even the rarest, was a search and a click away.

Kamikazi Kat · 11-05-2009, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by NumberNineDream

It only allows me one download a day.

Same here... Although megaupload used to allow me to download as many files as I wanted with no limits for a few months for no reason, then it suddenly stopped.

I used to use torrents a lot for album downloads, but now I've just been using blogspots and upload sites for everything. I'll usually use torrents for videos, although I've been slowly finding more ways to download movies and TV shows through upload sites.

~~Farfisa~~ · 11-05-2009, 08:34 PM

I used to be part of a torrent site called PureLiveGigs, mostly to get some Spacemen 3 divids. It's another private torrent site, but it's a hella lot easier to get in (no invite required), but you need to keep your seed/leech ratio up to atleast 25% which isn't too bad.

noise · 11-05-2009, 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Schizotypic

Yeah but when demonoid was up any discography I wanted, even the rarest, was a search and a click away.

i guess it depends on the music you like, and the quality you prefer. i found deomonoid to be mediocre at best for music, especially for (what i consider to be) rare stuff...

Singo · 11-06-2009, 02:07 AM

For torrent tracker I use Google... seriously :P

And some local private trackers which have great DL speed because of dedicated users. For public you can also find torrents with torrent search engines like isohunt.com.

music_phantom13 · 11-06-2009, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Schizotypic

Yeah but when demonoid was up any discography I wanted, even the rarest, was a search and a click away.

Really? I found that probably over half of what I was looking for wasn't on Demonoid... files were usually seeded pretty well, and dled pretty fast, so that was a plus. People uploaded a decent amount of fake torrents/viruses, so that was a bit of a problem.

11-05-2009, 10:38 AM	#32 (permalink)
noise thirsty ears Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Boulder Posts: 742	there are more premium users out there than you think. for the files i have hosted, i typically get 1 premium to 2 free. anyway so many people still use RS that it's easy to get points, which means it's easy for me to get free extensions to my account. again with the cycle. these guys know what they're doing __________________ my flac collection

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LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	Yeah but it's going against the whole point of downloading stuff for free. If I'm going to spend money to acquire music I'd rather just give it to the artists than people hosting a download site. __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too

11-05-2009, 11:03 AM	#34 (permalink)
noise thirsty ears Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Boulder Posts: 742	fair enough. but you have to admit, 7 euros a month won't buy you very much music... besides i tend to download a lot of HD video as well. good luck grabbing a 15 gig movie as a free user! to each his own obviously, but i'll keep paying for rapidshare as long as it's around. any album i want is less than 30 seconds away - to me, that's worth paying a few bucks for __________________ my flac collection

11-06-2009, 02:07 AM	#39 (permalink)
Singo Groupie Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 6	For torrent tracker I use Google... seriously :P And some local private trackers which have great DL speed because of dedicated users. For public you can also find torrents with torrent search engines like isohunt.com. __________________ sing, sing, sing...

11-05-2009, 08:34 PM	#37 (permalink)
~~Farfisa~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,773	I used to be part of a torrent site called PureLiveGigs, mostly to get some Spacemen 3 divids. It's another private torrent site, but it's a hella lot easier to get in (no invite required), but you need to keep your seed/leech ratio up to atleast 25% which isn't too bad.