On a point of information. I have just downloaded a copy of Poisoned, which, unlike Limewire Pro, was free of charge. I've found it fast and reliable, at least as a Mac OS X user. It requires little or no sepcialist knowledge about settings, and it appears to perform with the same speed I have seen my friends achieve with P2P software specifically designed for PCs. Moreover, it searches several P2P networks simultaneously, giving slightly (though not remarkably) better search results.

As for your extraordinary claim to possession of the moral high ground (in reference to my nefarious plot to infringe copyright): what a piece of cynical cant. I haven't seen a single piece of music in any search that did not manifestly infringe the spirit, if not the letter, of copyright. (As a publisher I know a little something about the subject.) What a shameful pretence you make. At least I can say that I'm looking for recordings of people who are long dead. And I make no apologies for searching out rare recordings since I spend a few thousand a year buying any decent recordings I can find dating back as far as 1910 and sometimes earlier. Downloading from the internet is a last resort for me, primarily since the quality is generally so poor. I certainly wouldn't pretend that other people had no right to share or download recordings that were precious to them. On the other hand, I suspect that most of the users on this network can find the music they're looking for just as easily on racks of discounted CDs at the Walmart checkout.
My final comments to this forum are:
Tut, tut, pshaw and a firm harrumphhhh!
What !!! No pffffffffffffffffffffffffffft ?


No cant.
References to attempts to download or share copyrighted material, or solicitations to assist in same, are not allowed.

I'll be nice and avoid the [Red]...

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Edited to comply with the House Rules.
Warez, copyright violation, or any other illegal activity may NOT be linked or expressed in any form.


'Remasters' would definitely imply copyrighted material.
Whether an artist is deceased or not, there is still normally someone retaining the copyright to the recorded material.

This is completely standard practice in use in the vast majority of Forum sites which are related to filesharing activities.

The great majority of members here respect this 'rule'.


As far as 'Poisoned' is concerned, either you and/or rubaiyat may wish to speak to those individuals responsible for the client and ask them if they would like to initiate a 'Poisoned Forum' here...
This would be a far better alternative to posting references to it in LimeWire Forums (or any other client specific forum here).

I say that last bit making the assumption that it is a client which is participating in the Gnutella Network. Not being a Mac user nor having investigated the client further, I don't know if it is a participant in Gnutella Network or not.


btw... That is very good news that your harrumphhhhs are firm !

As the years advance, loose harrumphhhhs can be a most embarrasing problem.