bittorrent, warez, filestube..you name it. For every mininova shut down, a kickasstorrents shows up. Silly judge.
I’ve used limewire for YEARS, but it took me two months to notice. ;)
The reason I am responding is that this shutdown forced me to go the Torrent route, which many have recommended. Well, I did, and all I can say is “OMG!!!”
I discovered uTorrent.
It took ten minutes to try to figure it out, but once I did, I was stunned at what I found. I’ve been trying to get bits and pieces of all of the albums by Firesign Theater for YEARS. I go to uT and almost immediately find a single download that includes, in FOLDER/FILE format, every album released by firesign theater AND the splintered groups (Proctor/Bergman, etc.)
Then, on a lark, I decide to try to find a movie that I cannot find anywhere. Even Netflix doesn’t have it. It is a George C. Scott movie called “They Might Be Giants” from around 1971. Well, I finished the “high rez” download yesterday.
And right now I am downloading Vanishing Point and Two Lane Blacktop.
Oh, and I used limewire to get Quadrophenia and Pulse, but each downloaded as a single file. With uT, I get each as a folder, and all the songs as individual files! And they are 320 kb mp3s, thank you very much.
I’m now GLAD limewire was taken down. It motivated me to join the 21st century.