Alternatives To File-Sharing, Torrenting and other Illegal Transfers: Video Edition

In the second edition of the Alternatives to file-sharing, torrenting, and other illegal transfers, we will examine the video side. Let’s just put it out in the open: college students love to illegally download and exchange media. Wide open, blazing broadband going to dorms and apartments provides a fantastic avenue for obtaining music, movies and pictures in a less-than-legal fashion. I was going to write a post about copyright law and its impact of college students, but it is pretty boring. While this series of posts will provide a little information about the copyright laws that deal with filesharing, it will mainly focus on legal alternatives to consume media.

 

Alternatives To File-Sharing, Torrenting and other Illegal Transfers: Music Edition

Let’s just put it out in the open. College students love to illegally download and exchange media. Wide open, blazing broadband going to dorms and apartments provides a fantastic avenue for obtaining music, movies and pictures in a less-than-legal fashion. I was going to write a post about copyright law and its impact of college students, but it is pretty boring. While this series of posts will provide a little information about the copyright laws that deal with filesharing, it will mainly focus on legal alternatives to consume media.  The first edition of Alternatives to File-Sharing, Torrenting and other Illegal Transfers will deal with music.

Music

Maybe you pirate music from services like Limewire, Bittorrent, Kazaa and other p2p networks. Some of you have noticed the drawbacks from using such networks: your computer is slower than frozen molasses and, in extreme cases, you may even have been subpoenaed by the Court System at the behest of the RIAA. Here is a list of alternatives, some free and some paid.