2008 Woodie Awards
Lime Wire provides free music unlike iTunes
Martinez, Chanel
Issue date: 3/8/07 Section: The Scene
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About 10 years ago, we were elated to get the newest cassette that our favorite band came out with. Even then, people found ways around spending the money by recording off the radio or each other. Now, it's as easy as the click of a mouse to download your favorite band's entire career.
Music downloading sites have become a major part of the mainstream society. It grew from the humble beginnings of Napster, to Kazaa, to Morpheus; the list is pretty much endless thanks to the invention of the Internet.
The new favorite of the bunch is called Lime Wire. You can buy the full version, Lime Wire Pro, for a single payment of $18 but most people choose to download the free version.
It's as simple as googling "Lime Wire" into the search bar, clicking on the top result and clicking "download now." Now we are in no way condoning ripping songs off the Internet without paying but with something this easy, most people find it hard to resist.
Lime Wire does advertise their Lime Wire Pro version and the installation still takes the same amount of time to load. Within a matter of minutes (depending on your connection) you can be linked to thousands, maybe even millions of media files. Most use the P2P (peer to peer) site to download songs in mp3 format and one can download a range of other media files such as video and pictures.
When asked about his experiences using Lime Wire, second year Chabot student Michael Gonzales said, "It's a good site to use because a lot of the time you can find stuff that is really rare, like live shows and underground bands." This is half the draw of free downloading sites, but I would have to say the other half is that it's free.
There has been a bit of controversy surrounding the allowance of such free versions of music downloading sites. It has led to heavier concentration of artists on such sites as iTunes whose software can be downloaded for free but charges for the media downloaded. Even though iTunes is the more moral way of obtaining your music, people find it convienient to use Lime Wire instead.
Music downloading sites have become a major part of the mainstream society. It grew from the humble beginnings of Napster, to Kazaa, to Morpheus; the list is pretty much endless thanks to the invention of the Internet.
The new favorite of the bunch is called Lime Wire. You can buy the full version, Lime Wire Pro, for a single payment of $18 but most people choose to download the free version.
It's as simple as googling "Lime Wire" into the search bar, clicking on the top result and clicking "download now." Now we are in no way condoning ripping songs off the Internet without paying but with something this easy, most people find it hard to resist.
Lime Wire does advertise their Lime Wire Pro version and the installation still takes the same amount of time to load. Within a matter of minutes (depending on your connection) you can be linked to thousands, maybe even millions of media files. Most use the P2P (peer to peer) site to download songs in mp3 format and one can download a range of other media files such as video and pictures.
When asked about his experiences using Lime Wire, second year Chabot student Michael Gonzales said, "It's a good site to use because a lot of the time you can find stuff that is really rare, like live shows and underground bands." This is half the draw of free downloading sites, but I would have to say the other half is that it's free.
There has been a bit of controversy surrounding the allowance of such free versions of music downloading sites. It has led to heavier concentration of artists on such sites as iTunes whose software can be downloaded for free but charges for the media downloaded. Even though iTunes is the more moral way of obtaining your music, people find it convienient to use Lime Wire instead.
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