P2P?

Alright, I've heard all kinds of news about the organization "DigiProtect", and how they're charging English people an outrageous amount of money for every German porn film and German song they download. As it turns out, the company that hired them only wanted $50 for stolen films. Apparently they were misrepresented and...

and anyway, that's not why I'm here. I read the threads on another forum, and people responded to the music downloading with "that's what he gets for using P2P".

But as apposed to what exactly? How else would I illegally download music? Frostwire is all I use. Requesting songs on a website takes too long.

So what I'm asking is, what's the alternative to P2P when downloading music?

So what I'm asking is, what's the alternative to P2P when downloading music?

paying for it?

So what I'm asking is, what's the alternative to P2P when downloading music?

paying for it?

And if the music is super-rare stuff from another country that would cost me $40 to buy one album?

And hey! Is that your picture? I always figured you looked more like that guy from Zoolander.

itunes, napster... i dont know any others oh yes THE MUSIC STORE

itunes = shit, apple, DRM, restricted, defective by design, bloated
napster = lol no

frostwire = points for using frostwire instead of limewire, but it still uses the gnutella network. Since P2P depends on the other people, it's best to follow the trends. Torrents are all the rage nowadays, and superior to gnutella imo. You might want to try cabos over frostwire.

Torrents = assuming you know how torrents work, search here, here or here for torrents. Specialty trackers exist, but you'll find those as you go along.

uTorrent is the most popular torrent client. Alternatives are Halite or hTorrent which is a modified uTorrent with all the spying features removed.

You could also try your luck with good old normal http too.

itunes = shit, apple, DRM, restricted, defective by design, bloated

itunes may be ditching DRM tomorrow. (rumored)
But yes, up until right now there is no reason to use itunes unless you have an apple product, if you do then its actually not bloated at all.

I didn't realize that people used bittorrents for common music trading. I'll look into it.