An Online Music Exploration

In today's world, no one has CD's or albums or cassettes or 8-tracks anymore. That would be a waste, right? We have digital music formats like mp3's and wav's and hard drives that seem to be reaching the infinite amount of storage for these formats! Guess what? That's awesome!

Unfortunately, after the Napster breakdown and an increased awareness of copyright laws and protection, users now have to pay for songs they download from the Internet. But like any good American law, there is a loop hole!

As I hope to attend law school after this academic year, I've taken an interest lately in finding some of the programs that allow users to find those loopholes and use them for their own benefit.  My last post is very evident of that with the idea of BitTorrent and easy access to blockbuster movies.

The programs that follow can actually be designated into three groups: programs for users that have a lot of music that they want to access at every computer and programs for users that want to accumulate a lot of music, and lastly a program that does both...kind of.

First, a program for those users who have a ton of music and want it available while they are at work, on vacation or just checking their e-mail from a computer that is not their own.

Personally, I am blessed enough to be dating a wonderful girl who's father happened to attain an external hard drive with more (organized) music than I even knew existed. In turn, I happened to receive a copy of this hard drive as a gift! Unfortunately, I would say it is more than a hassle to try to carry the external hard drive around to listen to the massive variety of music. I was, however, fortunate enough to stumble across an article at Lifehacker that talks about a program that would solve my issues. The program is Anywhere.FM and it is on my list of programs to utilize to the fullest extent. The article explains all that this program can do!

Secondly, the program for those of you who want to create a library and not pay a fortune for it. SpiralFrog is currently in a beta testing program that allows you to download music at no cost to you. I just received confirmation that I am a lucky one to test out the beta and it's great! It's a small, simple download and the database of music is HUGE! Just enter your e-mail address in and hope for an invitation in a week or so.

Warning: make sure you have a big hard drive because there is a lot of music for FREE!

And the last program is called Deezer. I've been using this program for a few days and I love it. This online program allows you to listen to all of your favorite newer songs (1980's until now) without actually downloading them. They are streamed online so you don't have to worry about filling your hard drive (this is great for me!) You must register with Deezer and then let the playlist creation begin! Go nuts!

That's my quick overview of the online music programs that are worth noting! I could be wrong and there could be more! Prove me wrong!

Have a great day!

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One of the Greatest Sites...EVER!

When I was checking out some of my favorite sites, I just happened to come across a great site!

BitTorrent has been making news over the past few weeks on some of the major tech sites. Because no one user distributes or owns a copy of a movie, tv show or cartoon, BitTorrent is basically the loop hole in the copyright laws that have been stirring up the world since the collapse of the original Napster.

The problem with BitTorrent is that it requires you to find a download manager you like and then you have to search out for the pieces (torrents) that you want.

There are 2 issues here:

1. It's a lot of work and technological understanding for nothing that is guaranteed to work.
2. Unless you have a huge hard drive (or two), you will fill it with media to a point of crashing.

Now what if there was a site that eliminates all of this and allows you to watch movies directly on your browser without using hard drive space? What if you didn't have to search out for the pieces but instead they were listed right there for you to click through each piece of the media?

Well now there is. The site is called VideoHybrid and it offers all of the above!

VideoHybrid has an ever growing list of new and older blockbuster movies (i.e. Transformers, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Simpsons Movie, The Godfather, etc.) as well TV shows, anime and cartoons.

All of these pieces of media are divided into parts and broken down to about 30 minute sections and the quality is not high definition, but these are still highly desired movies for free with no risk at the moment!

Give the site a try and you can thank me later!

Let me know your thoughts, leave some comments, link up, subscribe and enjoy! I could be wrong in thinking that this is one of the greatest sites on the web.

Prove me wrong and have a great day!

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One of the Greatest Sites...EVER!

When I was checking out some of my favorite sites, I just happened to come across a great site!

BitTorrent has been making news over the past few weeks on some of the major tech sites. Because no one user distributes or owns a copy of a movie, tv show or cartoon, BitTorrent is basically the loop hole in the copyright laws that have been stirring up the world since the collapse of the original Napster.

The problem with BitTorrent is that it requires you to find a download manager you like and then you have to search out for the pieces (torrents) that you want.

There are 2 issues here:

1. It's a lot of work and technological understanding for nothing that is guaranteed to work.
2. Unless you have a huge hard drive (or two), you will fill it with media to a point of crashing.

Now what if there was a site that eliminates all of this and allows you to watch movies directly on your browser without using hard drive space? What if you didn't have to search out for the pieces but instead they were listed right there for you to click through each piece of the media?

Well now there is. The site is called VideoHybrid and it offers all of the above!

VideoHybrid has an ever growing list of new and older blockbuster movies (i.e. Transformers, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Simpsons Movie, The Godfather, etc.) as well TV shows, anime and cartoons.

All of these pieces of media are divided into parts and broken down to about 30 minute sections and the quality is not high definition, but these are still highly desired movies for free with no risk at the moment!

Give the site a try and you can thank me later!

Let me know your thoughts, leave some comments, link up, subscribe and enjoy! I could be wrong in thinking that this is one of the greatest sites on the web.

Prove me wrong and have a great day!

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One of the Greatest Sites...EVER!

When I was checking out some of my favorite sites, I just happened to come across a great site!

BitTorrent has been making news over the past few weeks on some of the major tech sites. Because no one user distributes or owns a copy of a movie, tv show or cartoon, BitTorrent is basically the loop hole in the copyright laws that have been stirring up the world since the collapse of the original Napster.

The problem with BitTorrent is that it requires you to find a download manager you like and then you have to search out for the pieces (torrents) that you want.

There are 2 issues here:

1. It's a lot of work and technological understanding for nothing that is guaranteed to work.
2. Unless you have a huge hard drive (or two), you will fill it with media to a point of crashing.

Now what if there was a site that eliminates all of this and allows you to watch movies directly on your browser without using hard drive space? What if you didn't have to search out for the pieces but instead they were listed right there for you to click through each piece of the media?

Well now there is. The site is called VideoHybrid and it offers all of the above!

VideoHybrid has an ever growing list of new and older blockbuster movies (i.e. Transformers, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Simpsons Movie, The Godfather, etc.) as well TV shows, anime and cartoons.

All of these pieces of media are divided into parts and broken down to about 30 minute sections and the quality is not high definition, but these are still highly desired movies for free with no risk at the moment!

Give the site a try and you can thank me later!

Let me know your thoughts, leave some comments, link up, subscribe and enjoy! I could be wrong in thinking that this is one of the greatest sites on the web.

Prove me wrong and have a great day!

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