iTunes sales "collapsing"

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by LordShiva
eMule is better

Personally, I prefer BitTorrent.

[Dinner]

eMule has more stuff but BitTorrent has fewer infected files, mislabled files, or just plan broken files. The problem with Torrents are that they are slow.

[MichaeltheGreat]

I've gotten a lot of sustained 100kbps+ downloads through Azureus, and occasional good bursts into the 180-200kbps range.

I initially had a device driver problem with my wireless USB card (It had problems with all torrent clients, but the worst behavior with Azureus), but I just switched to wired LAN for torrent downloads.

I've gotten somewhere north of 70 GB of downloads in the last couple of months.

[Kuciwalker]

I get the same with uTorrent consistently, and it uses up almost no resources :P

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse

God forbid I might have to buy a non-Apple PC in order to take full advantage of Microsoft's Windows OS, Apple's Boot Camp program aside.

Are you paying attention?

Microsoft doesn't make you buy a Microsoft computer to use Microsoft software. I'm not sure whose "fault" it was that Windows didn't run on Apple's hardware prior to the new generation, but Windows runs on any number of different hardware configurations built by any number of different companies. Apple does make you buy Apple hardware in order to either use the Mac OS or to use digital content you buy from their store.

It's just another example of Apple being a bunch of assmunches.

The point I'm trying to make is that if you buy a company's product, doesn't it make sense that they're going to want you to use the aforementioned product and and services related to it?

I suppose, however, that the larger (and more important) question revolves around DRM, something that I think is going to be the wave of the future as "creative sources" use pirating as an excuse to crack down on just about all forms of entertainment media. Frankly, I don't know if I like the idea of that either, since I'm an "old-fashioned" consumer who gets all of his music on CDs and then goes from there. It would suck if, having bought a CD, I had to play it on, say, a Sony CD player in order for it to work.

Yet, using that same logic, no one forces folks to buy an iPod. There's Microsoft's Zune and a host of other options ... but don't they pretty much all use some sort of DRM? It seems that unless you buy a CD, you're somehow going to be caught by DRM technology.

On a distantly related note, oh, how I miss being able to buy physical singles. There's rarely an entire album that I enjoy, but there are always individual songs worth buying. I supposed that's where I might benefit from an MP3 player ...

Gatekeeper

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I get the same with uTorrent consistently, and it uses up almost no resources :P

uTorrent was more of a pain in the ass with my wireless setup. Not as bad as Azureus, but much less stable than BitTorrent.

Once I moved to wire, I found Azureus slightly faster - I have connectivity issues from being in an old house and having marginal DSL conditions and relatively high noise on cable.

And I don't have to worry about resources.

[Kuciwalker]

Neither do I. On the other hand, I don't get connectivity issues because I'm on university ethernet

[MichaeltheGreat]

*****.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


Personally, I prefer BitTorrent.

BitTorrent is good for movies and larger applications, but for house music albums, livesets, etc. and the odd serial/crack or whatever, it can't beat eMule. Besides, it doesn't sort of rhyme with eMusic, which is what I was going for there

[snoopy369]

I have no problems easily converting iTunes files to non-drm mp3's ... it's a mite slower than just using them directly, but it's not that hard...