CricketMX.com

Mine is Winmx but now it is down...lots of fakes but..winmx was so great...when it was alive....you could find anything you would like weither it was video files music....pictures text files programs serials/cracks.........well just any file you wanted you had it right on winmx....or if you just liked meeting people you had tha Chat optinon ..it had lots of rooms........anything you wanted you had it in the tip of you fingers....so i guess winmx was my best p2p app...

I suppose the OpenNap networks now WinMX is down.

Bit Torrent

Not only can I find ANYTHING I want but I don't have to wait in line for it. Fake files are absolutely nonexistant. Download speeds are much higher than WinMX ever was.

WinMX, Soulseek, DC++, Emule (since day one I started using them)... Mind you... I've been without an internet connection for a year now. I still gotta find out what's up in the P2Pworld... Again!

yea i have no more computer at home so i havn't been able to use a computer....no internet no computer gaming, no music downloading, no app. pirating....no fun stuff like tha old days ...(my brother gots my computer in lincoln 3hours away from here)....so yea..but i still use the schools computers..and tha librarys or go to my friends computers...but they think ima virus and destroy they precius machines....even tho i kan get rid of all their stupid porn krap they gots on there.....so yea ...Winmx is still my Fav..... if it weren't from MX i probly wouldn't be here typeing a reply for this topic...

WinMX is my favorite p2p.
WinMX still works & so does the OpenNap protocol.
The RIAA thought they won, but they didn't count on the WinMX community resurrecting WinMX.

The same can be said about Bit Torrent as well. When Suprnova and Lokitorrent and a few others shut down after the RIAA/MPAA attacks people thought that was the end of BT. Much to their suprise more and more trackers started popping up all over the place. Many are still up and running strong with no signs of slowing down.

p2p users are a unique bunch of people. When someone tries to take away your means of enjoyment, you get mad and fight back.

Eventhough I gave up on WinMX a long time ago, i still respect the efforts of those trying to maintain its legacy, even if it is just for the chat rooms

It's nice see people standing up for their rights & fighting back against multinational corporations monopolies who only care about profits,who ripe of the artist that they sign, overcharge for there products, who sue their own costumers(sometimes dead people or children) for downloading what they call illegal file downloading using P2P, who try to rewrite laws to their advantage & introduce DRM technology that is buggy & has restriction for ex.. you maybe not be able to play a DRM CD in your car Stereo.
DRM also restricts you from doing what you want with your music that you paid for with hard earned cash.
if I want make mp3's or any other digital format files from my CD's that I buy I should have that right and not be restricted to DRM .wma format, restricted to how many copies I can make of the CD and/or any other form of restrictions.

They will never be able to stop P2P if they shutdown one P2P company or network, there will be another one created to replace it, the same with Torrent tracker sites, you shut one down another one will be up to replace it.
People are strange when it comes up to fighting for there rights, but when it comes to something they love & enjoy there will fight you to their grave.

P2P isn't illegal it's what you download from it.
Multinational corporations want to people to believe it is illegal but it's not,they also like to label us P2P users who are also some of their biggest costumers as criminal's even though we are not.

Not everyone downloads copyright material, some people do share freeware /open source software or free games, music mp3's & music videos that are freely available to download from band's /artist's sites, record label sites, free movies or media file clips, radio shows, documents,research papers, free pdf files or free ebooks & pictures that you can download for free online.


P.S> WinMX isn't just a chatroom client you can still download from it.

nice long speach mr. p2p..... but you mentions DRM is that a diff. type of audio format..or some like a CD??? dont' think im stupid..but just havn't hurd of it..

It's technology That the greedy bullies RIAA/MPAA created to restrict people's rights to copy CD's/DVD's in any digital format that they want to on to their PC or how they can play it, restricts what you can do with the files you download from online services like Napster that use DRM formats.

From webopedia:

DRM

Short for Digital Rights Management, a system for protecting the copyrights of data circulated via the Internet or other digital media by enabling secure distribution and/or disabling illegal distribution of the data. Typically, a DRM system protects intellectual property by either encrypting the data so that it can only be accessed by authorized users or marking the content with a digital watermark or similar method so that the content can not be freely distributed.

From the Electronic Frontier Foundation website:

The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User's Guide to DRM in Online Music


There is an increasing variety of options for purchasing music online, but also a growing thicket of confusing usage restrictions. You may be getting much less than the services promise.

Many digital music services employ digital rights management (DRM) also known as "copy protection" that prevents you from doing things like using the portable player of your choice or creating remixes. Forget about breaking the DRM to make traditional uses like CD burning and so forth. Breaking the DRM or distributing the tools to break DRM may expose you to liability under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) even if you're not making any illegal uses.

In other words, in this brave new world of "authorized music services," law-abiding music fans often get less for their money than they did in the old world of CDs (or at least, the world before record companies started crippling CDs with DRM, too). Unfortunately, in an effort to attract customers, these music services try to obscure the restrictions they impose on you with clever marketing.

This guide "translates" the marketing messages by the major services, giving you the real deal rather than spin. Understanding how DRM and the DMCA pose a danger to your rights will help you to make fully informed purchasing decisions. Before buying DRM-crippled music from any service, you should consider the following examples and be sure to understand how the service might limit your ability to make lawful use of the music you purchase.

Read the guide here for the facts & restrictions of online DRM digital formats.AAC, .WMA ect.. & online legal download serrvices.

Read more from the EFF's site about DRM here.

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