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Peer to Peer Networks
Before you do let me offer alternatives that are safer. Note that the popular limewire client has spyware. To ignore scroll down!
Be sure to checkout first:
http://music.yahoo.com/
http://www.mtv.com/
http://www.allmusic.com/
http://www.youtube.com/
http://pandora.com/
http://entertainment.lycos.com/music/
http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm
http://www.streamload.com/
Winamp
http://www.winamp.com/player/free.php
has free shoutcast TV and Audio Stations
http://www.shoutcast.com/
Check out this page on how to watch it in winamp
http://www.jimmyr.com/winamp_shoutcast.php
Checkout this site to watch tv online
http://mediahopper.com/
For free music videos and audio shorts
If worried about legal stuff, for paid cheap music try:
http://www.rhapsody.com/
http://www.itunes.com/
http://www.napster.com/
http://www.mp3.com/
http://www.real.com/musicstore/
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=type:music_v...
http://baseportal.com/baseportal/goodsounds/howto
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Before thinking about downloading be sure to read the legal implications of downloading in the wikipedia p2p article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_to_peer#Legal_co...
Be sure to have a descent spyware and virus program or you can scan online free in multiple sources. Make sure you know about safety because many peer to peer networks have viruses. The link below has many resources including free antiviruses.
http://www.jimmyr.com/security.php
Before you Start downloading You Should know how to configure your router. To do so check here
http://www.portforward.com/
Currently there are two main p2p sources
BitTorrent and File Sharing Programs. To use bit torrent you need to download a client like azureus or bitcomet
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php
http://www.bittorrent.com/
http://www.bitcomet.com/
Bit Torrent in Order of Popularity:
http://www.thepiratebay.org/
http://www.torrentspy.com/
http://www.mininova.org/
http://www.suprnova.org/
http://isohunt.com/
http://www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/
Programs In Order Of Popularity
http://www.emule-project.org/
Emule is the most downloaded program in sourceforge history
http://www.download.com/LimeWire/3000-2166_4-10494...
Limewire is popular among kids (spyware)
http://www.frostwire.com/
Frostwire is an alternative to limewire
http://cabos.sourceforge.jp/
Free filesharing
http://www.gnucleus.com/Gnucleus/
Another Gnutella client
http://aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net/
Ares
http://phex.kouk.de/mambo/
Phex is an alternative to bearshare and uses the gnutella network regarded as "safer".
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group...
Shareaza
http://www.download.com/1200-2025-5140766.html?par...
Imesh
http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/
Direct Connect++
http://snail.pc.cz/StrongDC/indexen.htm
Strong Direct Connect
Morpheus (spyware)
http://morpheus.com/
Warez p2p (spyware)
http://www.warezclient.com/
WinMX Doesnt Exist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinMX
Sourceforge top Filesharing projects
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?...
Wikipedia p2p list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:File_sharing...
Sourceforge Free Software List (often p2p resources)
http://sourceforge.net/top/toplist.php?type=downlo...
Free Music From Archive.org
http://www.archive.org/details/audio
Programs
To make sure all video/audio files work try these:
Media Player Classic Is Fast, free and Much better than Windows Media PLayer
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group...
Mplayer
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
VCL
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
XP codec Pack
http://www.xpcodecpack.com/
Real Alternative
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternati...
Divx Free
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DivX_Free.htm
Xvid
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Nic_XviD_Codec...
QuickTime Alternative
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alte...
G Spot will tell you what a video or audio file is encoded in
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
To open 7z, rar, ace, tar, gz or other formats
http://www.7-zip.org/
To create and mix your own audio try
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
To create and mix your own video files try
http://www.virtualdub.org/
For consol games try
http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms.html
http://www.rom-world.com/dl.php?name=Super_Nintend...
http://www.freeroms.com/
http://www.everyvideogame.com/ (nes only)
http://sgc.jandar.net/ (translate language)
For large Consol Games (cds) peer to peer is like the only option.
Check out sourceforges free top games
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?...
Others that have been recommended
http://www.allofmp3.com/
http://www.garageband.com/
http://www.soundclick.com/
http://www.mp3shits.com/
http://www.emp3world.com/
http://music.msn.com/
http://www.isound.com/
http://music.download.com/
http://www.mp3dimension.com/
http://www.yourmp3.net/
http://www.mp3shits.com/
http://www.maxalbums.com/
http://www.seekasong.com/
http://www.mp3-center.org/
http://www.insound.com/mp3/mp3s.php
http://cooltoad.com/
http://somafm.com/
http://www.emusic.com/
http://www.epitonic.com/
http://www.kazaa.com/
http://videopimp.org/
http://firstlisten.ifihadadime.com/
http://www.kohit.net/
Have fun.
http://www.jimmyr.com/Best_Peer_to_Peer_Networks.p...
Limewire and WinDX, only be warned, get carry of heavily. do no longer over do it, because the song comes from different customers and in the experience that they have got secret agent ware or an epidemic on their gadget and also you get carry of the song. that's a probability for you to deliver that an infection onto your computer. So I severe recommend get carry of little or no, and continually run an epidemic test on the document until eventually now taking section in it.
Bit torrent.